Trollpasta Wiki:Questions and Answers: Difference between revisions

'''A''': Since 2015, Trollpasta was at risk of being shut down due to spam and NSFW pages. For years the community had made many efforts in purging these sorts of pages in order to prevent the site from being closed, allresulting culminatingin three major purges. The first one taking place in late August 2013, resulting in the deletion of about 700 pages. The second in early 2015, which saw roughly the same amount of pages as first purge being deleted. The third and final purge, known as the 'Great Purge' among members of 2015the community at the time, started in November 2015 and ended some time in late 2016. It was a period of mass-deletion where fivearound six thousand pages were deleted, bringing the page count down from 12,600 to 6,800. Everything was going fine, until the site was shut down without warning on August 17, 2018. Trollpasta "not having a defined purpose" was said to be one of the reasons it was closed.

'''A:''' Despite what some people might think, trollpasta is not about trolling, nor do we condone trolling in any way shape or form. One of the reasons the genre is called 'trollpasta' is because many of the early trollpastas usually started out as 'serious' creepypastas and either got incredibly stupid in the last paragraph, or had the last sentence be a popular meme of the time (Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Everybodyeverybody walk the dinosaur, etc.) revealing that the whole story was a joke disguised as an actual creepypasta. Another reason is the fact that many of them utilize what was then referred to as 'trollspeak', the all caps, bad spelling, rushed manner many of the old stories were written in which would later become a trademark of trollpastas, although this trend has died down in recent years.

'''A''': Unfortunately, none of the images on the old site were archived in Fandom'sthe XML dump of the site FANDOM provided us with. Through an effort that lasted about three months, we managed to restore the vast majority of them (roughly two thousand files) but there are about 90 stories with files that are permanently lost.