06-06-2024, 09:03 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-06-2024, 09:13 AM by Quixilated.)
To reformat the pigpenpoetry home page to create a new forum is not something Tiger nor I can do. Only Addy could do it, and I don’t actually know how much of her time and effort would be involved in that request. Before we ask her to carve an entirely new space into the website, I would need to see many more members posting lyrics for critique than we currently have. There is not yet enough of this type of post to warrant creating a completely separate space to contain it.
As it currently stands, it should be sufficient to post the lyrics in any forum (misc, basic, moderate, intensive …) and simply label the post as ‘lyrics’ to let the commenters know to approach it as lyrics and not as poetry. The same members would be commenting either way (we only have so many active members at the moment), so the label is enough to help them know how to comment.
Also, it is my belief that the lyrics would receive more traffic and comments in a main forum where they would be seen by everyone than they would in a specialty forum where they would be isolated and perhaps only seen by people with specific interest in music.
I think that it could be beneficial to create a discussion thread about HOW to critique lyrics, especially focusing on how such critique might be different from how one would critique a poem (for example, repetition and rhyming might have different allowances in lyrics than they would in a poem), so that when people see the lyrics label they know how to approach the post.
If we eventually have enough people posting lyrics for critique, then we can revisit the idea of creating a separate forum to hold them. (And perhaps there are more people posting lyrics than I realize. Maybe seeing how frequently poets apply the label will give us cause to reconsider?)
I think it is good to have these discussions. It is helpful for us to hear member’s thoughts and wishes and opinions on any matter so that we can do a better job of maintaining this space in a way that makes you all happy to come here.
Anyway, this is just my own opinion.
—Quix
As it currently stands, it should be sufficient to post the lyrics in any forum (misc, basic, moderate, intensive …) and simply label the post as ‘lyrics’ to let the commenters know to approach it as lyrics and not as poetry. The same members would be commenting either way (we only have so many active members at the moment), so the label is enough to help them know how to comment.
Also, it is my belief that the lyrics would receive more traffic and comments in a main forum where they would be seen by everyone than they would in a specialty forum where they would be isolated and perhaps only seen by people with specific interest in music.
I think that it could be beneficial to create a discussion thread about HOW to critique lyrics, especially focusing on how such critique might be different from how one would critique a poem (for example, repetition and rhyming might have different allowances in lyrics than they would in a poem), so that when people see the lyrics label they know how to approach the post.
If we eventually have enough people posting lyrics for critique, then we can revisit the idea of creating a separate forum to hold them. (And perhaps there are more people posting lyrics than I realize. Maybe seeing how frequently poets apply the label will give us cause to reconsider?)
I think it is good to have these discussions. It is helpful for us to hear member’s thoughts and wishes and opinions on any matter so that we can do a better job of maintaining this space in a way that makes you all happy to come here.
Anyway, this is just my own opinion.
—Quix
The Soufflé isn’t the soufflé; the soufflé is the recipe. --Clara