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'''A''': A few reasons: It was created by the former site owner, it's the most well-kept archive, and the other sites are eithergenerally unorganized, poorly managed, buggy, and not up to date.

'''A''': Since 2015, Trollpasta was always at risk of being shut down due to spam and NSFW pages. For years the admins and the community had made many efforts in purging these sorts of pages in order to prevent the site from being closed, resulting in the three purges. The first one taking place in late August 2013, where about 700 pages were deleted. 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 the community at the time, started in November 2015 and ended some time in late 2016. It was a period of mass-deletion where around 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.

'''Q: MostSome pages have missing images. Why is that?'''

'''A''': Unfortunately, none of the images on the old site were archived in Fandom'sthe XML dump forof it.the Wesite areFANDOM workingprovided onus restoringwith. manyThrough ofan theeffort imagesthat lasted about three months, butwe it'smanaged likelyto arestore lotthe vast majority of them can(roughly nevertwo bethousand recovered.files) Webut apologizethere forare about 90 stories with files that are thispermanently inconveniencelost.

'''A''': They were taking up too much space and weren't completely necessary. They're pretty old and outdated. But if you're feeling nostalgic and would like to view them still, check out [[Trollpasta Wiki:Theme Songs|this page]].

'''A''': Some categories that were intentionally misspelled were renamed togiven proper spelling for the sake of convenience, while others were given more defined names. A coupleTwo categories with derogatory language were also renamed/removed in an effort to make the site lessavoid controversialcreating and havefostering a moretoxic wide appealenvironment, andother somecategories categoriessimply turned out not to be very useful.

'''A''': Since we are continuing where we left off with the old site, we're still deleting low quality Trollpastastrollpastas that aren't worth reading. Trust us, you're not missing much from these pastas. Unlike other pasta wikis, you don't have to sift through dozens of bad, spammy, and unfunny pages that only exist to waste your time. We are a wiki that strives for quality, not quantity.

'''A''': If a pasta is spammy, shitposty, and/or painfully unfunny, then it's most likely bad and not worth reading. Some shitpost pastas can be funny, but most of the time they fall flat, so it's best to avoid making them. Stories that are lazily written by adding a bunch of clichés and making no effort in making it entertaining are also not good. For more information, check out the [[Trollpasta Wiki:Writing a Trollpasta: Do's and Don'ts|Trollpasta do's and don'ts]] and [[Trollpasta Wiki:Trollpasta Clichés|clichés list]].

'''Q: Why are there Creepypastascreepypastas on here?'''

'''A''': SomeMany deleted Creepypastascreepypastas are so bad they are worth preserving. About 60% of the stories in the [[:Category:Bad Creepypasta|Bad Creepypasta]] category are also not available to read anywhere else online, so it's good to have a place where they can be read. Trollpasta Wiki just so happens to be the place where they're kept.

'''A''': Check out the [[Trollpasta Wiki:Editing 101|Editing 101]] page for more details.

'''Q: There's an old pasta I made on here that I want to be removed. Can it be?'''

'''A''': Yes, just message one of the [[Trollpasta Wiki:Administrators|site admins]] and we'll remove your story.