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Spotlight
Full disclosure. I don't participate in Spotlight and always get a little uneasy should I see anything of mine go past 5%.
This is not a blog against Spotlight, however, so those of you looking for one more reason to call me names and declare I am the worst thing to happen to Neopoet since the Acrostic, settle down.
I've noticed something about Spotlight. With rare exceptions, Spotlight rotates between three of four people. This is my impression, not a statement of fact. My impression is that Spotlight is something folks award their friends and has become akin to an 8th grade "graduation" ceremony.
So I challenge all of you who actually participate in Spotlight to review the lonely poems, those without comments, normally from new members who have not built a circle of friends. I challenge you to review these, along with your friends and for a week select one poem a day for spotlight.
This is not a rule, this is not an accusation, this is not a requirement. This is a challenge.
Can you refrain from nominating every one of your friend's poems for Spotlight for a week? Can you review multiple entries and make a considered decision as to which one you think, on a daily basis, excels?
Can you step back and make this small gesture to the workshop environment for a week?
If I can get 10 people to do so, I will do the same for a week. You would be giving up reflex nominating everything your friends write, I would have to start participating; so we both have to change, we both have to sacrifice.
If I can get 10 confirmed participants by Sunday the 18th of July, 2010, we can start Monday the 19th and run it until the 25th. I'll create a forum entry where we can list the poems we read each day and state we only nominated one for spotlight. We do not have to nominate any, if we do not believe any are worthy, but we can nominate no more than one and we do not have to indicate which one we nominated if we do not want to do so, just that we nominated one of the ones we read.
So, who's on board?
RECAP:
This is not a blog against Spotlight, however, so those of you looking for one more reason to call me names and declare I am the worst thing to happen to Neopoet since the Acrostic, settle down.
I've noticed something about Spotlight. With rare exceptions, Spotlight rotates between three of four people. This is my impression, not a statement of fact. My impression is that Spotlight is something folks award their friends and has become akin to an 8th grade "graduation" ceremony.
So I challenge all of you who actually participate in Spotlight to review the lonely poems, those without comments, normally from new members who have not built a circle of friends. I challenge you to review these, along with your friends and for a week select one poem a day for spotlight.
This is not a rule, this is not an accusation, this is not a requirement. This is a challenge.
Can you refrain from nominating every one of your friend's poems for Spotlight for a week? Can you review multiple entries and make a considered decision as to which one you think, on a daily basis, excels?
Can you step back and make this small gesture to the workshop environment for a week?
If I can get 10 people to do so, I will do the same for a week. You would be giving up reflex nominating everything your friends write, I would have to start participating; so we both have to change, we both have to sacrifice.
If I can get 10 confirmed participants by Sunday the 18th of July, 2010, we can start Monday the 19th and run it until the 25th. I'll create a forum entry where we can list the poems we read each day and state we only nominated one for spotlight. We do not have to nominate any, if we do not believe any are worthy, but we can nominate no more than one and we do not have to indicate which one we nominated if we do not want to do so, just that we nominated one of the ones we read.
So, who's on board?
RECAP:
- Participant will read at least two (2) poems a day
- Participants will indicate in the forum all poems they read daily (or catch up ASAP)
- Participants will vote on one (1) poem for Spotlight daily
- Participants will be active for the seven(7) day period from July 19 - July 25, 2010