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'Did You Bring Me Anything', Gary Margolis
I know it's your birthday and I am an hour
late. I didn't think there would be another
girl for me to talk with, as I was putting on my
coat, turning off the light. Soft touch or not,
you know how hard it is for me to say no
when someone asks to speak with me and it is
their eyes that say first what they have
to say. I've read all the numbers that make ( ... )Leave a comment ( 6 )
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Admin: expanding our tags with paid time.
Hello poetry cats and kittens, a little admin business: several years ago LiveJournal introduced a limit of 1,000 tags for all journals and communities: they let us grandfather in our existing tags (nearly 2,000 of them), but since 2007 we haven't been able to add any tags for new poets, or tag a post unless the author was already in the old tag ( ... )Leave a comment ( 28 )
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New rules: request posts.
Hello to members new and old, including those who found us through LJ Spotlight.
greatpoets welcomes requests for poems on specific themes, but has added two new rules:
- Please check the archive of previous requests to ensure you're not repeating a previous request. You can use the 'Previous 10' link at the top and bottom of each page to navigate back ( ... )
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Moderator PSA
Just a reminder - this community is for posting works that are in publication. Self-published/glamour volumes do not count. Authors with their own wiki pages and little else to show for chapbook press, journals, periodicals or books do not count. There are a lot of poetry communities on livejournal, each with varying content rules, so remember ( ... ) -
Mod Administrivia
FYI - for a long time we've only allowed maintainers to tag posts due to some past trolling, however I just changed it so that all members can tag posts. Have at it. We reached the 1000 tag limit some time ago, so unfortunately no new tags can be added ( ... )Leave a comment ( 3 )
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PSA: Reminder
Lately we've had more posts with altered font. Please review the rules posted on the community userinfo page - for ease of readability, we do not allow font size/color changes.
Please revise existing posts to comply with this standard, or they will be removed.
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Tagging Delays/Setbacks
In the most recent release, LiveJournal introduced a 1000 tag limit for all journals and communities. This means that no journal can have more than 1000 unique tags. This poses a problem for communities like greatpoets because we already have 1000 poets' works posted here.
Currently, abbacat and I are going through the existing list to remove empty tags and ( ... )Leave a comment ( 9 )
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Some Thoughts on Centering Poems
Recently, there was a little dust-up over the centering of a poem by Keats. Sadly, the person who originally posted the poem felt obligated to delete the post. I don't know if this was because of the replies or because the poster felt that centering poems is disallowed here. Either way, I'd like to apologize for any lack of clarity.
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A quick PSA
First: Thanks again for all of the members who tirelessly participate and, quite remarkably for a huge community, play nicely with each other 99% of the time ( ... )Leave a comment ( 11 )
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Rule Reminders
We have some new members so this is just a reminder of our (few) rules.
1. Lj-cut poems that are longer than 30 lines.
2. Do not alter the font of your posts - leave the default font style and font alone to prevent ocular assault on people whose resolutions or LJ styles are not the same as yours.
3. Do not post unpublished or personal work.
4. Do ( ... )Leave a comment ( 26 )