Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4714463-20140727035153/@comment-24918243-20140802064648

Shadowswimmer77 wrote: Apologies for the misinterpretation of your thread.

I think having the community is key. If you don't have it, you may as well just be posting stories on your personal blog. Feedback is invaluable for honing your craft (seriously, people, give feedback when you read a story!) and it's nice to have a built in audience that is a little more educated with the source material.

Now, regarding your claim that the current rule heavy structure is stifling, I'll turn it around on you: having a strict set of guidelines/types of stories that aren't being accepted/etc. actually encourages greater creativity. "Preposterous!" you exclaim. Well here's what I'm thinking. All of the banned stories, the Slendermans, Jeff the Killers, Pokepastas, etc. were original ideas at one point. The only thing that the rules prevent writers from doing are pushing out derivative hacks of another person's work. That isn't to say they can't be good or entertaining, but that's the exception. For the most part they on par with direct-to-video sequels. By eliminating the ability for people to post these types of stories, the mods are in fact merely challenging them to create something new. Perhaps the greatest compliment or mark of success a creepypasta writer can have is for site mods to disallow anything resembling their writing or involving their characters from being posted.

If I have again misread your original post, I will beg understanding in that you merely mention the existence of regulations that are affecting this community without specifically listing which ones you are taking issue with. Then it gets taken down and they pout and scream and try to convince everyone of what a masterpiece it is and how the evil admins deleted it.

I agree with you there.

And I'd also like to say this site is not a library, nor is it a fansite either. I think there lies the problem. A lot of people are under the impression this is a fan site. So they try to flood the place with un-original, boring stories full of grammatical mistakes. That's when they are not posting pictures of cute manga stile of JtK, Eyeless Jack, Slenderman, etc.

There are places for that. There is Deviant Art, /x/, fansites....heck...there is even spinpasta wiki. So there is no shortage of places for that stuff. I think that the admins here are trying to raise the bar not only of the stories, but of the skills of the writers as well. They want good stories, not fan junk. I could not agree more.