I submitted an article about Scribblenauts yesterday but something strange happened to it. It got approved, but for some reason, it was noted that:

"This news article is going to be removed and comments are not accepted."

Why was this done? I mean, the article was already approved.

Here's the link to the article:
http://www.gamegrep.com/blog/25311-scribblenauts_gameplay_really_is_flawed/

Chances are an approver made a mistake and a mod caught it and deleted it because they thought it shouldn't have been approved for whatever reason. I'm not sure who did it, but I'll try to find out why it was deleted for you.

It was removed because it wasn't gaming news or provided anything of use other than saying "Hah, we were right".

RabidChinaGirl approved it; Akira disagreed with its approval and removed it. I'd have to side with him on this one -- reading the post, it's not a substantial article, and more or less flaming within a blog post. That said, Akira should have explained why it was being removed -- it's mostly useless otherwise and just upsets people.

This message was edited by chautemoc on Sep 18 2009.

But it falls squarely in the "blog" category. These "blog" posts can be in the form of commentary and such.

Yeah, but your post was not that.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commentary

i.e. "an expression of opinion."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/commentary

i.e. "anything serving to illustrate a point, prompt a realization, or exemplify."

Furthermore, the post was originally approved.

That doesn't give you a guarantee to post absolutely any opinion for us to approve here. Your post was more suited to a forum or article comment than a blog -- that's why blogs are blogs and comments are comments.

Yes. And this is a community, and in any community there will be discrepancies of opinion from time to time.

This message was edited by chautemoc on Sep 22 2009.

No, the issue was mostly with the source material itself.

are you guys serious? most of the articles approved are just a stupid list of some kind. why don't you guys remove those? what kind of substantial news is in a list? and what about these window 7 news bits? these are all flamatory to pc users, why don't those get removed?

Hey I'm on your side with the lists, and would like to see a refinement of guidelines in what's acceptable to approve. But that won't happen unless enough people request it in the suggestions forum. Notice the lists typically all get high ratings. =/