Revision Process

[Todd]

So back on track: I think revisions get fewer comments because most of what needed to be said, has been said in the response to the original, and at least in my mind, it doesn't feel egalitarian to bump up a thread which already has a lot of comments on it, and which the commenting process always does, at the expense of more recent posts with fewer ones.

I think that's true. I think it's also true that after the first pass on a poem if the writer doesn't want to make certain changes that's their right as we're all just presenting options to consider (after we deal with basic technical errors). Further comment can either be seen as too heavy handed or warping to the result.

Or as milo said earlier, sometimes a revision has lost whatever first interested you in the poem.