Non-compliance with feedback requirements

[abu nuwas]

I think its fair to say all of this sounds a little more scary than it really is.

Anyone who tries to be a contributing member will not be punished- and I am not speaking for billy, Leanne or TPP when I say that I am just speaking from experience. These are nice folks and knowing them, they are only doing this because they feel they have to.

The staff is not looking for ways to get rid of people, or embarrass anyone but trying to find ways to help everyone understand that it is rude and selfish to only participate in your own threads.

I understand the reasoning, and appreciate that it is you guys who do the hard yards, and can arrange things in whatever way suits. For what it is worth, I have rather liked the fairly laid-back attitude here, and wonder if this does not detract from that in a small way. Presumably, no-one else thinks, as I do, that the bad guys are all different people, with different reasons for behaving as they do, so that a proportion of them, one might think, are likely to be holding back because of a certain, reserve or timidity. My inclination would be to give people a lecture on the way in, and tell them they would have to read and give proper feedback, before they could post their first poem --and would be expected to continue to do so. I sense that that would ,as it were, break the ice: having once done the crit, they would find it easier to do the next time.

I have noticed that you yourself, Billy, attend to an enormous number of posts, and I see that it must be dispiriting to see your efforts so ill-rewarded. Perhaps the site is suffering from its own success!

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well said.

Please see my comment to Mark. He may be surprised to see me call him Billy!