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butters said:
the word 'clique' is synonymous of exclusion. i see groups of people who enjoy writing together - most of which do not actively exclude. I certainly do NOT think your behaviour has been exclusive - rather the opposite in your comments on others' poetry contributions, such as in the 30/30 thread. as to others, it sometimes appears to me that anyone is welcome so long as you agree to agree. Still, we're none of us forced to write and comment with/on others, and so the whole clique issue is a bit of a non-issue imo. Although i don't think you always handle things the best way (and who here can say they always do themselves?), I do appreciate your honesty and forthrightness. Give me that over sycophancy and snide remarks, insincerity and double-speak ANY day. :rose: That way, if i think you're wrong, I'll tell you straight :D
Annie, I have to say that in my eyes your post is uncalled for, deliberately provocative, and not a true reflection of how many other posters feel. I won't speak for others, but I know they don't feel the way you're suggesting because of what they've told me and through what they have posted here. You are, of course, free to speak your mind and it's deliberately encouraged here - hence my feeling free to speak my own mind on this issue.
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Provocative it may be but I'm sick of having everything I post jumped upon as an attack when I wasn't even addressing him. Seems I'm not the only one whose posts have been assumed to have hidden agendas. It's not addressing him I have moved on, something that others seem incapable of doing.
 
Poets' Corner - got a banana that is ripe? Air it out here like so ---> :nana:
 
butters said:
the word 'clique' is synonymous of exclusion. i see groups of people who enjoy writing together - most of which do not actively exclude. I certainly do NOT think your behaviour has been exclusive - rather the opposite in your comments on others' poetry contributions, such as in the 30/30 thread. as to others, it sometimes appears to me that anyone is welcome so long as you agree to agree. Still, we're none of us forced to write and comment with/on others, and so the whole clique issue is a bit of a non-issue imo. Although i don't think you always handle things the best way (and who here can say they always do themselves?), I do appreciate your honesty and forthrightness. Give me that over sycophancy and snide remarks, insincerity and double-speak ANY day. :rose: That way, if i think you're wrong, I'll tell you straight :D
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Thank you, butters; I'll be counting on you to keep me honest. :D
 
UnderYourSpell said:
Not everything is about you, you know ............ have you sought help for your paranoia? It's getting that nobody dare post just in case you decide to take it personally
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UnderYourSpell said:
Provocative it may be but I'm sick of having everything I post jumped upon as an attack when I wasn't even addressing him. Seems I'm not the only one whose posts have been assumed to have hidden agendas. It's not addressing him I have moved on, something that others seem incapable of doing.
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You know, I'll show you what "moving on" actually means by not responding to the above.
 
- got a gripe?

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*Aside to no-one in particular* Explaining sarcasm is a bit like trying to point out to a thicko what a joke was all about
 
My gripe is I don't recognize the organization of the PF&D forum or its sub-forum. How do things work? I thought Poets' Hangout was where people put their personal 'me, me, me' threads and PF&D was interactive.
 
Epmd607 said:
My gripe is I don't recognize the organization of the PF&D forum or its sub-forum. How do things work? I thought Poets' Hangout was where people put their personal 'me, me, me' threads and PF&D was interactive.
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so far as i always understood things, the Hangout is kind of like the watercooler/bar - a place to chat about anything and everything, though with poets there's a high possibility of it being poetry-related at some stage.

for the main forum, i believed it to be a place to post poetry (for feedback, discussion or storage), poetry challenges, and poetry-related discussion threads. hence Feedback and Discussion. The 'me me me' threads, as you call them, seems a kind of ugly way to describe threads some of us deploy (for storage and any possible feedback they engender) - makes it sound as if we're attention-seeking. :(

you do, however, raise a valid point inasmuch as there's overlapping and a certain fogginess about what's intended to go where.

Angeline's repositioning of some threads has managed one thing: - it makes the Hangout more visible, more visited, more... relevant as a place to visit and chat. Does it mean some of us are less focused on writing poetry? possibly, but i'm sure when writers are ready to write they will do exactly that :)
 
Epmd607 said:
My gripe is I don't recognize the organization of the PF&D forum or its sub-forum. How do things work? I thought Poets' Hangout was where people put their personal 'me, me, me' threads and PF&D was interactive.
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There isn't a lot of organization in the forum, but that does not mean things don't work.

PF&D is intended for remarks about poems and discussion of such. That is such a broad description, anything but a link to a website that sells knock off designer purses, fits in there somewhere. For the most part, it works as intended. PF&D gets most of the poems and discussions about poems and poetry, and PH gets questions such as yours.

It would be possible to move threads from one forum to the other, if they were truly out of place, but no one has ever requested such an action, so I see no reason to do so.

It's enough just to keep the designer knockoff purses out of the place.
 
butters said:
so far as i always understood things, the Hangout is kind of like the watercooler/bar - a place to chat about anything and everything, though with poets there's a high possibility of it being poetry-related at some stage.

for the main forum, i believed it to be a place to post poetry (for feedback, discussion or storage), poetry challenges, and poetry-related discussion threads. hence Feedback and Discussion. The 'me me me' threads, as you call them, seems a kind of ugly way to describe threads some of us deploy (for storage and any possible feedback they engender) - makes it sound as if we're attention-seeking. :(

you do, however, raise a valid point inasmuch as there's overlapping and a certain fogginess about what's intended to go where.

Angeline's repositioning of some threads has managed one thing: - it makes the Hangout more visible, more visited, more... relevant as a place to visit and chat. Does it mean some of us are less focused on writing poetry? possibly, but i'm sure when writers are ready to write they will do exactly that :)
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Chipbutty? Is that you? Where you put your poems these days?

Is the guy who writes all alliteration all the time still around? He was a nice guy.
 
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