User blog comment:StrangerThanTad/What happened to Slimebeast's pastas?/@comment-5943448-20170929184631/@comment-29652084-20171001214214

The only reason I'm going to respond to this in any way is because this is getting ridiculous and should have been resolved.

How about this: Administrators are not allowed to participate in site community activities. Sound fair? Oh, yeah, it completely throws away their competency in writing for an arbitrary rule to prevent favouritism, but we'll just ignore the meritocracy and focus on the prevention of an, as of right now, evidence-lacking claim.

From what I've read, you tried to gauge the competent writing of the staff based on one story written by a staff member. One of those 5 staff people you pointed out? Last I checked, he had almost 125 articles. Another had at least a straight 50. Another one had roughly 15. So, you've got maybe one dud in at least 190 articles (several of which I know have been PotM nominated by normal users unaffiliated with the admin team). Favoritism!

There is not a single story removed for subjective "taste" reasons. There is an objective QS that needs to be semi-revised, yes, but that does not mean that every story deleted is because 'UUURR IT OFFENDS MAI TASTES.'

I know you'll either argue with this or ignore it (because that is what you have done to many of the users here so far except ONE), so I'll put it this way: If the mods are showing actual straight favoritism, I want to see it. And I want to see it clearly. Just 5 out of 12 of them being a featured author/having a featured story/etc. doesn't cut it. Please, present some hard evidence. Provide the actual facts. Give us threads, screenshots, and links. Make yourself look less like a conspiracy theorist walking about and declaring Doomsday and provide evidence so it can be put to an immediate end.