User blog comment:BenFugman/Working through heckin' rewrites of KATD.../@comment-24101790-20170512040214/@comment-24101790-20170513041500

I'm sorry, but that's a real bad example to put forth that instead of bothering to edit it when dozens of errors get pointed out by multiple people you are trying to shift the blame for your laziness onto people who are trying to keep quality stories on the site. I'm sorry that your story has issues that multiple people have given you feedback on that you don't really seem interested in taking, but the onus falls on you as a writer to try and improve those things yourself instead of looking for a scapegoat.

A month has passed since your appeal was turned down and your story is Deviantart with the same plot of mechanical mistakes. Your attempt to edit the story when you reuploaded it was to add a few spaces to the story and add an author's credit. We're looking for people who are willing to be critical of their stories instead of hastily posting a story with minimal proof-reading. Finally it really shouldn't take you a month plus to correct errors in the meantime (even if you plan on revising it). Leaving it floating around with basic grammar issues doesn't really reflect well on your catalogue.

As for your second point about not wanting to read other encounters: As I said before "Even if it is true like you're claiming, the manner in which it is told starts off incredibly dry and really doesn't do a good job putting the audience into the protagonist's shoes to make the story tense." The story basically amounts to someone knocking on the door, the protagonist being frozen in place, and then they leave. There's no real attempt to inject any real sense of terror into the story and the cold opening really doesn't help much. It basically follows all the steps of a BEK story without any attempt to make the audience invested by making the character's actions/emotions feel real. As we already have a number of these tales on the site that are more effectively told (see Black-Eyed Kids in Kansas, Black-Eyed People and My Encounter with the Black Eyed Kids for reference), I really don't see the point in accepting yours with its numerous mechanical and plot issues. It doesn't really matter if the story is true if it's not written in a way that's engaging.