Cameron, that is correct—before your first poem you need a mod/admin to verify that you've done 15 substantive critiques. I think Roger misread you as suggesting that everyone always needs to do so, which is of course not true.
Re: the topic at hand, my sense (having had my adolescence during the golden years of online discussion forums) is that the internet has simply moved away from discussion forums in general. They see less activity across the board. All the forums of my youth are shells of their former selves if they exist at all, and even the Sphere is less active than it was even four years ago when I joined, let alone in its heyday.
Last edited by Aaron Novick; 07-07-2020 at 02:47 PM.
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