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Poll: How many poem links should be shown on author pages?


  • Kevin
    Jan 25 3:58 PM
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    three
    four (the current amount)
    six
    eight

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  • Warrior-Eagle
    January 25
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    What poem links?

  • Gott ist tot
    January 25
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    Does it matter? As long as we can click to 'all poems' I don't mind.

  • Never Fall in Love
    January 25
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    8 will be cluttered and bluky - as most people have already chosen - I go for 6, or 4 is good as well.

  • Rose Dark Thorn
    January 25
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    I think it would be better if the poets themselves could choose how many poems they want to have shown on the profiles.

    • moon road
      January 26
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      I agree!

    • xxxbrittanyxxx
      January 28
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      hey that's a nifty thought!
      maybe we should vote on that rather than how many links we should have on the profile...

  • Naznomarn
    January 25
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    Personally, I think it's ok as is, we don't want the thing to be too cluttered! Ok, I admit, many people clutter it anyway. But still. I think that any more is just starting to get big headed, and egotistic. Perhaps have it user adjustable instead?

  • StarIlluminated
    January 25
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    I think we should have more because I like seeing some of the poems people have written at a glance and more than four would be better, without having to click on show all.

  • Elrenia
    January 25
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    Looks good the way it is. How hard is it to click on the "Show all" link?

  • abba12
    January 25
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    rather than more new poems, would it be possible to allow the author to choose their best or favourite works to put on the front page instead? most of my recent poems at the moment are 5 minute 'lesson' poems that i didnt put much thought into, or was testing an idea, which i really dont want representing me on the front page. i know we have the 'poems im working on' links, but that implies they are unfinished.

    • xxxbrittanyxxx
      January 28
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      we can do that, its called "poems im focused on" and you click on a link that is found on the specific poem page "pin to authors page"

      • abba12
        January 28
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        as i said in my post, i know we have the poems im focused on/working on section. but it implies the poems are unfinished, because youre focusing on them.

  • Starlight-Owl
    January 25
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    Six. I think, however, that we should be able to choose those six poems. If someone doesn't set them though, just let them be the most recent. That way, an author could let their best poetry represent them. (I don't know how complicated that would be... But it's a nice thought.)

  • WarrioroftheHeart
    January 25
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    I think the four new poem links we get now is alright, especially added to the fact that we can 'pin' more poems to our author page if we want too.

  • Matt Holck
    January 25
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    whenever an author or poem is mentioned on forum grounds
    a reference link should be automatically added
    but only for dead poets





    as living poets must
    struggle up arcadian slops
    to craters filled with liquid rock
    to throw themselves into
    in hopes to cast their hollow mold
    in cooling stone.

    • ea
      January 28
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      I think all poems should come with vocabulary words linked to their dictionary definitions too, like the way words in your poems are linked to ads over at poemhunter.

  • Lost-Rose-Petal
    January 26
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    I think the more the better...its kinda like when you go to look at a book..if you have no certain book in mind..the first thing you see is the cover..the more contents on the cover..the more interested you are.
    Personally if I looked at a book that said "yup this is a book look inside for more" id put it back
    But if it said more of whats in the book..it may get me to want to open it.

    • BeJay
      January 26
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      At what point does it become too much and the consumer is overloaded so they still put it back down?

  • nothinghere
    January 26
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    I think best to just add the feature in the edit profile and let each individual choose what suits them best

  • ea
    January 26
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    I would like it if all the new poems added in the past week showed. Sometimes I hesitate to add because I don't want to just push down a good one to where it's off the page. lol. The truth is though that I don't usually look beyond the first four that show so it would be nice to have more visable automatically, without "pinning" them to the page which I feel is different and gets ignored by most. I can see how few hits my "pinned" poem gets unless I promote it, each week. Thanks, Kevin.

  • AnnD
    January 26
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    maybe an individual option or allowing set amounts on the members page,
    ie: 4, 6, 8 or last 7 days
    and if none posted within the last 7 days, to default to 4.


  • MargaretG
    January 26
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    How many poems can we "pin" to our author pages? As long as that is there, I feel no need to fuss with the "most recent" list.

    • ea
      January 26
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      "Being focused" on a poem is different from having the most recent be up, though. I really most enjoy the newness of creation and would like those to all show rather than saying I'm focused on them for whatever reason.

    • Matt Holck
      January 26
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      staging can be so tedious

  • Nanase
    January 26
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    Four is fine but it would be nice to have an option to change that number, if you really wanted more/fewer on display.

  • And Hyetal
    January 26
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    I personally like four because my page is too cluttered already. But instead of just switching the amount, why not have it adjustable in our "edit account" feature? please?

  • Himler
    January 26
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    I would also like to have the option of choosing, and as others have already suggested, maybe adding poems of your own choosing to your homepage would be nice. Thanks for taking in our suggestions.

  • Naridill
    January 26
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    I know it's kind of unrelated.
    But when we voted for poem previews to go bye bye [lol]. I didn't think that meant contests. Just wondering if there is a chance of getting the previews back up for under contests when browsing through.

  • Princess Peach
    January 26
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    um i never really cared for this kind of stuff. i think that it's up to the people who are more serious about there work...not that im not! ;-) lol

  • Matt Holck
    January 26
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    Poems in active contest should be on the author page

    • polly filla
      January 29
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      agreed---I would like the poems I've entered most recently to be on my author page

      • Matt Holck
        January 29
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        poems in active contest can be in that contest for months

  • x-Black-Butterfly-x
    January 27
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    I have 6 showing up already and sometimes 7 or maybe I can't count

  • BeJay
    January 27
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    I want zero.

    • PurplePixie
      January 28
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      Why? This is a poetry site... You don't post your poetry for feed back?

      • BeJay
        January 28
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        I see this as a social networking site, and the only 'poems' that I post are written specifically for contests when I'm being a little silly.

  • theflamepoetess
    January 28
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    at least 6

    people really like writing poetry and the more they can the more they would be enthused to join the site. i think that if there is a set number than 6 or more. i dont think that there should really even be a number.

  • ea
    January 28
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    Both Americanpoems and Poetbay allow your most recent 10 pieces to show on the page. Poemhunter, even more. I would really appreciate at least being able to have all the poems of the last week showing and think it would present a challenge to write more.

  • positive anarchy
    January 28
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    You can already have eight links by choosing Poems I'm focused on...they'll appear first...
    I agree, thoughm, that allowing an infinite amount of links can make pages extremly cluttered and hard to scroll down...I have enough issues with annoying author pages that contain a million "I had a gay friend, if you have one two copy and paste this link" and long, boring poems and millions of pointless quotes and not to mention the pictures made out of stuff like this 1///83)(###111`~~~~////...
    keep your author page neat and engaging...a little of everything is fine, but too much and I'll skip you!
    ~Hippie

    • Matt Holck
      January 29
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      an infinite amount of links can make pages extremly cluttered

      This can be organized by ordering links into group
      that have properly titled headers

      for emample
      save
      open
      and new
      are all under file on word programs

  • PurplePixie
    January 28
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    I like 6... it's a better number...

  • Kill My Insides
    January 28
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    well its not that big of a deal.
    but i think we used to have more showing on our page and i liked that.
    so six or eight would be pretty dank.
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