Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-24376429-20140209233715

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote: Lil' Miss Rarity wrote: That would be great if our wiki was staked the right way with the new content being the at the top and the old at the bottom, this way you'd have a nice thing to flip through in order to "observe" our history. Sadly this is not the case. When the wiki was started it is clear from what records we do have that the founders had little to no idea on how to actually build a successful wiki. This has come back to bite us numerous times already and will continue to do so. This site was built on poor foundations and is thus a poor site with terrible structure and policies regarding content. This is in part due to the fact that the creators never sat down and figured out a plan, but just started building.

TL;DR you can't construct a great building on poor foundations and expect it to not have serious issues.

The quality of historic creepypastas has less than nothing to do with the site's structure or its policies on current submission, so I don't know what connection you're trying to draw there. You seem to have it in your head that a few bad famous creepypastas are the source of all this site's problems and that deleting them will make said problems just go away.

I also don't understand where people are getting confused here. We're talking about two--count 'em, two--issues here, as per the title of this thread. We're talking about

- What level our quality standards for current submissions being added as articles right now should be, and

- How we should handle historic creepypastas that may not meet said standards

As I thought I made clear in my previous post, I'm all in favor of setting quality standards for current submissions and rejecting those which fail to meet said standards. This applies to submissions made after these standards are put into effect.

As for articles already in existence, most of them are pretty inconsequential--I don't really care if someone wants to go through and filter through the low-qualities or not. But the legends--I mean the LEGENDS that have left an irrefutable mark on the very history of creepypasta, like Slender, Sonic.exe, Jeff, Squidward's Suicide, etc. should be archived and maintained. THIS APPLIES ONLY TO THE ORIGINAL POSTINGS. I am not saying anything about any spin-offs, followers, or subculture, nor am I saying that they should go here or anywhere. By "legends," I'm also not referring to some arbitrary posting that has been fadding the past couple weeks or something that may have won CPotM--those can face the same standards as everything else. But no good can come from deleting those very few articles which have firmly established a place in history, for better or for worse. There is a tie between the old articles and the sites organization. As I mentioned earlier this site was built with little to no knowledge of how to run a database/wiki. These pages were more or less placed on the site and had more content heaped ontop of them. This leads to a stack of... well everything. Some of it good, some of it not so much.

When this site was first started it was set to be a database of horror stories for people to read. Stories from authors like Poe or Kafka, not a dumping ground for O.C. There were, atleast some standards and rules regarding what could and could not be posted, and over time they were relaxed bit by bit. Which has thus turned this site into a dumping ground for poorly written stories and hacked up, beaten down, and over-recycled themes such as haunted files and killers driven over the edge by bullies. And that's just the begining. This site is full, and I mean absolutely full of images about how "kawaii" some character from a story is.

Underneath all of this... shit are the actual creepypastas. To most people creepy and scary go hand in hand. This, however, is wrong. Creepy is a feeling you get when something is just not right. Much like an innocent teddy bear with monsterous dentures or an old, dilapidated doll sitting up on the floor of a long adandoned building. Scary is terror, the adreneline rushing through your body, that flight or fight response. Scary is sudden, unexpected, and nerve wrenching. Scary is waking up to a killer on your bed, scary is being attacked by an unknown assailant.

Most of these stories exploit fear, they try and scare you. But most of all, these stories aren't creepy.