Wild Speculation

Even though the title of this blog is "Wild Speculation" someone, somewhere, operating from some unknown and uninspired motivation will decide I am making an announcement of how things should be or am personally attacking them.

For that person, slap yourself you idiotic moron, this is nothing more than Wild Speculation.

I have noticed that people are leaving contradictory messages when it comes to the level of critique they wish to receive.  They click the I WANT THE RAW TRUTH radio button and then check the DO NOT CRITIQUE MECHANICS box.

Since these are mutually exclusive, I do not, as a rule, comment on anything thus labeled and while I have my suspicions as to if the circumstance is accidental, (i.e. just checking every box) or purposeful in response to the Spotlight discussion held a bit ago (i.e only RAW TRUTH poetry considered for Spotlight) or is just folks who don't have a clue about how critique is done, the commonality of this selection has gotten me thinking that it might be time to change the way we indicate the level of critique we want.

So I came up with the following list that I believe should be the SELECT ONE choice for critique:

1. Professional Critique requested
2. Friendly Critique Requested
3. Mild Critique Requested
4. Tell Me I Am Pretty

For me this is simple and forces people to quantify how they wish to participate in this, our poetry workshop.  In conjunction with this I would also love a filter on the Stream that would allow me to choose the critique levels I wanted to see.

Imagine for a moment having the ability to completely ignore, to not even know they exist, all TELL ME I AM PRETTY poems. Dear God, what a wonderful world that would be.