| Maryann Corbett |
12-08-2009 08:17 AM |
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Originally Posted by Ann Drysdale
(Post 135371)
Going back to the original question. Where does it say anywhere in the rubric that spell-check is expected? What is obvious to a newcomer is that more preparation of text is expected in TDE so perhaps for Metrical itself there should be a few gentle guidelines as to the state/standard expected. I realise I've used the word "expected" three times.
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Ann, there's no written guideline that says we expect members to run a spell-check program, certainly. I wasn't sure when I first read Petra's initial post that she meant a program. We do expect people to proofread for various little errors; I have to remind myself where we say that.
Reading the General Talk board, one learns about a great many "expectations" that are not written down anywhere, and that are not, in fact, everybody's expectations. This is the one place we have to hash out these differences, so on GT we sometimes give the impression that we're intolerant in various ways.
For example, some members have insisted that unless there's a revision, the poet isn't workshopping in good faith. Some don't want to see too many revisions that are too different. Some get ruffled when their critiques aren't directly reciprocated. Some don't want to see too many individual "thank you" posts. Some don't want to see threads on GT that are merely links to amusing matter elsewhere. About all those "expectations," and many others, there are no written rules, but there's a wide range of opinion.
I guess my only counsel is tolerance.
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I want to go back to the poetry.
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