User blog comment:Banningk1979/Jeff the Killer: A Deeper Look/@comment-24881871-20141118230858

To add to the author's note at the beginning of this blog, there was a third group in addition to the love-or-hate. I and a few other people didn't particularly like the story, but understood that it's a classic in the genre and served as a forebear of thousands to come. I believe it was ClericofMadness who argued that a lot of the classics on this site don't stand up to our quality standards today. The Russian Sleep Experiment, for instance, is poorly written and relies on shock value to unnerve the reader. If a pasta like that were uploaded today, it would be deleted near instantly. I think it would be prudent, then, to judge the classics from a historical standpoint.