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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:04 AM
Chris O'Carroll Chris O'Carroll is offline
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Carolyn, I don't think Janice meant to say that you were violating any rule by posting a message here before you've posted 15 critiques. My understanding is that you may not post a poem of your own in one of the crit forums until you've paid your dues in that fashion, but you're free to chime in here and in the other chat, discussion, and good-time forums. Janice was simply saying (I think) that your posts here don't count toward the 15-crit score that you have to rack up before you can start workshopping your poems.

Forgive me, Janice, if I've misconstrued your meaning. And some moderator please weigh in with a correction if I've misstated the posting rules.
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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:20 AM
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Indeed the only reason I wrote this publicly was to try to keep the issue unmuddled and clear for other new members who will be thinking, "but when I posted before I did my qualifying crits, I got whacked in the head and what's this special treatment Carolyn is getting?"

It's not scandalous to post before the 15-limit. As I always told members in my moderator days, I did it myself (duh!) and was duly clamped down, i.e. my post locked.

IMO it is better to remind early to eliminate the bewilderment when a "real poem for crit" is locked though the system has released the new member. At least I think so, and I'm not trying to be thought police, I meant the caution kindly to avoid the embarrassment of thread-locking, which is worse IMO than a reminder of the rules.

It is OK to post at D&A or any of the conversational threads prior to the 15 qualifying crit limit. Otherwise post #1 would be blocked. A mod can correct me if I am wrong.

Sorry, for the disruption Wile E. Coyote fans and posters. And again, Carolyn, welcome aboard.

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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:26 AM
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In Wile E. Eratospherality
I post fifteen crits
all full of picked nits
and then I can post my poeality.

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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:31 AM
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What Chris said (which is what I thought I said, but maybe I wasn't clear enough).

I think Janice was somewhat ambiguous when she said "you aren't actually allowed to "post" until you have done your required number of crit posts". A crit post is, after all, a post, and that would logically suggest that you can't even post a "crit post" until you've posted a certain number of "crit posts", which you can't post until ... but that way madness lies.
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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:38 AM
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What Chris said (which is what I thought I said, but maybe I wasn't clear enough).

I think Janice was somewhat ambiguous when she said "you aren't actually allowed to "post" until you have done your required number of crit posts". A crit post is, after all, a post, and that would logically suggest that you can't even post a "crit post" until you've posted a certain number of "crit posts", which you can't post until ... but that way madness lies.
True, she was ambiguous. Chalk it up to trying sound nice rather than overweening (bow, bow, scrape, scrape) while worrying about spelling misteaks.

Carry on, Wile. E. guys.
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Unread 10-27-2012, 11:51 AM
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Phew! That's a relief, Janice. If you'd been in Richard III mode, you might have come back at me with "“Lash hence these overweening rags of France”.
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