Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-24077689-20140405061114

William See wrote: Necrosanity wrote: As mentioned before, the "No-AABB" rule irks me to no end. What's the reason behind this? If your only argument is "a lot of bad poetry is written using AABB," then imagine all the "good" poems you'd be carelessly deleting in the process. Seems pretty reckless to me, considering the admins would be able to delete it regardless.

If anything (and as brought up before), I'd like to see strict rules considering AABB -- not absolute forbidding.

It disturbs me that anyone would agree with that. So... Why? YES. You can't just slap a set of rules onto writing poetry. Actually, yes you can. Just because you format something like a poem doesn't make it a poem. There are actually pretty strict rules about what makes poetry, poetry. It's very few and far between that an author is able to successfully break these rules. In case you're not getting what I mean: pretty much anything posted on this site will not be something so spectacular that it ought to break the basic rules of writing poetry.

I also agree, the AABB rhyme scheme thing should be put under more scrutiny, not outright banned.

We should also put a note in there about OVER-DESCRIPTION OF EVERYBODY. "Like, I'm Noothgrush. I'm a 22 year old with brown eyes and brown hair that I put up in a comb over with pomade, I'm average height and I'm married. My wife is a little shorter than me and she is part black so she has darker skin, she also has brown eyes and likes to wear my button up shirts, her hair is straight and she likes wearing slip on skate shoes and we have this other friend who has blond hair and blue eyes and this other one that's kinda fat and likes the shave off his chest hair, his girlfriend has big tits."

The whole fashion description thing annoys the shit out of me. Especially when it's like "yeah, my bad guy has like a leather jacket and a scary mask and skinny jeans and scene hair and he's really fucking sexy, I'm projecting how I wish I looked onto my story because I'm probs a neckbeard with bad acne."