I'm starting to think the 1 poem every two days is a little too restrictive. Other opinions? I tend to write in bursts, so I'm posting to poemranker less often myself because of this rule.

Maybe this would be a case where implementing a submissions "queue" (Shuushin suggested some time back) would work well?

I have seen less activity on Poemranker in recent weeks. It seems that with fewer comments, that allowing more submittals will reduce further the comments received. Personally, I care a lot more about the comments that about the votes. I'm for keeping the two-day limit, queue or no queue.

I have a better idea

I would suggest 1 poem every two days but with one difference: Cumulative posting rights. If in two days you don't post anything, you save that right to post and can use it at any time, and if again in two days you don't post you now have two free posts.

This way people who write poems in profusion the way Pfeizer does condoms will still be limited to one every two days and won't flood the site, but people like netwind (and myself) will be able to post in bursts the way we've always dreamed.

I. NEED. TO. POST. ><

one poem a day would be better, wouldnt it? one every two days is too long.

Well, here’s the way I see it.

Every two days, on average, I write a poem – sometimes seven in one day, then a dry fortnight. I usually post something from the current week or two because I want feedback on recent insights and deceptions. Any ensuing discussion should then follow topics of current interest (for me, maybe not for you). I don’t see much value in knowing what you think of the poet I was a year ago.

That’s the value of Poemranker – a place to deposit these current missives and receive opinion, much like a dog deposits messages hoping to be read, and ultimately of about as much value. It’s in the process of writing that Poemranker shines, not so much so in evaluating old poems.

So the two-day limit is right for me. Some people post every day using two or more ID’s, and that’s fine when their postings are recently written, but what purpose is there in flooding the site with old poems?

By the way, my suggestion for a more friendly Help Tab has received little attention. I think newbees should be able to get up to speed easier and quicker than I did. After all, we’re here to critique poetry and poets, not a person’s ability to navigate the site. Or are we?

Why not break from the twenty-four hour day patterns and make it one poem every 11.459155902616464175359630962821 * Pi hours? It's a midpoint (for the mathematically uninclined like myself, that's one every 36 hours).

The only problem with posting every day is that there would be even fewer comments. People have enough trouble pressing the "previous twenty" link. Wouldn't one poem a day just cheat people who aren't getting votes or comments anyway?

Well, as for the problem of people not getting enough comments or votes already, you could arbitrarily delete anyone who hasn't been here in a year. Or two years, or eighteen months, or whatever.

nentwined

Why not do the following:
1) Keep the 1 poem every 2 days BUT for every comment received the critic earns points to promote their own work. This way everyones a winner
2) Add a favourites list to encourace reciprical critiques ie if i love your work and add you to my favourites you may feel obliged to return the favour?

There are only 2 poetry websites you can get a mature critique - poemranker and poetry.tetto.org.