User blog comment:Furbearingbrick/No More Spinoffs: Desperate Struggle/@comment-4642250-20130106024340

I'd like to thank the administration for taking this step. It has been a long time coming. I found Creepypasta when a friend showed me the list of them on Encyclopedia Dramatica when the original site was still up. That page of short creepy stories kept me up for a good few nights. I was a regular reader on the creepypasta webpage and even though the stories were sometimes longer than I cared for I genuinely enjoyed them. When the site went dead and other archive sites went along with it I was left trying to find new stories. This wiki has both the advantages of archiving old content for new readers and allowing people to easily upload original content. Some good stories have come from here and by slowing the posting of these stories we can encourage original content.

I was there when Candle Cove was first posted on creepypasta.com and was there when suicidemouse.avi was posted on /x/. I thought they were quite creepy at the time, both are considered the start of the 'lost episode' genre.

The lost episode/game genre of pastas has annoyed me for a long time. They are mostly the same and follow the same tired cliches. Clicking the random button on this wiki usually takes me to one of the spinoff/blacklisted pastas and i'm fed up of it. It's not that video games, lost episodes and spinoffs didn't have potential, (I thought Red Mist accompanied Squidward's Suicide very well) but people seized them on mass and flooded the internet with effortless rehashes of the same stories. Cliches are common in storytelling but several hundred variations of 'I found an episode of a show with ultra realistic violent content' doesn't make for good reading and has to be quelled.