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In two days (September 21st), all stories that are not in one of four categories will be deleted from the site in an effort to purge it of very bad quality stories. These four categories are:

• Category:Suggested Reading
• Category:Classics
• Category:PotM
• Category:NoPurge

The Quality Standards will be revised and made significantly stricter in addition to the purge.

There is a reason for this. Spin-off stories are generally held to a higher standard than original works; many of the ones here would fail the QS on our sister wiki.

Spinpasta should be holding spin-offs to this higher standard. You should be able to have a genuine shot at appealing your spin-off to the Creepypasta Wiki's spinoff appeal for it to meet the QS here - no, I'm not saying it should be guaranteed to make it. I'm saying that it should be good enough that it's actually a possibility.

That being said, if your story gets deleted and you feel that it would meet the revised QS you may post a Deletion Appeal once the purge has been completed and the new QS posted. If the story meets the new QS, it will be accepted and restored. You will also have the opportunity before the purge begins to have your story reviewed by an Administrator, and if the administrator deems that the story is good enough to stay it will be given the NoPurge category.

I realize that quite a few of you may not like this, but please be patient with us. If your story is good enough that it gets through the Deletion Appeal process, the increase in quality on site should help your story get more exposure as the removal of bad quality stories should help attract a community to the site.

The Purge will begin on September 30th.

As part of my overall attempt to clean up the site, I will be rebooting Suggested Reading (this) from scratch. Meaning, since I am unsure of all the works in the category being worth the category name, I will be removing them all and sorting it out over time. Some works do not need to be there: Others do. Some should be in there but aren't. (I think. Maybe.)

This is a notice that will be highlighted, so that anyone who wishes to be notified will be notified.

So, I just get back and I'm deleting shit stories that have been piling up on this brand new account that I made. I'm bored as hell, but I'm looking through Wikia Activity and I come across none other than this thread.

Not gonna lie, Maddie's Little Baby, one of the deleted stories, was mine. It was written about 3 years ago when I first starting writing for here. I'm also not gonna lie when I say that it went too far in that direction and it's not the first time I did it (There was another gorefic, a bit more violent and rapey, before we learned about the guidelines. It was a Phineas and Ferb fanfic I wrote out of boredom.) Maddie's Little Baby, at that point, was either forgotten about, or I just looked over it and didn't think too much into the subject.

But that said, let's get into the meat of this thread. 

What gets me here is the use of "extreme." It's a rather subjective term, as has been discussed before, back in 2013 iirc. It bodes the question: Should we have regulations on site for NSFW works? Should NSFW stories be allowed? Should the ones we have be deleted even if they're only lightly NSFW?

Personally, I don't think they should be deleted on the basis of light NSFW. I'm a very anti-censorship person, particularly nowadays, and to start deleting works based on content alone kills the entire point of sites like this. It goes down a slippery slope about what can be found offensive or not. Is there a line of objectivity? Is the mere mention of a fetish NSFW or too far, or do you have to go into as much detail as I did with Maddie's Little Baby? Was my story the maximum extreme, or the minimum? I think I'll examine the quality of what we have and make my judgments based on quality for now, but I'm wondering: Should we have guidelines? If so, what should they be? If not, why not?

'Tis an objectively touchy subject indeed. NSFW works tend to be gorefics as is, and usually get deleted (on CPW, anyhow, hardly anyone is active here,) but of those few diamonds in the rough, is it worth not preserving them based on what's found offensive? Obviously, we have to follow Staff here, but where is the line to be drawn objectively? Discuss.