Board Thread:Site Policy/@comment-5371501-20130514124911/@comment-4205827-20130515145620

It says 'requirements'. Generally speaking 'requirements' means 'this is what you have to do'. But all right. Cliche pastas are a BIG problem on here, and a lot of genres become formulaic, so in a way it would be good if people were forced to avoid them by the rules of this wiki. Haunted files is one of my favourites and it has been ruined by overuse of the same tropes. An element I did always like was that the file was placed on their computer by means of malware/spyware. It speaks to our paranoia about those things and there is actually malware out there that will disable the user from controlling his own computer and putting up shocking images of gore and extreme pornography (lastmeasure for one).

And I definitely agree that people use too many ellipses...