Tenoke comments on Consider giving an explanation for your deletion this time around. "Harry Yudkowsky and the Methods of Postrationality: Chapter One: Em Dashes Colons and Ellipses, Littérateurs Go Wild" - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Will_Newsome 08 July 2014 12:20:25PM *  3 points [-]

/shrugs. I know I'm biased and all but I didn't think it was that terrible. I spent like two hours editing it before posting. People sure are being mean about it though, so idk. I guess maybe I'll give up on trying to improve my fiction writing skill for now... Maybe it's a 'you have it or you don't' thing.

Comment author: Tenoke 08 July 2014 03:11:55PM 1 point [-]

If it makes you feel any better, Eliezer's April 1st fiction post wasn't accepted well, and was deleted in the end as well.

At any rate, you had some clever things in there, but it was mostly too vague and random to convey your point much further than telling us that you have some sort of a criticism.

Maybe it's a 'you have it or you don't' thing.

I do not believe this to be the case, based on having seen some people's improvements over time, but I have not researched this.