lyrics subforum

[Quixilated]

You have already supplied a live example of lyrics critique on Wjames’s “All Too Much.”  I wasn’t asking for an example of critique.  I was asking for a list of rules for critique that can be used as a reference for those who might be new to critique of lyrics.  I want a set of guidelines that are different from the guidelines we use for poetry written out in a helpful list. It can be a collaboration if you post it in a separate discussion thread. 

Also, I will reiterate that the real issue is not what would or would not happen in the forum.  The issue is that we barely have enough members posting as a whole to even keep site going at all.  As far as I can tell, we have about 5-10 members who post consistently.  Others wander in and then back out again, but the weight of the pigpen is being carried by only a handful. It is my opinion that we simply do not have the numbers at present to warrant slicing the site into smaller sections. It just isn’t logical.  I am only one member of the mod team, so my opinion is fractional.  We are still discussing.

The concerns about whether or not it should be a separate sub forum (one by the way, two is not on the table) are the concerns that are relevant to me, so those are the matters I am looking into.  What the critique would look like is not relevant to me because  I know that we have some talented members who can knock their critique out of the park.  If we had a sub forum, these same members would naturally do it justice. I’m not worried about that. 

It’s really just about the numbers. With so few members it is the same five people who would see the lyrics and comment whether they are in misc or somewhere else.  Changing the forum doesn’t change the members who would be commenting, so why make them have to go to yet one more location to find things?  When the site has more members, I would be more open to creating specialized sub forums.