Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-25306884-20150606193428

Hello there, I'm DupedMemories

In the past, I have made some...well not very enthralling posts on pages, calling people stupid, awful and generally bad things, making horrible sarcastic posts on this wiki (most notably today will the every admin ever post) which was in a way a joke to see what would happen. But what I want to do today is do an honest talk on some of the things that bug me here, and how they could be fixed to make an honestly struggling site better, as well as a tool for me to help me criticize in a more logical and less hurtful way.

Firstly is to hire more admins, or in the very least help the admins on here already try to be a bit better. I've seen countless stories on this wiki, ones that are written by people who most likely haven't written a story before, put up these stories. These stories, well are bad, very bad, and they get seen as a good story, and then tarnish the reputation of this site by being seen as a haven of bad stories, that overshadow the good ones. This is a big problem here, with admins who see these stories, miss the flaws, and then let them stay and get wasted. I know that stories do slip through the cracks, so in my opinion we need more admins for two reasons: 1. For accomplished story writers to help the admins 2. For more admins to check the stories to not let any bad ones slip through.

Secondly.. is the community. This isn't in any was a stereotypical look on things, but the majority of the community here are people who don't really look at stories in a smart and fair way, who just insult and harass others for not having the same opinion. I used to be one of these, heck I was one of them today. But after a while of thinking after the previous thread was deleted, and realized this wasn't the way to go. In all honestly, the people in this wiki can sometimes be rude, and this also hurt the people who generally just want to read and enjoy stories and give smart critiques on them.

Thirdly, are the stories. Look I know that people still like these stories.. but in my honest opinion a lot of the classic creepypastas aren't very good. Some of my examples are: Laughing jack, Eyeless jack, and Suicide mouse(Not counting Jeff the killer, Eyeless jack, and Sonic.exe, since they have since been deleted). These stories were some of the first stories to ever be written in a creepypasta format. Lots of people thought they were good because.. we didn't know in any way how we were supposed to write these stories, so we saw them as good. But now that more stories have been written and made and now that the standards haven been made, these stories in general have been seen as many as bad, including me. This causes problems, like people who see these stories and think that that's how you write a creepypasta, and will make stories like them (Clockwork and Ticci toby being examples). Which causes more loose and crappy copies to be made. In my opinion we need a cleanup to get rid of these stories to better balance out this wiki.

There you have it, some critiques of this wiki, and aren't just ego induced insults. I'd like to hear your comments on your opinions. To see what you think, and any criticisms of this post. Anything helps. 