User blog comment:EtherBot/Let's Talk Deletion!!!/@comment-27838637-20170211153622/@comment-25941663-20170211163226

@Anarchic (you ninja'd me with your post, so that's a reply to your second message):

I don't know if I speak for other admins, but when I delete a story that is close to meeting the QS, I actually leave feedback to the user. Most of the time these reviews are much more in depth than my normal reviews too and I might even spent a good half an hour writing them. Because I see that the user put in the effort, but just couldn't drive it home. In those cases, I absolutely give feedback, either on the Workshop or on their talk page.

Unfortunately these cases are very rare. I think I've done it 3-5 times since I became an admin. I believe 2 of them got posted on the site, and 1 is actually pretty good.