A few days ago I had my article deleted.
It didn't insult anyone, it was nothing compared to other immoral articles people have written, or even a few things I myself have written before. The bottom line is, it didn't deserve the axe.
Yes, I admit that it almost didn't have anything to do with sports and I even made fun of it for that, but then again this isn't the first article that was written on this site that isn't exactly sports-related.
A friend of mine called Rocky Getters wrote an article called Me, Myself, and Sports, it had very few things to do with sports and it was mainly about him and how sports affected his life—but again, it was basically about him and not sports.
That article won an AOTD, and in my humble opinion it deserved the AOTD, but it wasn't exactly the SPORTS article of the day.
Later on, someone wrote an article about dogs and won an AOTD. I'm not even jealous or envious, I'm just pissed off.
My article, while not the most read, was getting POTD votes that were making me feel good about myself, but some editor wanted to play like some kind of editing God and deleted it.
No warning, no kind of caution or excuse, but instead deleted it without me getting any kind of information on why they wiped it—if I was warned maybe I would've changed a few things.
I told myself: "Finally, an article I could share with my friends from the NFL or Wrestling page". I rarely send them links about my articles because I know they won't enjoy them—For God's sake, I even posted a few people in the NASCAR page.
But this article was different, it was something most people could read, maybe not most would like, but it was intended for all people.
The definition of the word 'Editor' is: "a person who edits or makes changes to documents".
This was taken from wiktionary.org—it didn't mention deleting some one's work.
I once wrote an article called "What The F*** Is Wrong With Arsenal?", it didn't get any kind of warning even though the name itself caused controversy, did it deserve the axe? Well, on B/R it did, but what about freedom of speech?
I mean, that's the main reason I joined B/R, to share my opinion and gladly accept any criticism regarding my actions.
I wanted to address a few things I wanted to share with anyone who edits articles on B/R.
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