Yes, it's hard to see how TDE could be made to work, barring something like Sam's suggestion, which seems a) unlikely to attract a volunteer and b) likely to end up causing bad feeling and controversy somewhere along the line.
If the critique were more in depth in TDE, I'd be inclined to post there. As it is, the critique isn't, and there's often less of it. Again, it's hard to see how the critique level could be policed, and if it could, who'd want that job?
The suggestion that's been made to make it private doesn't seem to address the issue of why it's not working. If it were hidden, it would then attract people who were concerned about posting publicly, that's true. But I can't see how that would affect the quality of the poems or the critique. It wouldn't be "The Deep End", but "The Dark End", which is a whole other thing.
Last edited by Matt Q; 05-16-2019 at 01:57 PM.
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