Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-5733573-20181221222735/@comment-36627132-20181222094407

HopelessNightOwl wrote: It's not even close to being fan fiction as the term is commonly understood.

Let me ask you guys something: if the celebrity being stalked in that story was a fictional celebrity rather than LDC, would your reaction be the same? Yes and no. Yes = The fact that this is something that didn't really happen to him ruins it. You can make a story about a fictional celebrity and make it scary.

Stephen King's Misery is about a fictional writer (despite being an author avatar), and it's pretty good in the way of horror.

No = The story really isn't scary no matter who it is about fictional or otherwise. It is hard to take a work seriously about someone who is real, as it is obvious that it never happened. I mean, there can be plausible stories about a historical figure because it could be a buried past sort of thing, but since this is a modern celebrity who has almost never been out of the public eye, the story loses credibility. I agree with Jdeschene when she said you cannot say that this is not a fanfic because it totally is.

HopelessNightOwl wrote: I'd have to see those specific stories to respond to that point. To my memory there haven't been any stories deleted as "fan fiction" for being about real celebrities. Just because a story hasn't been done before doesn't mean it is any good (though I am pretty sure celebrity-fic has been done before). Having something original isn't worth the already sinking jeopardizing quality standards.

HopelessNightOwl wrote:

You guys are becoming a little obsessive over "holding the line" against bad stories being posted on this wiki. We have every right to be like that, we want quality stories.

HopelessNightOwl wrote:

users aggressively pushing the use of Writer's Workshop in a way that practically implies it's required when it's not

There's a good chance that a first time writer isn't going to write a quality story, we're saving them the frustration of having their work deleted. It isn't aggressive, it is necessary. Most new users don't even know there is a writer's workshop.