User blog comment:Zumokiworks335/CREEPYPASTA WIKI IS FOR PRO'S/@comment-5614678-20160713231140/@comment-4715955-20160714013549

He didn't filter out what you said. What you said simply missed the point entirely.

The standards are not too high here, unless the point of the wiki is to be a grade school competition where everybody wins. It's not. It's trying to be an island of relief (a place where people put effort into their work) in an ocean of diarrhea (the internet, where there are no rules, no standards, and no tolerance for criticism). I might even say the standards here aren't even as high as the average publishing house, and a publishing house wouldn't even bother critiquing a rejected work. How do you think people like the OP would handle being completely brushed off by a publisher? They already act like lazy, narcissistic brats as it is, who want all of the fame for none of the work, but at least here they get more chances than they fucking deserve for their bratty bullshit. Piss off a publishing house editor, she tells all the other editors she lunches with, and bye bye writing career. So excuse me if I have a chuckle at the "standards are too high" thing.

Also the concept of quality being "totally subjective" is a very self-pleasing idea that retards intellectual discussion. My liking the DeLorean doesn't automatically make it a good car: a good car doesn't break down every two blocks, nor freeze the doors open or shut after a fender bender bends its flimsy chassis. It's just that there's no rule stating I can't like a bad car in spite of its badness. If everything were subjective, plays would not be plays, fiction would not be fiction, movies would not be movies. There would be no standards or criteria for anything. 50 Shades of Grey would be considered no better or worse than Dracula or Harry Potter. It's an argument people with no standards use to justify their inability to have meaningful discussion, and to feel better about themselves for saying 50 Shades of Grey is quality work (which isn't even necessary because, again, like/dislike has no connection to good/bad).

By championing for lower quality standards, all you're really doing is empowering the whiny brats who terrorize the admins on a regular basis, and spend their time making whiny blog posts instead of putting in the effort that it takes to write a functional story. That's the whole purpose of the wiki quality standards: to get it through their skulls that in the adult world, real writers should put in the time and effort. The ones who can't cut it either start getting better at it, or go do something else. Or they can take their shitty work to another publisher that's basically a hugbox for the incompetent. I hear the 50 Shades publisher is looking for new "talent".