zodiac23 May 2004

1) If you insist on continuing this conversation, please use a numbered-list format like this one. Without lists, poemranker debates tend to take something like the following form:

USER 1: [responds to all User 2's earlier comments in a semi-methodical fashion.]

USER 2: [some completely unrelated nonsense.]

USER 1: [responds to all User 2's comments in a semi-methodical fashion.]

2) And without numbered lists, how will we know who is winning?

3) I'm sorry you can't write intelligibly. Clearly, you've missed the memo defining language as a community's generally-agreed-upon system of signs used in a generally-agreed-upon order. That, or your colossal illiteracy made it useful only for making paper hats and/or pterodactyls out of.

4) Why on earth would you value the opinion of what we'll just call "the poetically illiterate" over that of "the 'poetically educated'"? Do you imagine that these illiterates buy, publish, or commonly read poetry?

5) Well, mister, I happen to believe that everyone isn't equally qualified to speak as an authority on every subject, and that I shouldn't regard the views of someone less experienced than myself in some matter as equal to my own views on the matter. If you can't accept my point-of-view then it's you, sir, that's shallow, clothes-minded, and I daresay bigoted - not I.

6) "which you obviously lack" doesn't make any sense. If you say "I'm sorry you don't understand" again, you are a stellar example of the proposition "buttocum ergo sum."

7) How have you come to the astonishingly bright conclusion that "poemranker... is worthless for true criticism," (whatever that means, anyway)? Was it from the one poem other than your own that you've commented/voted on? Was it a result of all the failed attempts at real poetickal discourse on your fellow users' posts which have marked your stay on our site? No, I suspect it was because only two people bothered to comment in any way substantively on your poems, both of whom failed to blindly praise the dribblings of your genius and frankly understated the hideousness of the misshapen illogic that clings to them like dinner-crumbs in an elderly's unkempt beard.

8) Maybe this will drive home the fundamental difference between your conception of a "useful" poetry site and mine:

zodiac
Total Votes: 2669
Total Comments: 1905
Has read ALL of SomeKindofPoet's posts.

SomeKindofPoet
Total Votes: 0
Total Comments: 12
Has read NONE of zodiac's.

9) Hey, godspeed! Why don't you give Poets2000.com a shot? Or Poetry.com? They LOVE people like you!

10) Thanks for playing.