When “writers” would come onto Slack asking to be added as a writer, no one would vet them. They were simply added. Not me. I want to see 12 but I’ll settle for 6 self-published articles. I’m looking to see how well you can write WITHOUT an editor. I didn’t want my fellow editors working any more free hours than they already were.

I told one guy that his submission wouldn’t even qualify as a rough draft. It was THAT bad. I peppered the piece with PNs and told him to resubmit it after he made the corrections. Editors in general, free editors specifically, should not have to through that.

Then they would ask to be added to all 3 or 4 of the 6 publications under that same umbrella. Again, I’d look at their profile. They hadn’t written anything genre-specific to the publications that they wanted to be added?

Why would I add you to a humor publication for example if you’ve not written the first humorous piece?

Many “writers” and say that meaning they're here for the easy money, just want to load up their profiles with I’m a writer at x number of publications and then don’t submit to them or, submit and get rejected. So you have a padded Medium resume and no work to show for it.

A waste of everyone’s time.