question

[thomasdean]

Howard M2, I have read the rules and know the beginning of this post is a bit outside the rules, and I apologize. I tried to email you directly, but you have disallowed this, so:

I'm new here,

I was reviewing the thread for this poem, To The River and Back.

Can anyone tell me why it's only received 1 crit for it out of 77 viewings?

I was just wondering what you guys thought...oh and do you think everyone is obeying the 3:1 rule (crits:poem)?

What are your thoughts?

[AnthonyS]

I'll bet because of this post, you'll never see any crits again.

(MUHHHHHAAAAHHHHHAAAAAHHHHAAA!)


-anthony

[thomasdean]

Well I didn't mean for it to be biting and acknowledge my lack of experience here may be leading me to inaccurate perceptions.

I was mostly looking for your thoughts on why some poems get crits and others do not.

Things like length and simplicity and stuff I can imagine,,,just looking for more of your thoughts really.

[HowardM2]

You can use the PM function to send me a "Private Message." Otherwise, questions of this sort should be posted to the "Newbie's Stretching Room" or to the "Gripes" forum.

As for the number of comments vs. the number of views, well--them's da breaks. No one has any obligation to comment on specific pieces, and, sometimes, an absence of comment is a comment. You pays your money and you takes your chances, just like everyone else. There is no correlation between the number of views and the number of comments any given piece receives.

[Monk Bretton]

Some people had some thoughts on this topic not so long ago, see this thread (http://www.everypoet.org/pffa/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25235&highlight=ratio), Romac's point is perhaps the most telling.

...oh and do you think everyone is obeying the 3:1 rule
Yes, people check up. Seriously.

Regards

Monk

[Little Skittle]

After a while you won't care the ratio of "hits" to posts. Usually you'll hope for quality replies more than anything. I'd rather have one good reply that really helps me in improving my poem rather than thirty that don't do a darned thing for me. That's why it's nice to see those "big namers" posting to your poetry, because you know they are going to give good detailed crits, or at least crits that are going to help you.

Anyways, good luck.

Little Skittle

[THenry]

Also, it's only been a day and a half. Or that first review said what everyone was thinking. Or know one at the level to which you posted thought it was at the level they felt best able to crit. Or some people multiply read over a period of time before critiquing in order to put in enough effort. Or some people hit the search function and critiqued you at the level they felt you have been critiquing others.

I really have no idea since I don't know where your poem is listed. These are just some thoughts.

[Artemisia]

Hi Thomas Dean


Also, how do we differentiate between posters who are blatantly dumping two long poems and vanishing, and a poet such as you, who clearly cares about receiving and giving critique?

When I viewed your other poem for the first time I knew you were going to stay at pffa and I answered your poem almost immediately to the best of my knowledge.
I have now learned to wait a while before doing any crits, say, by the 3rd or 4th post.

I recognized a technique you used in your poem that I was taught by a university professor (and high school teacher prior to that) and that’s the only technique I will ever adopt in my poetry. I’m not going to delve into the meter but the poem has a very lilting technique with a springy buoyant movement and that is what is attractive to me.

Artemisia

P.S. SO......Control button + p = post thread is it?

The heading was supposed to say poem but I caught the control button.