Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5597060-20170116234511/@comment-6794436-20170125220819

You know what, you're right about that first part. The author should take initiative if he really wants a reason for deletion. However, deleting the pasta immediately leaves no room for other wiki contributors to leave their criticism and ideas to benefit the pasta.

I spent the majority of my time in the creepypasta community on a site designed for Gaming Creepypastas, and I can tell you that the gaming pastas like the ones you mentioned (like REAL shitpastas) were few and far between (aside from when FNaF first came out but that was to be expected). And once again, what's the issue with just clicking the delete button on the bad ones and keeping the good ones up? What, are those 3 seconds of your life too precious?

Yes, I could post a gaming pasta somewhere else (hypothetically, I don't plan on making any gaming creepypastas any time soon) but then it would get little to no recognition and definitely no fan fare. The Lost Episode genre is a different story, because I guarantee you that I could come up with a very good lost episode pasta easily (or at least a decent one), and I'm no amazing writer, so imagine what some of the better authors could do. And once again, what's the issue with just deleting the bad ones? The terribad writers aren't going to look at the rules anyways. Chances are, the authors that are that bad are gonna post them regardless, so you might as well just let the good authors have the ability to redeem those genres.

I just don't think you can spin a positive light on completely banning and restricting a genre and I don't really see a valid reason for outright deleting a chat room.