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The Most Offensive Blog Post Ever
Barbara Writes, http://www.neopoet.com/barbara-writes, came up with an excellent idea as a response to my Dickens Wrote to Pay the Rent (http://www.neopoet.com/blog/29974-dickens-wrote-pay-rent) blog entry and I've decided to expand it and formalize it a bit before I take a compilation of ideas to the AEC for review.
The idea is this:
Construct an area (Writer's Corner for sake of discussion) where writing tips, tricks, and techniques can be stored for review of new writers, member, folks looking to review styles, rules, etc. Nina (http://www.neopoet.com/ink-dragon) wrote an excellent blog entry on punctuation (http://www.neopoet.com/forum/24767-punctuation) but after it had aged a few days it fell off the radar and no one sees it any longer unless they look through her blogs. Other people have done the same type of thing, treat a rule or style or whatever to a serious entry that would be extremely handy for quick review.
Right now some people are excited and some just skimmed to this point looking for the offensive part. Let's get to that.
Tips could be submitted by anyone but could only be included in the Writer's Corner area by decision of a selected number of members who have proven they are serious writers and interested in the mentoring process. This means the vast majority of the people who submit to the Stream on a daily basis will have no input what-so-ever.
I will refrain from making my standard judgement, not because it is not accurate, but rather because the implications of the above statement are offensive enough to some people and anything I would add at this point would be redundant.
But let's heap some additional offense onto the pile. Who get's to decide the Writer's Corner gatekeepers? Not the members through popular vote, not the mentors, not the advocates, not the AEC. The only people who have proven they consistently have the best interest of Neopoet at heart are the Trustees. They would entertain nominations or ask people to serve in the capacity of gatekeeper.
And for the final slap in the face, "he must be talking about me" comment; no one can submit their name as a gatekeeper or anything of their own creation for consideration of inclusion into the Writer's Corner. The reason should be obvious.
Comments are welcome, accusations will be met with general mockery and taunting because, and this is important:
"There are people who will take this blog entry as a personal attack. These people are idiots."
The idea is this:
Construct an area (Writer's Corner for sake of discussion) where writing tips, tricks, and techniques can be stored for review of new writers, member, folks looking to review styles, rules, etc. Nina (http://www.neopoet.com/ink-dragon) wrote an excellent blog entry on punctuation (http://www.neopoet.com/forum/24767-punctuation) but after it had aged a few days it fell off the radar and no one sees it any longer unless they look through her blogs. Other people have done the same type of thing, treat a rule or style or whatever to a serious entry that would be extremely handy for quick review.
Right now some people are excited and some just skimmed to this point looking for the offensive part. Let's get to that.
Tips could be submitted by anyone but could only be included in the Writer's Corner area by decision of a selected number of members who have proven they are serious writers and interested in the mentoring process. This means the vast majority of the people who submit to the Stream on a daily basis will have no input what-so-ever.
I will refrain from making my standard judgement, not because it is not accurate, but rather because the implications of the above statement are offensive enough to some people and anything I would add at this point would be redundant.
But let's heap some additional offense onto the pile. Who get's to decide the Writer's Corner gatekeepers? Not the members through popular vote, not the mentors, not the advocates, not the AEC. The only people who have proven they consistently have the best interest of Neopoet at heart are the Trustees. They would entertain nominations or ask people to serve in the capacity of gatekeeper.
And for the final slap in the face, "he must be talking about me" comment; no one can submit their name as a gatekeeper or anything of their own creation for consideration of inclusion into the Writer's Corner. The reason should be obvious.
Comments are welcome, accusations will be met with general mockery and taunting because, and this is important:
"There are people who will take this blog entry as a personal attack. These people are idiots."