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Quality breeds quality, in my opinion. And I will say this: I have left poetry sites because of poor quality in both writing and feedback, but I have never and would never leave because a site sets an example of excellence that might be above me.
I've been thinking about this a bit more and have come to the conclusion that I write poetry partly because I love to read poetry. I don't see the point of a site on which you have to really work hard to find anything worth reading. That's not to say that every work posted should be instantly perfect -- obviously not. We'd all have to leave right now if that were the case...
But really, if a site were full of lousy poems that were all evidently thrown together and stuck out there for ego value, why would you bother to stay if you loved poetry? The only reason I can think of to pollute a site like that is if all you're doing is logging on, posting something, begging for comments and leaving "I love this" comments on other people's work just so you get some fake validation in return. Those sorts of sites are plentiful on the internet (cough... pathetic.com... cough) -- with a very few exceptions they are populated by attention seekers. I would much rather be part of a site which encourages a love of the language in general and allows people to reach their full potential as writers. Keeping people mediocre is the government's job.
I've been thinking about this a bit more and have come to the conclusion that I write poetry partly because I love to read poetry. I don't see the point of a site on which you have to really work hard to find anything worth reading. That's not to say that every work posted should be instantly perfect -- obviously not. We'd all have to leave right now if that were the case...
But really, if a site were full of lousy poems that were all evidently thrown together and stuck out there for ego value, why would you bother to stay if you loved poetry? The only reason I can think of to pollute a site like that is if all you're doing is logging on, posting something, begging for comments and leaving "I love this" comments on other people's work just so you get some fake validation in return. Those sorts of sites are plentiful on the internet (cough... pathetic.com... cough) -- with a very few exceptions they are populated by attention seekers. I would much rather be part of a site which encourages a love of the language in general and allows people to reach their full potential as writers. Keeping people mediocre is the government's job.
by Leanne on Apr. 28 2007