!The White Wolf

THANK THE LORD JESUS FOR THIS THREAD!!!

I am honestly sick and tired of reporting posts that equal to crap! It got to a point where I refused to go into the poetry forum because of all the crappy feedback members were giving the authors, just to increase their own post count. I mean COME ON PEOPLE.

"That poem was just so amazingly written, well done! "



"Great job, keep up the good work!"



"WOW, I've never seen anything written like that before! I hope to see more of your stuff in the forums! "




Honestly, if you have nothing to say or are speechless because the poem was just SO great and there isn't any possible criticism available to give, yet you still want to let the writer know how great it was.. follow Gren's advice and PM THE BOY! Don't crowd valuable postage space with your useless nonsense crap! That's just rude. It's disrespectful to the person who wrote the poem, and disrespectful to the poetry section of AO!

DON'T. DO IIITT!!!!


I would personally like to see the quality of some of these poems improve through the roof, but that isn't my boat to jump on. I have noticed as well that many of the poems here are attacking various members, and that just completely pisses me off. The people who write those poems only do it to embarrass whoever it is they're pissed off at, and honestly, that is ridiculous. Mecha, I agree almost 100% with your way of thinking on this, except I believe Divine_Punishment did infact mean to say "quality". Users cannot improve on their "substance/meaning/emotion". There is no way to "improve" on what you feel. You, sir. Are the one putting people in a box creatively. You believe they should have this certain way of feeling, or a certain way of thinking. Nonono, putting someone in a box creatively is the number one catalyst in killing their creativity.

I believe members here are confused. I think they feel as though the poetry forum in AO is an equivalent to their diary.. WHICH THAT IS DEFINATELY NOT THE CASE.

So, I say. If you're going to bash someone in the head here at AO, do it discretely. Don't do something as foolish as state,

"This poem is to someone here at AO. They're horrible and I feel they should be eating dirt with the ants."

Or state their username in the poem like the idiot that you are.
That just degrades you as a person, and makes others look down at you. If that's what you want, then by all means.. go ahead. Make a fool of yourself. Otherwise, cut the middle school crap and write some damn good poetry about how pissed off you are at this mother.

And about the quality.
People, I'd advise you to listen to Mechazawa.

The Thesaurus and Dictionary are your friends!
Please, look towards them when getting your complicated emotions down on paper.
I assure you, the poem will come out 200% better than what it would have had you not searched for better words, or checked if that was the proper way to spell it.