User blog comment:TheKillerInYourHead/Who runs this website?/@comment-26030957-20160203222356

The hard working administrators on this site want this to be place that is taken seriously. Would you want your story to be published by a site that had no standards? What kind of accomplishment would that be? If you do want that then go to the many other sites that will publish anything.

Fight Club author Chuck Palahunik suffers from severe dyslexia. Do you think he has ever used that as an excuse to write shoddy material? How about F. Scott Fitzgerald who wrote the iconic American masterpiece The Great Gatsby? Jules Verne? Agatha Christie? Yeats? Don't make excuses.

Many of the writers on this site spend weeks and even months working on their stories: diligently proofreading, avoiding cliches, thinking up metaphors and similes, complex characters, and creative and thought provoking narrative arcs. It is not fair to them to let a flood of crap overwhelm the site.

I personally believe the quality standards should be raised to an even higher bar.

Empy was in no way too harsh with you. Do you want to improve as a writer? Then listen to the man. Empy is a saint. Have you ever looked at his message board? The rants and ugly hate filled messages he gets? I wouldn't be able to tolerate it. The amount of time and dedication he has given to this site is extraordinary and we all owe him a debt of gratitude.