i agree there is a problem. yesterday i posted my first submission and it went to the #1 position on this site twice and was deleted by wecanhelp twice for violating rule 2, even after i edited it to address their concern by providing a source. 95% of the submission was my own personal childhood memory and the 5% that was a claim i was very careful to use the word "alleged" at all times and backed it up with a linked source. it still got deleted for violating rule 2. i wrote to wecanhelp and offered to fix the problem but wecanhelp refuses to clarify what i did wrong.

here is exactly what i wrote to wecanhelp:

"ok sure, i don't mind doing that. i would like to abide by the rules. obviously the source of my own personal experiences is me. can you please tell me which claims i have failed to source?"

no response.

Although i was happy to make further revisions, what i wrote was fine, sufficiently backed and should not have been deleted. i'm a journalist with over 20 years at a mainstream news network that were i to name it here, not a single person would fail to recognize it. i think i'm a decent judge. i see all kinds of sketchy and speculative things written on this forum which are allowed to remain. but when i write about my own personal experience it gets deleted. i find that incredibly arbitrary. unfortunately having a little power makes some people arbitrary-- and sometimes mean and abusive as well.

this experience has discouraged me and made me less interested in coming back here and now i see that i am not the only one.