Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140831020319/@comment-4832646-20140831045111

Fatal Disease wrote:

Princess Callie wrote: It isn't needed, since hardly anyone posts Humor Articles. Either way, that may not mean they aren't going to. Plus, trollpasta: mockery of a creepypasta. Humor Article: Article meant more for humor, but not necessarily a troll. In fact, I'd go as far to say that the humor articles that were deleted were of well enough quality but wouldn't be considered actually funny as far as Trollpasta is concerned. (Also, Humor Articles are subject to almost all of the QS. Not just grammar.)

Also, do we really need another blacklist? We aren't CP. We only need to blacklist things that are uploaded constantly and are of bad quality, or are just so utterly numerous it overwhelms and overshadows other pastas.

This is silly. This wiki shouldn't be taken quite as seriously as CP. Not as much as Trollpasta, but not taken so seriously that it literally ends up as CPW 2.0.

Also, our traffic is going down as is. I've honestly been thinking on relinquishing a couple of blacklisted subjects, and here we go trying to blacklist more.' It's not necessary.

Also, they don't have half the effect you claim they have. They're not numerous. They make up maybe .1% of the wiki.

So basically, lighten up a little. There are other things I could go into (the fact that you want to classify them as spam is ridiculous for a half a dozen reasons) but that's all for now. Well, yeah. But most of the category are not really... qualitative. Sure, it's possibly the tiniest percent on the wiki. Sure, it's not CPW. Sure, and no one posts them anymore. Sure, we shouldn't become the next CPW. But as for quality of the articles? Look through the category and read them. There are like a good 2 (maybe 3) articles in that category that are good. But that doesn't mean that we should keep these stories be on here because our traffic is going down.

Also, Trollpasta's can be considered as a mockery of Creepypasta's like what you said. But it's not the sole definition over there anymore, or anywhere at all. They can be serious articles written with humor/satire, or have the same elements as what the articles in the category are made for. Why, a Trollpasta can be considered as The Legendary Brawl series. Most of the stories in the category can be classified as a trollpasta, or at least a very shitty article that's not par with the QS. Go have a read on some of them for yourself and see that you don't want to delete them for quality reasons.

Yes, we don't need to become the next CPW. But we don't need shit on the site, especially if it's that little .1%. I'd rather have 0% shit on this site, and have users be happy reading stories that are qualitative on a literature site. Not become where we were before I had blacklisted the Jeff-Inspired articles because they weren't qualitative, and that we were becoming the second Fanfiction.net with users posting them. I do want them to be happy too, but I just don't want this site to be Fanfiction2.net. More like the same quality like CPW has, but with less restriction in its standards.

Blocking them for spam is kind of reasonable in my case. I do see why that can be a bit heinous. But since most of them are trollpasta's, or at least not that good, I labelled them as spam, as trollpasta's are already considered spam. So, if they do get blacklisted (which possibly they're not by your case), a warning would be issued not to do it again.

If anything, I think that they should have both, humor and quality. Not just a slap on the butt for good grammar and humor.

Going off topic, if we're going to relinquish the blacklist stuff, I would go for the MLP articles. The Jeff-Inspired articles were the stuff that made it feel like the next Fanfiction.net, so that's not really a no-go on those stories. SCP... they should stay the same to where they are. Sonic.exe stories should automatically be blacklisted, unless if one can write a great one.

Yeah, and some of the good ones were deleted. I've had plans for some of them (I've thought about asking Mike if I could take over "The Nicotine Crew".) that I would still like to put into effect.

Don't get me wrong when I say our traffic is going down. I want quality, but I'd prefer not to see the wiki abandoned because we strickened our rules too quickly without the population to make up for it.

What you're basically saying is that a few that we have left are shit. And? A large majority of what's here isn't exactly good. Should we blacklist everything because there are a number of articles not on par with the QS? No, we should clean it up, maintain it, and start back over.

That .1% makes very little difference. I've never seen a user scream "ZOMG I found a humor article! Spinpasta officially sucks because of that!" Mainly, because that's silly.

Our quality is slowly going uphill as it is. Don't rush it by negating the small bit of funny stuff that users post now and then. Frankly, we aren't CPW. We're a completely different wiki that is part of the same network. We do things slightly differently, and humor articles are apart of that difference.