I would hate for this site to become hard to find for novice formalists and others. On the other hand, more and more editors seem to be Googling workshopped poems and then rejecting them if they can find them. Right now, the Drills and Amusements forum is apparently not being pruned at all, so if I post something there that I later decide to try submitting somewhere, I have to go back and delete it myself. More frequent pruning might help solve the problem, if posters can be a bit patient in waiting till well after a poem is pruned before submitting it somewhere.
I don't really like the idea of having to register (even as a guest) before I have a right even to see what a workshop looks like. I would never have found this site if Alicia had not directed me to it. The more difficult we make it for new people to find their way here, the fewer will come. At least if part of the site (where poems are not being tried out) is available to anyone, we might attract enough attention that people will then be curious about the workshops and register as a guest to see them.
I wish we could keep things the way they were, but people's use of the Internet keeps changing, so we may have to change with it.
Susan
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