User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-24101790-20170210025912/@comment-25458443-20170210041142

My point was that "The Workshop" is a weird slow process where even if you get somebody full on like "Good job thumbs up" you aren't guarenteed that your story won't be deleted. Casual writers with good ideas probably won't care much to have their story deleted, take it over to the WW, have it reviewed, make some edits, have it reviewed again, make some edits, finally be happy with it, and finally submit it again.

I'm not saying the concept of our system is flawed on papaer but in execution I think it honestly does discourage a lot of writers from diving headfirst into this community. If other people think that makes them closeminded or unwilling to get better and they shouldn't be part of this community anyway because of that, than that's sort of valid but I just don't see it that way. Open. I think this community really could feel more open to newcomers.