Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4832646-20140807223708/@comment-24101790-20140807225852

While I am in no way a fan of poetry, I think we should just keep the stringent standards we have instead of blacklisting it all-together. I have come across some poems that I actually think are worth-while and I feel like blacklisting poetry would only discourage competent writers.

Putting an item on the blacklist unfortunately doesn't stem the flow of those types of stories. (We still receive JtK knock-offs despite the fact it has been blacklisted for quite some time.) Even if this motion is passed, we are still going to receive crappy poems from users who don't know/care about the rule. I know we get a lot of poor quality poems, but every once in a while we could receive that 5% of poems that are actually good and I'd hate to see that go.