Actually Roger, it doesn't just say "minimum", it says 15 for poetry, 3 for fiction (and I believe 3 for translations.
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As a new Member, you have to undergo a small apprenticeship before posting your own works for critique on the Metrical, Non-Metrical, and Fiction Forums: you must wait at least one week following your Membership approval and offer a minimum number of substantive critiques before starting a thread of your own. The minimum number of critiques for poetry is fifteen on the Metrical, Deep End, and Non-Metrical Forums combined. For the Fiction Forum, the minimum is three.Note, however, that the new-post privileges are no longer enabled automatically. Thus, as a new member, once you think you've achieved the required fifteen critiques, you'll need to contact the moderator of the forum where you intend to post to, and s/he will verify that you've indeed made fifteen substantive critiques, and if so, your new-post privileges will be enabled.
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But probably no new member contacts the moderators for permission to post.
Does this mean that posting at D&A a few times is a free pass to post poems without crit? Or does the 15 / 3 / 3 crit still apply. It's good if we all know what rules (guidelines) apply once the new member moves to a workshop board?
There were several reasons for the rule, or so I was inculcated in the distant past, but perhaps those reasons are no longer valid.
I believe that the "starting new thread" means "do not post poems until you have done your crits". In the sticky above each forum, this is clearly states. (Boldfaced as in original.)
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NEW MEMBERS may respond to existing poetry threads but may not start any new ones of their own until they have offered at least 15 critiques, AND until at least one week following membership approval, unless by special permission from any Eratosphere moderator. This limitation is part of the registration agreement for all registrants who signed up after January 21, 2004, and applies to all critical forums.
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I'm not bucking the moderator authority, just giving the thinking behind my (humorously intended) post to Erik--who I do not doubt acted with enthusiasm.
May I suggest that the rules and guidelines are clarified where appropriate?