Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-27558446-20160106154332

Personally, I'm here to read Creepypasta not Western Literature. I came across one comment on one of those pieces stating that it was added for "Educational Purposes". Project Gutenburg and LibriVox have that covered for anyone that for one reason or another has not had the opportunity to read them.

My attraction to Creepypasta has a lot to do with the unconventional and diverse voices offered by the plethora of writers that, without the internet, I may have never been exposed to. I'm sure I'm not the only one that finds that the works on the pedestal of cultural greatness often have an air of staleness to them, not only because they have been immitated so many times but also because they are often and almost exclusively the narrow voice of the affluent classes of past eras. To place established works of literature next to the works of emerging writers in an emerging genre is doing both a disservice.

I would suggest that if these are to remain on the site, they at least be indentified as what they are(some of them are by the identification of the year and author but many only have the title) so that they can be avoided by anyone not interested and to reduce the amount of misguided critique by anyone not aware that the author is long dead. 