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Who suddenly made You an expert on poetry? You haven't even written one so you wouldn't know a good one from a bad one.
Actually I have written poems but I don't post them on Lush because it's Lush STORIES. The second sentence is so asinine that I don't even want to get into the reasons why because you wouldn't even understand.
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You don't like ANY of mine yet 2 of them have Recommended Reads, as do a lot of other poems on lush. A great many poems have EP's. Those aren't given out freely and it is not just the opinion of one mod either. Does that mean you don't know a good poem from a bad one? Or does it mean your EP's and RR's suck?
2 RRs out of the dozens of poems you've pooped out isn't a very good track record to be honest... And those are the opinion of one moderator. According to you the moderator that gave you those should be a poetry poster as well or else they don't mean anything.
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I've never hidden the fact I would be upset if the poetry category was canned but I don't post on the forums saying all stories or one particular category sucks. Don't readers want variety? If I had $1 for every time a reader told me they hadn't bothered reading poetry until they noticed one or two on the home page or elsewhere, I would be able to shout a few gold memberships. They are only the ones who have mentioned it.
I said 99% of the poems suck, not all of them. Two of the people I follow only post poems. I don't follow many people either. If you notice, those poets don't post all the time. They post only quality work.
Readers do want variety... That's why the people that run this site decided to de-clog the front page of endless generic poetry by making a specific tab for it. The only problem I see now is that the poets are going to be annoyed that the poetry tab is now clogged up by the poets that post crap everyday. That's why I believe that people should only post their very best one, once a month. Once a week at the most.
Also, that's not very many dollars trinket...and you're probably exaggerating to begin with.
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So if readers have to specifically look for the poetry my guess is it's going to bring the numbers down on the poetry.
But I thought the poets were saying that their poetry is about their creative expression not numbers...hmmmm. I guess this is why some of them post so many...hmmmm.
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It's evident a lot of members think poetry is easier to write than a story. A lot of people who say that have never tried writing a decent poem.
No, endless BAD poetry (and stories) to fish for comments and votes from friends is easier to write. There was a writer here before that used to post a story everyday too... Guess what? Those sucked also.
You seem to be caught up on, "only people that have published a poem know good poetry". I wish they would only let published poets vote and comment on poems. You guys would get even less attention and post less, even though it's supposedly about your creative expression LOL.
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It doesn't matter now anyway. It's been done.
