Board Thread:Site News and Announcements/@comment-24486926-20140105192505/@comment-1196539-20140107175605

CalasanX wrote:

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote:

Rickomarow wrote: For me, we should ban ALL of the clichês that appear in Creepypastas, hell, maybe just straight ban File Extension pastas, since they're filled with clichês, specially after Sonic.exe and BEN DROWNED appeared.

I think this wiki should be just like Creepypasta Wiki itself, but with spin-offs, well, mostly about spin-offs (but you can still make your own stories here, obviously) but it will be spin-offs about GOOD pastas, like that one pasta that I heard that it's preety good, The Russian Sleep Experiment, and etc.

Now, I have some subjects here that are also filled with cliches and maybe should be banned.


 * Jeff-Inspired (I don't mean Jeff the Killer himself, I mean those pastas where they put their own name followed by "The Killer", for example: "Duck The Killer")


 * File Extensions (Do I need to say anything more?)


 * Ben Drowned (Ben was actually forgotten by everyone, but I still think it should be banned)

I didn't memorize the blacklisted subjects, so some of these three (if not all the three subjects) are already banned... That's hardly fair. You can't ban an entire genre of creepypastas just because a majority of them are poorly-written. By that logic, this site shouldn't exist because the vast majority of creepypastas are terrible works of literature. The target here is cliches and bad writing--not the topics which these things happen by chance to occur the most in. And I don't know that even that's true; I think you're projecting your personal tastes on this whole affair.

Video game creepypastas are the only ones I'm personally interested in. File extensions (good ones, mind you) in particular are my favorite, and I don't hate lost episode ones either (though they are getting to be overdone). What I do think are terrible and will never read are spin-offs of original creepypastas. I come here for spin-offs of licensed works, not things which were already creepypastas to begin with. That's just my taste, though, and people are free to write creepypasta spin-off stories all they like.

We should attack lazy writing/lack of creativity in all fields equally, not ban topics. Frankly, I don't agree with Sonic.exe being banned. I only first came here because this is the place where topics banned on Creepypasta go. Tell that to CP.

The issue primarily with attacking lazy writing equally in all fields lies in the fact that it is much more present in the fields that were mentioned. In truth, the categories that get banned (for example, Sonic.exe) are banned because the number of stories that get posted end up virtually the same. X happens, Y reaction happens, then Z happens at the end.

I'm not saying that the said genres are always bad; they're good if they're cooked right. But at the same time; how many original pastas here from the File Extensions category both lacked cliches and were good, not just based off a different pasta?

Occasionally, the topic itself has to be banned to slow the traffic by which the cliches and bad writing comes. I admit I'm not particularly a fan of doing so, but sometimes it has to be done. Most =/= all. As long as there is not an inherent, scientific correlation between two things, it's a generalization--and it's an injustice to act upon them in a position of authority. Suppose one person arrived at this site hoping to post a well-written, original, and cliche-free File Extension pasta, but what should he find but that he's not allowed to post about that topic because a group of other people who he's never met and has no relation to or influence upon have fucked it all up for everyone.

I understand your position, and that it's tempting to ban the entire topic in order to cut back on traffic and make managing the situation a lot easier. But that's not the answer. And should even one person like the above arrive at this site, an injustice will have occurred.

You've had plenty of good ideas for quality control in the past--volunteer users who monitor writing, extra regulations on the standards of writing. Banning subjects is not one of these good ideas.