User blog comment:TheKillerInYourHead/Who runs this website?/@comment-24101790-20160202210213/@comment-25148755-20160202231133

Empy is one of the most active and, frankly, helpful moderators here. I don't think he is trying to be overly harsh on the original poster. The issue becomes that he deals with quite a few situations very much like this one on a weekly, if not daily, basis. His question as to why the writer posted their story while admitting they knew there were some fairly large potential issues with it is valid.

Attacking grammatical errors in Empy's comment is sort of apples and oranges. It's a comment, not a story. I rolled my eyes at a youtuber who tried to make fun of how bad a creepypasta on this site was...only to find out the article they were attempting to burn was a blog post about a game,not an actual story. Same thing here. There aren't the same quality requirements for comments as there are for stories for reasons that should be obvious (although that's not to say anything goes...you can't just come off as a huge douche nozzle)

I'll admit that some of his grammar nazi tendencies can come off as nitpicky, but a few grammar mistakes here or there is almost never enough to get a story deleted, if that is the only thing wrong with it (to the contrary, most stories on here have less than perfect grammar.)  However, poor grammar certainly compounds other issues.

The great thing about this site is that we don't expect people to come on and be professional authors, or even that good. That's what the workshop is for. The other great thing is that the quality standards help keep a relatively high bar set for the site content. Honestly, I don't know of another forum that does these two things better.