Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-24097978-20140209000854

The Damn Batman wrote: Deleting all of these stories is basically suicide. I admit, I wanted Jeff to be deleted. But the surge of users leaving the wiki is going to be too huge to deal with if we just delete all of this shit. Sonic and Jeff only had backlash on DeviantArt by angsty kids who hate the wiki no matter what we do. Although the community backlash may be small, this still doesn't really excuse getting rid of the classics.

The more famous pastas we delete, the more traffic (good or bad) we lose to the wiki. One of these days we're going to piss off some of the faces of the comunity (i.e Mr.Creepypasta, CreepsMcPasta or Someordinarygamer) and they're just going to say "Don't visit this site, go to Creepypasta.com, or somewhere else. From now on I'm getting stories from there."

And to bring a counterexample to what guy said, Jeff the Killer is like a fossilized peice of shit (or Copprolite). It may be disgusting and old, but it allows scientists to study the behavior of long dead species. Its like how people may get interested in Jeff, Ben or Slenderman and come to this site and slowly grow out of them and move on to better written pastas.

I couldn't have said it any better myself. Hell, I came here because I was looking to find (and read) BEN, but like drugs, BEN lead to Good's Diner lead to Lost Silver lead to my being here for the long haul, good or bad.

As for OC pasta -- it has its place, don't get me wrong, but we need some sort of system to separate the wheat from the chaff. I don't believe the answer lies in more moderation; our moderators have enough to do as it is, but something must be done. I can't tell you how many times I've come across pastas that would only be scary if I had never, ever read a scary story before. It's sickening, and frankly, makes everyone else look bad.