Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-26456758-20151017042818/@comment-25428589-20151017082553

MurderHouze wrote: I understand if the pasta didn't meet the quality standards, I'm just upset that it was up for months just to be thrown to the side by you guys. Honestly, I don't care about either one of the pastas, especially the second one, I just feel disrespected by it being deleted without being informed. The pasta was up for four months and was edited by admins, so why was it not deleted then? Why was I not informed by anyone of how bad it was and why did it gain nothing but positive reviews? How could such a terrible pasta finish in third place for POtM? That shows flaws in the sites system and in the admins as well. Surely enough, somebody early on should have read it and decided "this pasta is not good enough for this site, let's remove this shit."

Thanks for the replies, I just assumed it was good enough to be on the site because of the good reviews and the fact that it was up for four months. Just came as a surprise to me. I'm always open to criticism(hopefully you admins are as well) as it makes me a much better writer. I'll just try harder next time to make my writing look as if a twenty year professional had written it. Sometimes, stories which don't meet the QS slip through the cracks. We get about 50 new stories every day, and it's difficult for us to go through and quality check every single one of them. Thus, some stories are able to pass through without being fully quality checked by us. The reason you weren't informed of the deletion is because of the age of the story. Of stories past a certain age, we won't inform the author of the deletion directly, as 99% of the time, the author will come to the 'site, post one story and never come back, making it a waste of our time to contact every author whose story we delete past a certain age.

Additionally, POTM is by no means a good reflection of a story's quality. Whether or not something gets POTM is a very bad way of judging how good/bad a story is.