11-18-2012, 08:52 AM
I have a thought about this.
I have been watching you diligently reply to everyone, and I have noticed at least one person in particular you keep replying to who keeps posting up new poems time and again without ever interacting with anyone else on the site in any way, as if it were some free service for this one person. I have been thinking or waiting for you to stop replying to that person's poems.
I would suggest that after a certain number of poems posted by a person, if you can see they are not interacting or participating on the site, you might consider ignoring further poetry posts by them and just respond to new ones and ones by "old" members with 0 replies on them.
Socializing may not be the main point of this particular forum, but...I think online forums are usually, if not always, created with a social aspect in mind, and if someone is just going to come here, post poems, take feedback and not talk to anyone otherwise, then there is no community, and maybe they are not interested in poetry enough, or maybe their interest is purely self-centric. Maybe they should just go away and take a creative writing class instead.
I have been watching you diligently reply to everyone, and I have noticed at least one person in particular you keep replying to who keeps posting up new poems time and again without ever interacting with anyone else on the site in any way, as if it were some free service for this one person. I have been thinking or waiting for you to stop replying to that person's poems.
I would suggest that after a certain number of poems posted by a person, if you can see they are not interacting or participating on the site, you might consider ignoring further poetry posts by them and just respond to new ones and ones by "old" members with 0 replies on them.
Socializing may not be the main point of this particular forum, but...I think online forums are usually, if not always, created with a social aspect in mind, and if someone is just going to come here, post poems, take feedback and not talk to anyone otherwise, then there is no community, and maybe they are not interested in poetry enough, or maybe their interest is purely self-centric. Maybe they should just go away and take a creative writing class instead.