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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami 
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" We are not accepting new registrations at this time." I can critique and I can write some quirky poetry.. but ... no new members allowed here? netsky.. is my only screen name anywhere, always. rei d we lch is my real name. thanks ( break the name so it won't google-capture. but you may google me to see I am a real fellow. netsky 'at" netscape.com thanks... admin please email me a reply? |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
not at all clear about standards or hoop-jumping to qualify for a trial membership, ao I will intro myself. Am fifty, homo, have only been writing since Oct. Have no formal edu beyond HS. A few months ago, a 20 year old female poet acquaintance was glumly ruminating at "chatter" about how evil "dudes' are. I called this reaction item "Sara is sad" girls are pink and boys are blue boys make girls feel blue girls cannot make boys think pink boys do not understand why they made girls blue girls sink pinkly into morning dews boys deny melancholy and speak of blue skies girls look up then and see only gray boys say tomorrow- hey! it's another day! girls reply- yeah.... another gray same like yesterday boys next go surfing to escape the wet girls pinkly crash their waves of tears alone, stranded behind their sea walls boys laugh and surf their blue waves unawares http://forum.poetryconnection.net/viewtopic.php?p=29074#29074[/size] |
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Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
You can contact any administrator to help you set up a membership, Netsky...  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
O kayyyy... but I don't get it: why does a busy site like this confuse every potential new member into either: -giving up and moving on -or making a fool of himself in public like I just did? (I feel kinda silly) Why not state "membership may be arranged by contacting an admin team member" Why the bogus message in response to the trojan horse "register here"? ???? silly me! |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
"Why not state "membership may be arranged by contacting an admin team member" Good point Netsky. |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Might post that in the "suggestions box" once you're a member. By the way, you don't have to dazzle us with your mad skills here---this is a prose forum, so you can communicate in normal speech without resorting to wacky line breaks and parenthetical statements. |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
Local, I already noted that I'd made myself a fool by not understanding the odd -arm distancing- here in the registration process the odd breaks "re id wel ch" are not to be odd: I explained pretty well that this is so that google's search engines won't pick up my real name and screen name "netsky" in any general search. I don't operate secretly, nor entirely foolishly all the time. -perspective: when some newbie finds a site it is always a confusing thing as to: format, what and who is allowed. and all is -confusing and uncertain. I'll just hang and watch out here to see whether I even think I might fit into this board. It looks interesting. but... are newbies really welcome? I cannot yet tell. thanks |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
"By the way, you don't have to dazzle us with your mad skills here---this is a prose forum, so you can communicate in normal speech without resorting to wacky line breaks and parenthetical statements." I guess my answer is there.. I'll buzz off now. thanks |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
see, the two points? -Local, not only is your reception a put-down, but you state "-this is a prose forum" And I do find that a bit more confusion in thinking than I am interested in following through. I just look at the top of this page, and at the facing page "passions in poetry" so there I am: lost in space again. grins and goodbye |
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Essorant Member Elite
since 2002-08-10
Posts 4769Regina, Saskatchewan; Canada |
Netsky, I believe Local Parasite was referring to the Questions and Answers (Q & A) forum when he said "prose forum" Not the whole site |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
Don't take me so seriously, Netsky; I was just teasing you.  |
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Ron
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-05-19
Posts 8669Michigan, US |
quote: A fair question deserves a fair answer. When registrations are enabled, it's not at all unusual to see ten or twenty visitors sign up every day. Half of those -- or more -- will never read our rules or even bother to read in the forums, with the inevitable result that several will post work that is inappropriate to this site. It's just not what we want to read, or, in many cases, it's just not something we want to promote. Every one of those inappropriate posts, unfortunately, will consume an hour or more of discussion in the back rooms, as we try to fairly decide what should be done. Search for poetry forums at Google and pipTalk will usually come up in the top three. Additionally, the main site will usually come up in the top five for that phrase, and of course, the main site leads a lot of people back to pipTalk. In fact, with over two million visitors in March, the main site leads a WHOLE LOT of people to the forums. If these forums were less busy, we could handle a few new registrations a week. Half of those would still cause problems, but it would obviously be a much smaller half. For a lot of different reasons, however, we are ill prepared right now to handle anything but very moderate growth. Our software is nearly six years old and lacks features we need if we are to grow larger. Our staff of volunteer Moderators, though dedicated and capable, is too small. I decided, well over a year ago now, to turn off registrations because I think we all prefer quality over quantity. I know that can't last forever, because without new blood to help stimulate us, we are in danger of stagnation. Right now, however, I still think it is the lesser danger. We have accepted a large handful of registrations in the past year, processed by one of our Admins and usually as a recommendation from a trusted Member. That's cool. It's a growth rate we can handle, especially since recommendations generally bring fewer problem posters. Beyond that, I don't care if someone gives up and moves on when faced with disabled registrations and, frankly, someone afraid of potentially making a fool of themselves in public probably doesn't belong here any way. That's a fear no writer can afford to long harbor. Those willing to ask will rarely be told no. Those unwilling to ask just make it easier to control our growth. The very LAST thing I would want to do is tell several thousand visitors a day to email one of our Admins! Our new server is waiting for us, and indeed, within the next few weeks I'll start moving our netpoets.net domain over to Athena (hint, hint, time to backup your data, guys). Our new software is still far from being completed, but it continues to progress, and I suspect I'll introduce our Admins to our first working prototype before my lilacs have faded this Spring. That will still be just the first step on a very long road, however. We'll get there. But it won't be tomorrow and it won't ever be at the cost of the quality built by everyone here over the past six years. |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
