02-03-2026, 11:33 AM
My first thing was posting three poems in less than five minutes and not giving any feedback anywhere else, as I wasn't interested in reading anyone else's poetry.
It was also the first time I'd used the Internet since 2002. And I was simply looking for places to dump what I'd written over the last decade and then forgetting about it.
I wasn't aware that there were online communities where people talked to each other. I thought it was like a do it yourself publishing thing.
Then billy told me what the site was about. I didn't read the rules when I came on the site because I didn't care. I also posted on other sites like that. People made all kinds of positive comments and even marked some of my poems as having won a prize, which didn't seem very impressive as almost every poem anybody wrote had a prize, and the prize was simply someone pressing a button saying that you had won a prize.
Bimbo didn't want to be a member until he realized that all the other members where Betty Boop.
Give each new person a name under their username instead of Newbie based on their first poem. Sometimes just make it something random. For instance, under Fruitiper's name, write
Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!
It was also the first time I'd used the Internet since 2002. And I was simply looking for places to dump what I'd written over the last decade and then forgetting about it.
I wasn't aware that there were online communities where people talked to each other. I thought it was like a do it yourself publishing thing.
Then billy told me what the site was about. I didn't read the rules when I came on the site because I didn't care. I also posted on other sites like that. People made all kinds of positive comments and even marked some of my poems as having won a prize, which didn't seem very impressive as almost every poem anybody wrote had a prize, and the prize was simply someone pressing a button saying that you had won a prize.
Bimbo didn't want to be a member until he realized that all the other members where Betty Boop.
Give each new person a name under their username instead of Newbie based on their first poem. Sometimes just make it something random. For instance, under Fruitiper's name, write
Listen; your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground!