User blog comment:Dorkpool/In Defense of Admins/@comment-25052433-20141028215214

Well said. I agree totally. With all the energy people put into complaining, they could probably have fixed their story or written something better.

And you know, I get it. It stings beyond words sometimes when you think you have a great piece of work completed, and you post it, waiting for all that positive feedback that you are just so sure you are going to get, and then reality crashes in, and your work is gone.

I can see how that hurts, and I can see how it makes people upset.

But what I always tell folks is that if they just follow the system that is already in place, the odds of your work being deleted are very low. Go through the Writer's Workshop, get the critiques, make any necessary changes, and if you really want that warm and fuzzy, ask an admin to read it over. If they bless off on it, you're golden.

Truth is, doing things the right way may simply take more patience than some of these writers are willing to demonstrate. And as always, with rushed work, you get rushed results, which might mean your story being rushed into the deletion bin.

Good post.