Allen wrote:
(((By the way --- what's the problem with things going to the top of the stack? I'm not so mechanical that I can't bypass something that reappears once I have determined it's not my kind of thing rhythmically or otherwise. I use my mind.)))
Terry, apologies for another digression, but the question comes up every so often and might as well be answered.
Allen, the thread at the top of the stack on each board is the one highlighted on the main page, and when it's had a lot of posts it's also marked in various ways as something needing/deserving to be looked at. So every additional bump is another bid for attention, and it's considered bad manners for the poet to bump his own poem too often. It's also considered bad manners to push newer poems down while bumping up older ones.
And every additional thread on the board pushes an older one off the front page and into something-like-oblivion. (After a while, that's a good thing, but it needs to be thought about when the boards are very active.)
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