Talk:Stubb's Clubhouse/@comment-25052433-20160911160019

I think the age of this story and the large amount of positive feedback are what keeps it on the site. I just read it all the way through for the first time, and I'll admit, if this was posted today as a new story, it would likely be deleted within 10 minutes just due to the huge amounts of classic creepypasta cliche that exists within it.

The tape at the discount store, the clerk giving the stragne and never explained ominous warning, the tacky kid's show that airs on an obscure channel, yeah, this one is pretty much a walking collection of everything banned or deletion worthy by today's standards.

However, I do respect its age and general acceptance by the community. I am sure this one came around at a time when the concepts here were new and such stories could fly past the dreaded cliche radar that is our QS policies. For that reason I won't mark this for review, though I may look into marking it as a HA.

Either way, in my opinion this one did not age like wine. While it was likely considered a haunting example of the lost episode genre when it first appeared, by present standards and tastes, it now comes across as a story ripe with over used concepts, plot holes (the playground just happened to be right down the street) and of course, our favorite word of judgement around here, cliche.