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About Poets.net
Poets.net launched on March 24, 2008, partly in response to heavy-handed censoring on Poets & Writers Speakeasy and the poets.org forums. Both forums have banned members; in the case of Speakeasy, the members have been banned permamently.
While poets.org has "unbanned" certain members, the forum's administrators have made it very clear that these controversial members had better self-censor or be subject to permanent exile. Legally, they probably have the right to ban anyone they wish; on the other hand, both poets.org and Poets & Writers do accept government funding.
Issues regarding the code of silence surrounding anti-establishment literary ideas and information are just too important to be ignored. Some forums appear to be censoring their members for specious reasons.
Poets.net follows The Public-Forum Doctrine, thus, not censoring unpopular viewpoints, even if the admins and mods disagree, and controversial information.
New threads will be added regularly. You will be able to post whatever is on your mind on a given topic.
Temporarily, the forum is in blogger mode; threads have been started and appear under "Threads and Labels." You will be able to find a thread simply by clicking on Threads and pulling up a list and finding a thread that interests you.
If you have some ideas for additional threads, please email me, and I will add them--along with your attributed or anonymous commentary.
In some ways, the blogger format will be easier in that you will not need to join in order to post. Also, you may post anonymously; I am going to trust (for now) that posters will post their comments in a way that will promote open intellectual discussion and reserve general snark and self-promotion for the Smackdown and Shameless Self-Promotion threads.
I have temporarily disabled the captcha feature; thus, you will be able to post freely. However, if automated sp@m becomes a problem, I will have to enable captchas.
The down side of a blogger forum: you will not have access to a private message function.
So are you ready yet?
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(Poets.net, a private forum, is NOT affiliated in any way with poets.org or Poets & Writers Speakeasy forums).
While poets.org has "unbanned" certain members, the forum's administrators have made it very clear that these controversial members had better self-censor or be subject to permanent exile. Legally, they probably have the right to ban anyone they wish; on the other hand, both poets.org and Poets & Writers do accept government funding.
Issues regarding the code of silence surrounding anti-establishment literary ideas and information are just too important to be ignored. Some forums appear to be censoring their members for specious reasons.
Poets.net follows The Public-Forum Doctrine, thus, not censoring unpopular viewpoints, even if the admins and mods disagree, and controversial information.
New threads will be added regularly. You will be able to post whatever is on your mind on a given topic.
Temporarily, the forum is in blogger mode; threads have been started and appear under "Threads and Labels." You will be able to find a thread simply by clicking on Threads and pulling up a list and finding a thread that interests you.
If you have some ideas for additional threads, please email me, and I will add them--along with your attributed or anonymous commentary.
In some ways, the blogger format will be easier in that you will not need to join in order to post. Also, you may post anonymously; I am going to trust (for now) that posters will post their comments in a way that will promote open intellectual discussion and reserve general snark and self-promotion for the Smackdown and Shameless Self-Promotion threads.
I have temporarily disabled the captcha feature; thus, you will be able to post freely. However, if automated sp@m becomes a problem, I will have to enable captchas.
The down side of a blogger forum: you will not have access to a private message function.
So are you ready yet?
..
(Poets.net, a private forum, is NOT affiliated in any way with poets.org or Poets & Writers Speakeasy forums).
Disclaimer
Poets.net, a forum dedicated to promoting free speech in the literary community, is affiliated with PostFoetry.com. We are NOT affiliated with poets.org or the Poets & Writers Speakeasy forums. Furthermore, we are not affiliated with any other online poetry site, forum, or print publication.
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While Poets.net welcomes differing viewpoints on the state of the literary world, the administrator reserves the right to delete spam, unwanted advertising, copyright-infringing comments, hate speech, ethnic/racial intimidation, harassing/stalking posts, and truly libelous content.
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Poets.net is copyright 2008, by Jennifer Semple Siegel. Other works posted here are copyright by their respective authors.
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The Poet Net portal site was established April 30, 2008
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While Poets.net welcomes differing viewpoints on the state of the literary world, the administrator reserves the right to delete spam, unwanted advertising, copyright-infringing comments, hate speech, ethnic/racial intimidation, harassing/stalking posts, and truly libelous content.
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Poets.net is copyright 2008, by Jennifer Semple Siegel. Other works posted here are copyright by their respective authors.
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The Poet Net portal site was established April 30, 2008
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