User blog comment:Archergirl131/A Compromise/@comment-10950063-20140513215320

Every few weeks something like this gets talked about. Here's why we've never instituted it:

-Before someone posts a story they have as much time as they want to take before they post it. If they have all the time in the world why should we give them two more days? Everyone has a chance to fix their story post they post it. Afterwards they can do deletion appeal or writer's workshop.

-You're assuming that most stories can be fixed in only two days. Often, there's severe issues that require time and thought.

-The time limit will lead to even more complaints. X amount of time isn't enough, tt's taken me X + 1 amount of time to finish it, can I still post it, it's not fair, I only just saw the warning today.

-Some people aren't capable of fixing their mistakes. Not everyone is good at writing.

-We get a lot of people here who don't seem to care that their story is deleted. We also get people who use this site solely as a means to show their friends or to host info about their RP characters. Should we waste our time critiquing these people?

-The people who maintain this site deal with multiple stories each day. The writers tend to be dealing with only one. So, instead of us talking to everyone, the ones who want to take the initiative to to find out can do that. There's multiple avenues: asking the person who deleted their story, deletion appeal and the writer's workshop. One of those will yield them an answer.

-Our current method is the most efficient. The alternative is that we find something that's low quality, prepare a critique, notify the writer, wait an arbitrary amount of time and, most likely, end up deleting the story anyway. In the mean time, the site is getting completely jammed with bad stories.

Everyone who proposes something like this seems to assume, at least on a small level, that we're a machine that churns out hurt feelings. They rarely consider how difficult the site is to maintain and the attitude of the average user.