What really gets to me is that so many of those people appear to be completely missing the fact that the rant is largely aimed not at people who delete their fic, but at people who make it so that their fics are gone forever and ever.

I'm really kind of saddened by how rude some of the people are being. Even on a rant community, one should be able to express an unpopular opinion without being jumped on, or called 'entitled.'