Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5422312-20140128002612/@comment-1196539-20140128165357

CalasanX wrote:

Let it die off. Let it stay dead.

It's not dead. It never was, and never will be. Whether it was good or bad (it was bad), whether anyone loves it or hates it, it's a part of Creepypasta history. It will be written about, it will be referenced, and it will continue floating around until the end of time. It will never die regardless of whether we ban it, so if that's your end goal, you're wasting your time.

Fatal Disease wrote: We have the Soniccreepypasta wiki now, that user's can post Sonic.exe/anything relating to Sonic. I, for one, don't have a grudge against Sonic pastas, just Sonic.exe pastas. Blacklisting them was a good thing, 'cause that caused a lot of pain and suffering towards the Quality Standards. Is that our final solution? Every time something just gets to be too much work for Creepypasta, it goes here, and when it gets to be too much work here, we make a whole new wiki for it as an unmoderated dumping grounds? That seems like a lot more work for us, and it sounds incredibly unfair to the community.

LOLSKELETONS wrote: If someone comes up with a good Sonic.exe spinoff, I say let it on here. In other words, no. Sonic.exe is a terrible story that only inspires other terrible stories. I mean, unless you guys just want to drop the whole "quality standards" thing, what's the point? Freedom of speech.

SaintRalph wrote:

If the person has good intentions of making a Sonic.exe story, then he/she can make a pastebin link and show it to an administrator. If, however, Sonic.exe does get unbanned, might as well delete the Quality Standards, and let this site go down the drain with shitty stories and trolls pestering users. How will they know that? Is everyone who wants to submit a story about a banned subject going to have to dig around for this arbitrary announcement to find out there's a loophole?

I still think it's absolutely ridiculous that something, ANYTHING, would be banned here, of all places. The place where everything banned from Creepypasta goes. Heck, I think it's silly that things are banned there, and it would be less work having the staff of both wikis combined in the Quality Control effort than it is to split them up in maintaining two totally separate wikis. And now we're talking about adding more?

I mentioned this in a previous thread--maybe if topics weren't "blacklisted," but "quarantined," or something of the sort. Making them outright banned subjects just discourages the handful of people with decent postings from contributing to this site, which we should always welcome. There's always going to be five times as much crap to sift through as there are quality submissions, but if it gets too overbearing for a particular topic, quarantine it--create a staff (or user) review system that determines whether new articles on a particular subject stay or go, and bring attention to them. Like the pastebin thing. Make a proper submission form for quarantined subjects somewhere on the site that's easy to find and clear as crystal for submitters. Then, I don't have a problem with it.