Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-25558572-20140516041734

If cliches sometimes worked, they wouldn't be cliches. I'm not convinced you understand what "cliche" means.

Our previous rules were based off a very stringent system anyway, this is just completing the circle. We encourage quality writing, and our website is so fucking clogged up with crappypastas that it's not even funny. Some cliches work, some stop working after getting used too often. Also, you can only have so many cliches before it starts to get riddiculous.

Also, they have to be used RIGHT. I've seen some creepypastas where they go, "Blood! Blood! MORE BLOOD!" and I'm like, "Okay, we get it, there's blood!"

Or when a cliche is out of place. For example, a molestor in a story where the rest of the story does not relate to the molestor.

That's kinda like how in movies now, people make light of most horror cliches these days. People are more desensitized to blood these days (look at Game of Thrones... there are KIDS who wach that show!)

It's getting harder to really scare people.

It's harder to write about, but psychological horror really is scarier than physical horror. The one time I managed to create something that I thought was genuinely frightening had no real violence, just a very unnerving atmosphere. Gory bits can be very effective, but they should add to the scare instead of being the scares themselves.