Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24694044-20140413112633/@comment-10950063-20140414130920

Vaderspasta wrote: ImGonnaBeThatGuy,

seriously? SERIOUSLY? I gave you a reason. We get a ton of stories every day. On top of that, we have to deal with all the other crap that goes on here. Why should we slow down the already nearly impossible task of maintaining the site by giving people some arbitrary amount of time to do what they should have done in the first place? Why should we assume that they will fix it? Why should we assume they're capable of fixing it?

The purpose of this site isn't to teach people how to write. We're not teachers, it's not our duty to hold hands. We have the writer's workshop and if someone wants to know why their story was deleted usually they will get an answer. Then, if they want, they can try again.

You know what? The majority of people don't. Maybe they're discouraged or maybe they realize that writing is hard and they wanted to do something easy. So, your suggestion won't even be taken advantage of by most people.

Stories don't have to be perfect, but they do have to follow rules. Usually, if something follows the most basic rules it won't be deleted outright. It's not our job to teach those rules. If you're going to write, you should know them. Being a new user has nothing to do with being a competent writer.

So, aside from it being nice, why should we give people more time?