Deletions for off-topic happens in a lot of threads. It doesn't have to be reported and, in fact, I doubt that I've ever seen a post reported for being off-topic. I suppose that there are posters who do make such reports, which may explain why they think such reports happened here.
The point I made earlier about being intimidated by a blank page is pretty mucyh what i read into Crush's comments. He never thinks that his own work (starting from a blank page) is very good, perhaps because he struggles to get over the blank page, and then he seems to struggle with editing his own work. Getting an initial draft from someone means that he isn't editing his own work, he's editing someone else's so there's no ego involvement.
It certainly wouldn't hurt him to try. His current process is not working.
The discussion of the existence or nature of off-topic reports is itself off-topic. Fun, but *someone* is watching and the thread would get yet shorter. Soon, the thread could get down to one page that is made up solely of Crush posts, which are I suppose on-topic by nature*.
Still, at the risk of being off-topic, let us look at this:
"Deletions for off-topic happens in a lot of threads. It doesn't have to be reported and, in fact, I doubt that I've ever seen a post reported for being off-topic"
As a fellow teacher, I discount points.
*It is not a tragedy, but is instead again tragicomic, if the thread reaches this state, and I would be amused and not troubled by that outcome. After all, memes do not become legendary memes by being commonplace instead of exceptional.
I don't know if Crush struggles with a blank page or not, or at least I have not seen evidence of it. I have read where he starts over after finding some writing unsexy, which is a well-known thing in creators in various activities. If this is true, I had advice for him. If people have a suboptimal situation and are aware of it, the next logical step is to try to solve it instead of coexisting with the problem indefinitely.
I'm not sure if he is actually receiving much writing that is started by others: haven't seen evidence either way. However, if this is happening or not happening, it could be time for a change either way.
**Also I find this an assertion that I never said anything
ad hominem, which is patently false because I thought I had spent a great deal of time doing so intentionally (again off-topic, an Internet discussion of over 2 posts, without fallacies, is not Internet discussion at all). I didn't do that intentionally on accident (again, an impossibility). Still, let this not be a statement that I don't want a chew toy. Instead, I welcome chew toys.
