Yea, well. I thought that writing.com being an established site as it was would have a retention policy that wasn't something concocted by two old farts living in a basement running a website off their pentium 2 PC. Afterall, it's the 21st century and we're in the web 2.0 around these place, but alas no.
Not to mention these are the same geniuses that blocked archive.org from backing up content with robots.txt. sigh