Bravo for stating the obvious.
OP’s entire post is a sub-par, shotgun Creative Writing 101. If ANet writers need this kind of help with the most basic aspects of creative writing at this level, they shouldn’t have their job.
This thread shouldn’t exist. At the level of commercial delivery of a creative writing piece, the part of the writing process to which this thread belongs (i.e. editing, review and/or BASIC INSTRUCTION ON HOW TO WRITE) should be taken care of internally within ANet and never put in the hands of the player-base. By virtue of this thread’s existence, it says that the player-base is willing to hold the writer’s hands—which is something that a consumer should never feel like they have to do. Do you go to a restaurant, order food, and then proceed to the kitchen to oversee and help the chef because you can’t trust the guy to get it right? OP’s attitude simply feeds second chances to bad writers that deserve nothing more than a good sacking.
The point delivered by this thread’s OP is that ANet writers need instruction. If they need instruction; they shouldn’t be writing commercially and expecting criticism. Delivering “Season 1 of GW2 Living Story”-tier writing for commercial consumption is to expect nothing but insults or college-professor-level corrections (the latter of which, once again, shouldn’t be the responsibility of the consumer). Even so, they went through with it. And the best part of our story is: when they received all of the insults, they just responded with bans/ignored it because it hurt their feelings instead of thinking “Wow, clearly something is horribly wrong, and maybe we should take a look at our writing process.”
tl;dr
The thread is bad; the guy who made it—while well-intentioned—is bad; the people who upvoted it—again, while probably well-intentioned—are bad.
