Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25020361-20140604101457/@comment-25020361-20140604213530

Creepy pasta seems to have possibly been "benefiting" from its perhaps "playful" blending of reality and fiction. This may be called by some as a "playful blending of reality and fiction", but I might call it an "intentional confusing of the difference between the two". Obviously, if Creepy Pasta were to take concrete steps to make it clearer, what this difference is on their site, such as requiring clearly worded disclaimers, then they would probably reduce their web traffic, at least somewhat.

This is what I would call a risk versus benefit consideration. It seems to me that the reason that my suggestions are consistently ignored or argued against here, may be because of this exact equation. The question is, "Is it worth reducing web traffic if we must be more honest in our presentation?" Perhaps it will take another tragedy before any of the site owners here "sober up" and finally begin to realize the true cost of the games that are being played here, in trying to playfully disguise fiction as reality. True, most adults are capable of eventually "reading between the lines" of the front page and realizing that the site must be primarily fiction, but please also realize that some 12-year-olds may not be.

Scott