Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24304936-20140603171416/@comment-1267828-20140607145401

Ravenyuuki87 wrote: is the site safe or still in danger of being baned? As stated above, yes. Speaking as an admin from the Slender Man Wiki where we've had to deal with the aftershocks of what happened to you guys, nobody is getting taken down.

The government of the United States cannot forcibly shut down a free literature site based on its content UNLESS said contents TELLS people to commit horrible crimes, but I have never personally run across a pasta on this site that does that, especially Slender Man. Besides that, the first amendment guarantees freedom of speech to the extent that as long as said speech, writing, or what have you does not directly infringe on anothers safety, life, or property, then you cannot be held responsible for its content. This wiki is essentially a giant book in a sense, as such it is guaranteed under the First Amendment, and it can't be shut down by these "White Knight" editors coming on this site and screaming about how "awful it is we're profiting from it". Additionally, as the Fourth Amendment disallows any government insitution from freely shutting the site down without due process first, and I can almost gaurantee you that Wikia would hire a legal expert to defend them in court. They would also likely win too for one specific reason: Any court case that is won or lost can be used by other legal experts in other cases. If one literature website gets shut down, that means ANY literature website can get shut down, and the resulting legal backlash and political responses would likely be unbelievably angry. Besides, no court has ever held a book responsible before, so why would this site? Catcher in the Rye is taught in school, and that inspired the John Lennon killing (I think that was the one, pardon me if I'm wrong).

Secondly, it doesn't take a psychologist to realize most of these people are simply overreacting to a very unfortunate but also isolated incident. People want to be able to blame and have an explanation for anything they do, and thus Creepypasta was the victim in this scene. Most of these individuals coming on and yelling at the wiki are simply, as one would put it, White Knights, who suddenly charge in, "Lance of Truth" in hand, and begin spouting pseudo-enlightening garbage about how people are "awful" and the sight needs to be "taken down". These people are simply hypocritical and will eventually go away. If this site WAS indeed that bad, it shouldn't have taken an attempted murder for these people to get involved and start complaining.

Like I said in my News post on the Slender Man wiki, parents are directly responsible for ANY and ALL websites their child visits. If their child visits this site, they should know. If they do not like this site, they should block the site URL from the browser. They should always have their childs browsing history on hand, what they're doing, where they're going, what they're looking at. I don't know if the parents of the two girls were paying attention or not, maybe they were, or maybe they weren't, I'm not here to judge them about what they let their child to see that was up to them, but for all other parents, SERIOUSLY CONSIDER whether you want your child on this site or not, and then keep track of all their contributions, posts, and messages on their account in the top right corner. If the parents aren't going to watch, then nobody will. I just want to go on the record that I'm not saying the parents of the two girls were necessarily "wrong" for letting their 12 year old girl visiting this site. She SHOULD have been 13 at the minimum, but maybe that wouldn't have changed anything. Besides, my mother let me play M rated games when I was 14, 3 years under the legal age, it's all about whether or not you have a firm grasp on your childs mentality. You, as a parent, make the decision and understand how it is your children are mentally maturing, and make the calls about the 'adult' things they get into. Maybe the parents thought it was okay the girls went on here, and that was their decision. All I'm saying is all other parents should use it as a CAUTIONARY tale and really think about whether they want their child on this site or not.

It is not up to the Creepypasta admins to play babysitter and ask each individual user. We, as Wiki's, have no way to know that all users are in fact of legal age and there are no disclaimer functions one can create that forces a user to assure they are at least 13. Even if the admins did something as ludicrously time consuming as ask every individual user and IP address 1 by 1, they'd likely get a lot of liars anyways, claiming to be honest about their age. For example, I am 24 years of age, and would freely admit that, but how would any admin here know that is 100% true? Unless they met me in real life, they'd have to take my word for it and nothing would change. Besides, this site already does a good job of trying its best to keep the 13 year rule on this site from what I've seen.

The admins here are people too. They have real lives, maybe even jobs or school (or both), and these White Knights need to remember we're not machines that are incapable of emotion and run on a single minded track. Anyways, this situation already seems to be blowing over. It was an unfortunate situation, but it already is starting to fade. Just like any other national case (The Zimmer Case, the Steve Utash beating), eventually something else comes along and steals the national attention. Once you guys finish riding it out, it'll be back to normal.