User blog comment:VegetaPrinceOfSayains/My personal opinion/@comment-25052433-20140803154648/@comment-25052433-20140804185220

To my knowledge, the admins have never blocked or banned anyone for that reason. That wasn't the point I was trying to make. My point was that some people may feel that way, especially newer members.

As far as the deletion debate goes, my point was never that pastas shouldn't be deleted. I don't think that was what Umbrello was implying either. I think the point here is the method by which some stories are deleted.

Jeff clones...got it, they gotta go. No one is going to disagree with that. Stories that make no sense, are horribly written, have cliché plots or are obvious troll stories...of course, get'em out of here.

What I think we were talking about was pastas that don't necessarily break any rules, but still get deleted for whatever reasons. Situations were an edit could have resolved the situation rather than a deletion.

However, even that wasn't my point. We want quality writing here, no one is debating that. The point I was making was that when something is brought up over and over again as a grievance, there may be a reason to look into amending the policy. Clearly we are a community here, and while it is not the task of the admins or the users to tolerate bad stories, it is the task of the staff and the members to continue to move forward by creating an environment of quality writing and open discussion.

No rule is written in stone. If a rule isn't working, there is no shame in sitting down and thinking of a new, or better way of doing things. At the very least, the cavalier attitude that I see here a lot when it comes to deleting someone's work needs to be adjusted. It is not a success story when we tear down someone's efforts, delete it and leave them wondering what went wrong.

I love this site and I intend to be around for a long time. If I am making suggestions to better things, it isn't because I want to complain about the way things are, it's because I love this place enough to take the time to try and settle some of the obvious points of tension that exist here.