User blog comment:Dela livi/i need to vent/@comment-24918380-20140508185656/@comment-10950063-20140508191823

First off, I wasn't blowing up. I was listing the half a dozen things they could have done. If that's considered blowing up then you will have an extremely hard time in life. Point out to me where I was rude or abusive. I was going to give her feedback on her work, tell her why it was deleted UNTIL I realized she plagiarized.

Secondly, she was blocked for plagiarism. Yeah, it was deleted previously, but that doesn't matter. She still posted plagiarized material. Just because it wasn't caught before doesn't make it any less seriious. In fact, it was only uncovered because I was trying to be helpful. I wanted to see how much it depended on the source material only to find out it was a direct copy.

Third, just because someone is your friend doesn't make them always right. Nor does it make anyone who disagrees with them a monster. Again, your friend has plenty of options available to them of which they chose none.

Finally, our standards are fine. Your basis for them being too high is that your friend's material was deleted. Have you ever heard the fable of the fox and the grapes? I'll sum it up: a fox wants to eat some grapes, but can't get to them. He gets angry and says he didn't want them anyway, because they must be sour.

The point is that just because you can't get something doesn't mean that thing is flawed.

No one is forced to post their work here. We never solicit anyone for any material and then reject it. If we paid for material the standards would be even higher and your friend's stories would still be rejected.