User blog comment:Speccyemerald/How excatly do the mods and rollbacks know that is a trollpasta and what isn't? Why have the rules on pastas been tightened?/@comment-25941663-20151128180558

It is pretty clear when a story is a trollpasta. I've never once encountered a case where I was on the fence.

About the standards, more and more people join the wiki and submit their stories, so in order to avoid getting flooded with bad stories, the standards are constantly being raised. (it's more complicated than that, but that will suffice for now)