A very fine and satisfying reply to my question. And thanks to Local for letting me off my own fool hook. OK.. So I am bold and quirky but not really so hard to live with. I do OK at Poetry Connection. I'd like to improve my commentary skills (they are poor). I'd like to get tough crits on my nascent poetry. I am not at all tutored or experienced. But I do write items which run off the beaten path. Maybe because I waited until age fifty to try? Don't know. But I would like to join this place, and run up a trial pomem or two early on, plus do a lot of commentary work for neglected poets who may be even weaker writers than myself. And -I am eager to get harsh, realistic crits from the old hands here- humor is my main interest.. my poetry, I mean... I do like to joke with some/much of it. Quirky. Thanks, sirs, for the helpful explanation. That could be made a sticky or something for the short term, at least. I think that the internet is full of poetry forums. But most are so gooshy/sweet to their poets as to be of no interest to my aims. On the other hand, there is a forum or two (nameless here) that are so immoderately run as to be virtual havens for sadists.. publicly baiting and excoriating the hapless who join into their so-called "free for all" (some double entendre, that!) But this place is not such a place or I would not have persisted in asking questions by which to join up when/if that is allowed. in good spirits and with good regards for all here, reid |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
Quirky? You'll fit right in. Welcome netsky...  |
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Local Parasite
since 2001-11-05
Posts 2527Transylconia, Winnipeg |
You'll do OK. The standards for responding to one another's poetry aren't all that high around here (which is a double-edged sword, of course), but there's this lovely feature called a "critique flag" that allows you to tip someone off as to exactly what kind of response you're looking for. It shows up just above the text box when someone decides to reply to your poem, and it's a good guideline for making sure you get the response you want. As long as you actually read some of the poetry shared by our members, and respond with enough articulation in order to demonstrate that you have, in fact, read the person's poem, and have some sort of response that you'd like to share, your presence will be welcomed by all. You might even prefer to establish yourself through commenting for a few days or so before actually making a first post of your own, just to make sure it doesn't end up buried beneath all the others. Enjoy piptalk! Nice having you aboard. Brian "God becomes as we are that we may be as he is." ~William Blake |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Welcome aboard, Netsky! |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Sheesh - thank you for standing up, Sunshine! I was wondering when one of these folks was going to break down and say "I can help you, drop me a note".....think I'll just wander away, scratching my head..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
LOL...I think one of the other Admins stepped in, Ratleader...because I saw that he was already registered this morning. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Ah, sehr gut! Rat-boy will turn his outlook knob two clicks clockwise..... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
"boys make girls feel blue girls cannot make boys think pink" ok, so now that I am ROTFLMAO at that.... and turning purple with envy that I never wrote that line!!!  welcome to this poetic nuthouse  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
Hey. Thank you all. I'm logged in now. What I'll do: mess up for sure Think I'll go ahead and format the muffed pink/blue cliche-word poem into the general forum (to learn the html commands) I'll get that up and go right to work commenting on general poems, which will knock my little fluffer down the list... (quirky me!) much obliged to you guys- to all of you here and you who wrote to me off line: thank you so very much. reid |
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Michelle_loves_Mike
since 2003-12-20
Posts 1189Pennsylvania |
Did someone say,,,,,quirkey? Nice to have a fellow quirkster rummaging around the site,,,,howdee hey and welcome. No one really cares,,why should I? |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
I call this a "t'erse" and I can and will quirk any or all of you teasers into some similar example. Here I tell how well I am loved at other forums (wink) netsky trusts the firemen's net; he takes the leap on trust. The firemen laugh and netsky lands splat for peace it must -is there a humor/whimsy forum at PiP?- one is, uh, needed now because this is mostly all that I write: tickles |
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Nan
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
PiP IS whimsical... and quirky... and VERY blue, btw - Don'tcha pink so, poets? |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
Pink? I pink... and point at ink... it leads me to a thought of think... and then I sink into the dust... weary me...I am a trust...  |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami |
Oh my.. I gotta exploit all of this goodwill for -fun- may I post into this thread, a poem to all poets who may have -ever- felt henpecked by lesser creatures?- Nah! I'll put it into the general forum becaws I want some hard pecks. Really, I do! I'll link the poem location into this form (in a bit) |
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Ladycat
since 1999-07-05
Posts 782At the edge and a doorway,TX |
Welcome Netsky... Take your shoes off and enjoy your stay here. With you being quicky and the rest of the poets being quicky I'm sure that you will have a good time.. *Don't tell them I told you this, but watch out for Ron, Nan, Balladeer, Toerag, and PdV they are the quirkiest.* <--They know I love them. Anyway, have a good time and see you more out on the boards soon. Love, Ladycat Insanity in individuals is something rare but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.-Friedrich Nietzsche |
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Sunshine
Administrator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
...dang, and here I thought I was quirky... I guess I'm just norm.... |
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embrace.the.heavens
Unregistered
New MemberPosts 1 |
hey can anyone answer a q for me? i was wondering why some sites and people leave out the last verse in Emily Dickinsons poem "i felt a funeral in my Brain"? |
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