The Met/Deep End division mostly exists in the minds of a few long-time members, I imagine, though Rick does have a point about the two boards having different styles. But hey, traffic at one versus the other has fluctuated before, and it's more like picking a room to hang out in at a party than the person one intends to marry, so things will almost certainly remain as they are for inertial reasons, if nothing else.
I would also imagine that few if any editors pay much attention to the reaction individual poems got on the boards when one sees them in slush piles--I at times remember having seen things on crit boards, but rarely the tenor of discussion, and even if I do, it isn't a consideration. But more than that, has any editor ever said, "Well, I like this poem, but I can't help but feel that if its author had only posted it on Eratosphere's Deep End, it would be even better. I suppose I'll reject." I doubt it.
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