Board Thread:Site Policy/@comment-5371501-20130514124911/@comment-9275643-20130515085907

These rules are nitpicky. Let me start by saying that I'm not trying to be rude and I know you guys don't have it easy wrangling all these submissions, but with rules this specific and numerous for only a single story type, you're making your own job more difficult. I wouldn't envy anyone who had to comb through every haunted file story to make sure that all 15 of these rules have been followed (or be in a position to take down a good pasta because the main character didn't download the file "on purpose")

1-2: I would prefer wordcount restrictions over formatting restrictions.

4:  Ellipses are an accepted form of punctuation. It's like banning semicolons. I also can't imagine a story that would facilitate the use of EXACTLY ONE ellipsis, but not any more than that.

5: Why?

8: So the file can't be anything that can be looked at, watched, read, or run as a program? if you're worried about people writing the craptastic story of TEH HAUNTED .JPGLibations (talk) and you ban .jpg, you're just going to get TEH HAUNTED .BMPLibations (talk). It's a rule mitigating a non-issue.

9. Why?

13.  This is the worst to me, because it forbids the idea of having a neutral first person narrator. for example in this pasta I like: http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_King_Come_Down  It's in the first person and yet we know nothing about the person speaking. That's fine by me. If the story had begun like "Hey, my name is Jeff and I am 18.  Anyway..." it would be lame.