Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4832646-20140807223708/@comment-24918243-20140808143806

Princess Callie wrote:

On that note, hell, let the poets use the Writer's Workshop board to appeal to have the poem put up. As long as we make an attempt to stop some of the bad poetry that comes in. I'm not saying there aren't potentially good poets, nor am I saying there is not good poetry. I'm saying a large majority of it is not well written and a large amount of what we have that is good was written by classic authors such Poe, for example. Forgive me if saying so the way I did in the OP automatically warrants my immediate demonization. I wasn't aware that agreeing with someone's argument but not providing all of my reasons was a terrible thing.

Once again, yes there is a lot of bad poetry. But again, the same can be said about stories as well.

As many here, I am not a big fan of poetry, at least not the dark kind that would belong on this site. But I do think that blacklisting it is heavy handed, and quite frankly, making mountains out of molehills.

Sure, if someone wants to put up some poetry, they can appeal. But in all honesty, how many do you think are going to appeal? And to compare the poetry here to EA Poe is just unfair. How many of the stories here could be compared to other established writer's works? I venture to say, not many.

So sure, clean up the poetry section. Delete the bad stuff, just like we do with stories. But let's quit being blacklist happy over stuff we don't personally like.