Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-25634669-20141108180734/@comment-4993676-20141108195345

In my opinion stories should only be taken down that have many grammatical errors, or if it's the opinion of the majority of people who read the pasta in question that it's bad. That's the only way a pasta with little to no grammatical errors should be deleted, in my opinion.

Otherwise pastas can just be deleted based on one admins opinion that they don't like the story, and that's an extremely bad system. My story The Painter got deleted after 1 admin took it off M4R, then another admin put it back on there for simple paragraph separation problems. I fixed those, and waited for the admin that M4R'd it to get back to me. 2 days later yet another admin swooped in and deleted it for a completely unrelated reason, one that I had not heard from anyone else. "Too many useless details". This was the opinion of only ONE PERSON. The other 2 admins hadn't brought this up (I remind you that 1 of them even thought it was fine, removing the M4R to begin with), and it wasn't even a matter of grammatical errors. It was literally based solely on the critical view of one person on matters of the story. That's why it got deleted.

I'm not saying this to just whine about my story being removed, or to even try and get it back up, I'm just saying that if this is happening all the time then it's my opinion that this system has a huge flaw.

They claim that this is a literature website, and yet they are able to remove perfectly fine stories that pass all grammatical tests because they have a problem with the story. I understand that they are in the position to do this, and I'm not saying they don't have a right to. I'm just trying to offer a different perspective. This system is as if every critic that has a problem with a published book had the power to get it removed from shelves.

When you start removing stories based on matters of the story (which are completely opinion based), and not just grammatical errors (which is factual based), then it's a huge problem in my eyes. If you are going to do this, it needs to be put to a vote.