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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
I was a sysop on the pre-internet CompuServe for LitForum and Poetry Workshop. Anyone could upload poetry, and anyone could critique it. There were a lot of people who couldn't take the critiques, took immense offense, "all poetry is beautiful; how dare you judge me", and left never to reappear. Thankfully.
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I saw that on various writing forums pre-Internet. It quickly became apparent that most participants didn't
want criticism. They wanted to post stuff and be told how great they were. Any comments aimed at helping them to actually
sell work were not greeted with enthusiasm.
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Dennis