02-28-2012, 05:50 AM
Yes.
I'd like to think that people wouldn't say online anything they wouldn't say if the person were sitting across a coffee shop table with a hot espresso. In a real-life workshop, you present your work expecting to have errors or possible improvements pointed out, but if the critic is a complete arse you have the option of smacking him across the head. As there can be no smacking here, it's best to avoid the situation so that we don't have members frustrated by violent yearnings. Please remember that these are not imaginary people inside your computer, they're real people who deserve your respect no matter how bad their poems are
Unless they don't say thank you, or call you names in return for your balanced critique, in which case... well...
mods will deal with it (I have to say that, the lawyers said so)
I'd like to think that people wouldn't say online anything they wouldn't say if the person were sitting across a coffee shop table with a hot espresso. In a real-life workshop, you present your work expecting to have errors or possible improvements pointed out, but if the critic is a complete arse you have the option of smacking him across the head. As there can be no smacking here, it's best to avoid the situation so that we don't have members frustrated by violent yearnings. Please remember that these are not imaginary people inside your computer, they're real people who deserve your respect no matter how bad their poems are
Unless they don't say thank you, or call you names in return for your balanced critique, in which case... well...
mods will deal with it (I have to say that, the lawyers said so)
It could be worse