Again, to quote Matt, "What I'd be interested to know is, how, if at all, would such changes impact on you? How would you or the Sphere be worse off?"
It's one thing to make light of the concerns that I have expressed, and it's all well and good if you do not share them, but why not indulge those concerns if there's no skin off your nose?
And of course it's Alex's decision. No one suggested otherwise. It very well may be that in his judgment the impact of my suggestion would discourage new members from joining, and, as I've said a few times, that is obviously a valid concern which may trump all the other concerns that I have mentioned.
Apart from membership, however, I can't see why anyone feels it would be better to make it as easy as possible for any of the earth's seven billion people to stop by and read non-final drafts of poems you post for critique.
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