Princess Callie wrote:
Oppose - 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 is not really... qualitative. Sure, it's possibly the tiniest percent on the wiki. Sure, it's not CPW. Sure, 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 the stories individually. 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. It's like saying that we should've kept Sonic.exe articles unbanned because people liked posting them.
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 or the other Ultimate article that is in the category. 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 (again, the sole purpose of a trollpasta). 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 silly in your case, which I do agree. But most of them are trollpasta's, or at least not that good. That's the reason I labelled them as spam, as trollpasta's are already considered spam. If they do get blacklisted (which possibly they're not by your case but by the communities), a warning would be issued not to do it again.
If they do not get blacklisted, I think that they should have both, humor and quality. Not just a slap on the butt for good grammar and humor, and that it tells a great story.
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.