I'll be the first to add unofficial rules ...
1. Don't flood the forum with your poetry!
Yessssss ... we want to read your work, but please give us a little bit at a time. Don't post every peace you've ever written, immediately after joining us. Start slowly by posting a peace or two at a time. If you have
5+ peaces on the "first page" of the poetry forum, you are probably posting too many within a short period of time.
Every Member wants their work to remain on the "first page" of the poetry forum as long as possible. If you flood the forum with many of your peaces ... you are pushing everyone else's work to the back pages (which happens quickly enough because there are so many poets).
2. Give the kind of love you want to receive!
Encourage the poets by reading and
responding to their work, especially those peaces that have few or no replies. Unlike number 1 above, there is no possible way that you can give too much love.
3. If you don't have anything kind to say, don't say anything!
It takes a lot for folk to put their heartfelt thoughts, feelings and words on the page. We must receive and treat their gift properly.
While constructive criticism, which is sometimes negative, has its place ... that place is not here. There are enough places in the world where we must prove ourselves, deal with the rigors of living up to someone else's standard, justify every word, line and comma in our life ... but we don't have to do that here. We are at home, amongst friends and family ...
Of course, if someone requests constructive criticism, feel free to oblige them, but trust that each poet's individual growth is guaranteed ... simply by being in the company of so many talented, conscious and encouraging Sisters and Brothers.
While we do have a forum where members share there honesty and realsm to a poem / poetry in our
Black Poetry Critiques forum , when you looking for positive and negative critiques and feedback on your work / art or piece.
Destee
4 Astract out wordz we ask that they remain and that these words not be violated
Through time as words has been used in the ugly way harmful and disrespectful we form a
Ban word list these words placed here to help guide us and we hope that everyone support it. you can find these words here in this link below .
http://www.destee.com/forums/showpost.php?p=219305&postcount=9
5. Pictures and premium members we have a place for such when we are displaying nudity or boarderline type of graphics and or images.
These type of photo's are to be place'd within your private area of your profile page and not to public for we hold a standard high with respect to the community and members alike, so be aware of the pictures / images you post here when it comes to displaying body parts , if we see it's to graphic or not acceptable it would be by our decission to remove it / them from the view of the community.
Destee