Thank you for raising the issue, Maryann. I join the chorus of those who would like their poems "gone" sooner. Just yesterday I deleted one of my poems in Met. It hadn't been commented on in two weeks and I've long been done with it, but it didn't meet the guidelines to be pruned this month, and I didn't want to burden you with asking (again) that it be removed. I know some people get upset when poems are deleted like that, but as grateful as I always am for the comments and critique, I don't feel I need to warn anyone that I'm deleting my own poem. Speeding up the pruning process would help avoid this problem.
As far a making this a "log-in" site? I wonder if I would have ever found this place or made a commitment to it if it had been "log-in only." I doubt it. If I couldn't have seen the quality of the poems without giving registration info., I don't think I would have stuck around. I spent months reading here before I joined. I don't think I'm alone in that, though maybe it isn't common. It feels kind of elitist to me (but perhaps I don't fully understand the system Roger wants to implement). I rarely comment at the Gaz, but I do read there often, and I'm not logged in when I do, so whatever system they have, it isn't the one people here are discussing (I don't think). I'll go along with whatever is decided, but I'd rather see how pruning more often works first, unless someone convinces me otherwise.
marybeth
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