[Roger Slater]

OK, though it sounds strange, I now understand that the poem doesn't go between the tags. You simply put both the tags at the top of the posting.

But I still thought Alex was saying:

1. The default moving forward is that there's no need for the tags at all in the workshop forums. (Though you can always put them in as a belt and suspenders sort of redundancy).

2. Moving forward, in the non-workshop forums, you can opt to use the tags to hide a given post or thread.

Is this correct?

When tags are needed, I still don't understand whether the tags will affect the whole thread. If they do, is this only the case for the posts following the one in which the tags are found, or does it affect all posts, even those that came before? If it only affects the single post, this could be a problem because you have to rely upon anyone quoting distinctive portions of your poem to place the tags in as well.

[Maryann Corbett]

To Roger's point about people quoting distinctive portions of the poem in critique:

The mods have had some discussion, in the past, about requests to edit out such bits of poems, and we've agreed we'll do it for blocks of text.

Those of us who like to do in-line critique probably ought to develop the habit of inserting the code at the top of our posts UNLESS the whole forum is hidden, and I think Alex is saying that it is.

P.S. I don't think the issue of more frequent pruning is moot or dead.

[Chris Childers]

Yeah, sure, prune every two weeks, sounds good to me.

How long do things remain in Google's cache? I just googled a poem I posted in January and was able to read the whole deleted thread by clicking on the cache. & will Alex's new code affect things posted a while ago that have not been pruned yet?

Chris

[Clive Watkins]

Dear Maryann

By all means prune more frequently if that is not too much of a chore for you.

Thanks for all you do around here!

Best...

Clive