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Originally Posted by Elise Hempel
I thought there was an Eratosphere rule about accepting crits. I thought that's what we're supposed to do. Michael -- you seem to be someone who adheres to and polices the rules. I don't really care about starting arguments or not. Are we supposed to accept crits or not, whether we do it nicely or not?
p.s. I've seen beginners insulted on this forum, told they shouldn't be here. But it seems to me that these are the very people who need it the most. What's the point of an accomplished poet posting a poem here if he/she never intended for it to be critiqued in the first place? I think I have a legitimate question.
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Most people on this board do respond to crits little by little, pride notwithstanding; so slowly sometimes that it is almost unnoticeable. I know that I am not the translator I was when I first started. As for beginners being insulted, the folks here are usually too PC to do that. They may condescendingly correct, however. Anyway, I remember they once went slumming in praise of a "natural born talent", some sort of farmer, I believe, whose composition was peppered with inversions, most of them hackneyed. There's no doubt that this subject could improve (otherwise I doubt they'd have bothered with him); but many, despite their talent, are just plain lazy and won't put in the frustrating amount of time it takes to get the respect of the members in the board's day to day evaluations, much less to perhaps get accepted for its annual competitions. Not everyone is a gifted freak of nature, and, consequently, can't "conjure up" on the spot a genius rhyme or turn of phrase, but will, lying abed, get up and scribble down what he/she imagines is an improvement of what was penned that morning, and so on and on, whatever it takes.