Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24662533-20141220153720/@comment-25052433-20150122225814

I don't want to single out any pasta that is currently on the site, so I will avoid naming a specific story. Instead, I will name some of the elements, that if I encounter in a pasta, I pretty much start a slow decline in my opinion.

-Vomiting from fear. This is a common trend, and so unrealistic that it just seems like a cheap attempt to throw a quick and shallow plot device out there. The line in Squidward's Suicide, where the character says "I vomited on the floor." Just ruined the story for me right then and there. Unless the character is mentioned of having a stomach flu at the start of the story, or happens to be drunk at the time of the horror, there really is no reason for them to vomit.

-Mentioning Creepypasta in a Creepypasta. This is really just more of a personal peeve of mine. I can't say why it bothers me, or how it's even a bad method, but when I do see it, I just don't like it.

-Plot Holes. I hate it when a writer just throws in a plot device in order to advance the plot on the fly. For example, a character who's been in the story for several paragraphs, and just at the moment that he needs it, it's revealed that he has a gun in his back pocket. It's a cheap shortcut that never translates well.

There are plenty of other little tropes that can appear in pastas that annoy me, but those are the three big ones for me. Keep in mind, this doesn't include the general stuff that bugs most all of us who edit, like bad grammar, spelling or spacing.