Is any critique truly objective?

[billy]

I now regret having been quite so frank in my comments to more than a few newbies. I guess I figured if I had become thick-skinned, everyone should.

So far, this place is just the right size.

Sid

i think you bring up a great point, what good is objectivity if it scares would be poets away from writing poetry. beating them with solid truth can be too harsh. i know what you say about the site being just the right size Sid and i agree to a point. the thing is; if a couple of people are away we're struggling to get new/fresh work up.

personally i'd like to see another 5 or 6 competent poets and another 10 or twenty who are fairly new to poetry who want to improve. i think we need more news than competent poets so we keep as much objectivity as possible. what i do hate is when a site begins to have cliques, for me that's the breeding ground for back patting poetry and the loss of any objectivity anyone has.