What the Heck. These Forums Are dead

Posted by Mona Ebel on 10/25/2025 9:25:59 PM

What the heck?  What;'s the point of entering any forum topic, when no one even replies.  This part of the website is dead.  People need to start interacting with each other on this site... give feedback, comment, send soup mail, help or encourage someones poetry. 
And those of you who have been fortunate enough to get a response... keep the dialogue going.  seek improvement or mentorship.  Shit, that is what i want, but I can't even get people to respond to my requests.  It's a sad state of affairs to have such a large membership on one site where hundreds of poems are submitted daily, but no one interacts with one another.  I' m truly disappointed


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Comment by Ghairo Daniels on 11/4/2025 3:41:16 AM

Hey, Mona ! It seems that the forum section was set up for non premier members & the blog section for premier members : so it’s kinda capital based, as is most paying sites of this size. There is a bit more replies at the blog section, if your are a premier member, you can ask here. Also, interactions are mostly between long standing members of the site, ie. it is “clique-ish”, like most sites of this nature : so I suppose the more you interact yourself the more feedback you will get, eventually. There is also the community 100 list, which makes “interactivity” competitive & you will need to “break through” this list as it is dominated by old members - which is the norm. It is rare that any “older” members will respond to criticism, even if positive & made with good intent & administration will defend the site, if criticism is delivered. This is their job, after all. If you are wanting more exposure for your poetry, one can post on other poetry sites as well. I hope this helps. You are welcome to soup mail me if you need more specific questions answered & I will try, as I’m probably a bit longer here than you - not sure. Blessings. Xx

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