07-08-2015, 04:40 AM
If you want to write poetry, yet say you can't read poetry, that's more like wanting to learn to drive when you still haven't figured out how to take the training wheels off your bike.
A quick look at the novice forum would have shown you that the requirement is not onerous -- it's a matter of reading the poem and leaving comments that indicate you've actually thought about it for more than thirteen seconds. But we've all explained this again and again, ad infinitum. These are our rules and they've been developed for good reasons. One doesn't join up to the country club and demand to be allowed to wear overalls to dinner because it's too much bother to get changed after work -- one either makes an effort, accepts the rules or goes elsewhere.
A quick look at the novice forum would have shown you that the requirement is not onerous -- it's a matter of reading the poem and leaving comments that indicate you've actually thought about it for more than thirteen seconds. But we've all explained this again and again, ad infinitum. These are our rules and they've been developed for good reasons. One doesn't join up to the country club and demand to be allowed to wear overalls to dinner because it's too much bother to get changed after work -- one either makes an effort, accepts the rules or goes elsewhere.
It could be worse