what would be the point--oh, you're allowed to write free verse, but not in strict forms? isn't that assbackwards? fuck the rules, i'll do it my way--but, hey, look, i can learn to work withi restrictions once i'm good enough?
also, the maintaining an average thing works great if you keep your mouth shut and don't piss off someone with, say, 8 or 9 user names. i invite you to visit the voting history of some of my poems to see what i mean.
i agree that the 'unlocking'/solving thing is a good idea; i just don't think that that's the way to go about it.
i think that maybe you gain points by voting; i think there needs to be some way to determine the way you vote--do you spend more than 3 seconds on a page once it loads? do you vote everything a 0? a 10? a 7? a 5? because if you're only voting to rack up points, that defeats the purpose here--
once you rack up an extra x points, you get a free pass to post an extra poem outside the normal strictures. you put more into the community, you get more time at the podium.
that sort of thing.
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