01-08-2026, 08:49 AM
To be completely honest, we are already extremely casual about the feedback requirement. We don't actually require feedback "before" a poem is posted. We say we do, but it's not like we ban anyone or delete poems the way we once did. We leave a note if they haven't left feedback after a few days (which I don't think is unreasonable). Usually people who have many poems to share do end up leaving feedback. The ones who only had one poem to post never come back to leave feedback, but they also weren't going to post more poems anyway. The rules are already so incredibly relaxed (especially compared to how they used to be) simply out of lack of manpower and also a bit of laziness that there are already almost no rules. We already don't pester anyone about feedback if they are posting outside the workshops. Anyone can come and post poems in the other forums and we would only mention feedback if they are posting endless poems and zero comments. I don't mind being even more relaxed about feedback in the basic forum (by that I mean not leaving a feedback-note on their first poem in that forum). We can re-word the rules on that forum if you want, but, I'm not sure any newbie really reads them before posting anyway. As long as all the other mods agree, I don't mind giving newbies in the basic forum one free pass.
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