(11-18-2012, 08:52 AM)Rose Love Wrote: I have a thought about this.i find it hard to let any poem pass by without leaving feedback but now we have lots of members who do post poetry and also post replies, i find that sometimes they're the ones i don't get round to as much. i mainly respond to the newbs in the hope of engaging them. i know how hard it is when you first join a new site. i'm just getting pissed at the moment because we have a fair few newbs where it's plain to see, they aren't interested in sharing in anything but their own work.
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.
socialising is a main part of this forum, it's about doing what you've done in the short time you've been here. whether it's socialising through feedback, poetry or just chewing the fat is fine, we just want members to interact. we want people who post poetry to leave replies. we want people who don't post poetry to take part in discussion or piss about in the pig's arse and sewer. sadly lots of people who do poetry aren't interested in anything but posting their poems.
(11-18-2012, 08:53 AM)rowens Wrote: Now, I can't see but half the screen. I can't read anything all the way through. I tried to reply to Penguin's last poem four times before any of my replies appeared on screen at all. It still said 0 replies. Then later, my first and last replies showed up, and I wondered if the thread wasn't working. So I kept trying to "bump" it. It finally worked. I still can't read the first half of the poem because of the malfunction on my side. But all my other recent posts went through. I saw Penguin had commented on many poems, and his poem had meanwhile been buried, so I thought it needed "bumping".bumping is good. but if possible do it with a response to the poem. i'm presuming you're on a tablet or phone if you can't see the posts properly, we're working on putting up a mobile app that should change that. by the way, you leave responses and feedback so i'm not pissed with you about that
i just took it as a personal slight (and yes, i know i shouldn't) the thing is penguine's got a mouth or keyboard, he's fairly intelligent though it's hard to tell
he and everyone else who writes a poem should bump their own poems if they get no replies. so the shout is out to them. bump your poem if you get no replies. 
(11-18-2012, 09:03 AM)Leanne Wrote: Having said that, seeing new people who do use the site as we intend it to be used gives me many warm fuzzies. Thank you to Rose, Luna, cidermaid and anyone else I've missed who has recently joined and is playing the game as it should be played.yeah to everything that came before the warm fuzz
and i definitely agree with regards to quality members who post in other peoples threads in an attempt to join in. we're one of the few sites of this sort that doesn't have any clique's. okay, there's mark and jack
but beside them there are no "special people" except sj in the sewer. don't alienate yourselves by being selfish.