Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4832646-20140807223708/@comment-4832646-20140808083552

I am not simply yelling blacklist poetry just because, Streve. For one: Anyone who reads the rules knows that blacklisted subjects are able to be appealed via Spinoff Appeal. It should be fairly common knowledge. For two: Sure, it is more work to deal with things that are blacklisted. That is something we should be willing to deal with. For three: I was not simply pointing at the arguments Guy and Wave make. I was stating that their Writing Advice blogs have not affected the overall quality of Poetry as they have with other subjects.

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.

The idea that I'm scaring a large number of poets with this community proposal is a tad bit exaggerated, to be honest. Our Quality Standards scare potentially good writers, as do any rules, regulations, or blacklists of any type. Should we get rid of these things? No. Most writers I know would at least make the attempt to go at it with whatever system was in place.

Now, clearly the thread isn't going to pass. But here is another suggestion: A temporary (TEMPORARY) Blacklist of poetry, until we can clean the poetry category out.