1) I've made the requests for critique/fluff options into tags, thus saving you all the effort of typing out requests every time. Just click the "critique" tag or the "fluff" tag, as the spirit moves you. I have retrofitted old posts with these tags.
2) I've introduced a "no fluff" option, in case anybody wants it. (It was an empty corner of logical space just begging to be filled.) So if you only want hard-hitting critique, use that.
3) I've changed the "say one positive thing" rule to a slightly vaguer "be helpful" rule, since Bill Moss has demonstrated that it is possible to be helpful by providing a bunch of line edits in a neutral tone. I will assume that saying one positive thing is sufficient, but not necessary, for maintaining a helpful tone. I neither want nor expect to micromanage critiques based on tone; just be reasonably courteous to each other, please.
OK, dull housekeeping stuff is over. I now return you to your regularly scheduled poetry.
2) I've introduced a "no fluff" option, in case anybody wants it. (It was an empty corner of logical space just begging to be filled.) So if you only want hard-hitting critique, use that.
3) I've changed the "say one positive thing" rule to a slightly vaguer "be helpful" rule, since Bill Moss has demonstrated that it is possible to be helpful by providing a bunch of line edits in a neutral tone. I will assume that saying one positive thing is sufficient, but not necessary, for maintaining a helpful tone. I neither want nor expect to micromanage critiques based on tone; just be reasonably courteous to each other, please.
OK, dull housekeeping stuff is over. I now return you to your regularly scheduled poetry.
