User blog comment:Shadowswimmer77/Apologies and, I hope, an Explanation/@comment-25941663-20161108131711

There are no hard feelings, don't worry about it. I can understand why you are upset about all this.

As you went "public" with this and I denied your appeal, I will give a little bit of explanation for anyone who might care about this stuff.

The JtK contest was a big community thing. There was discussion on three separate places (two blogs and a forum post) and a lot of movement and activity surrounding the contest. Even the finalists were put to a public vote. There, a winner was chosen along with the two runner-ups. The winner was spotlighted and the runner-ups were linked on the page.

In my opinion, it would be unfair for a story to be published on the wiki while others weren't. If I was a runner-up I would be thinking "Hey, the admins decided against it, but if I had pushed for it I would have gotten my story on the wiki". That strikes me as wrong and unfair. I understand this is debatable, as is everything to do with morals, but it wouldn't sit well with me to publish a story, while there was a decision for only the winner to be posted (+ the links for the runner-ups).

That's basically one part of my thinking, more or less. The other part is we should not be accepting spinoffs, unless they are insanely good.