| User | Mister Fizzle |
| Topic | on arrogance... |
| Message | "Salvadore Dali was expelled in 1926 from Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid for refusing to take the examination in "Fine Art Theory." He stated that the faculty was not competent enough to examine him."
I found the above fact to be interesting and funny at the same time. To be honest, I myself have felt that way on occasion about comments I have recieved on poetry. Has anybody else felt this way? Arrogant Bastards!! lol |
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| User | WolfStar | 2005-04-05 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | What I appreciate more than anything in a comment are questions. I LOVE people who ask questions. It makes me think, and I feel like they’re trying or that they’re paying attention.
Not that those who don’t ask questions aren’t good commenters, but... sometimes I think you have to ask questions in order to REALLY comment. Where the assumptions and laziness comes in, that’s where I feel people are "unqualified" for lack of a better word. |
| User | Juliets_dagger | 2005-04-04 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Ha ha this all makes me giggle. Sometimes I do get aggravated when people leave comments and don’t make any sense. Or they leave a crappy comment just to get the ratio boost. It’s very easy to tell when people don’t really read a piece. Because they just skim through it and only catch certain points. Sometimes though, I do feel a bit of arrogance about comments. But hey, that’s just another part of the human condition.
I do think though that when one is good at something they should not be afraid to feel confident about it. There is a difference between being humble about talent and acting like a jerk about it. Anyhoo...love to all. |
| User | mae | 2005-04-03 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | It depends on the comment. I’ve received comments in the past where the commenter has told me my sentence structure or spelling was wrong and the COMMENTER was wrong. Or they’ve said something like there are too many words or it’s too long or something like that. Times like that I tend to feel they aren’t qualified to comment. mae |
| User | besodemuerte | 2005-04-03 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | i think he meant he appropriately categorizes the different types of criticism he gets.. some are worth the trouble, others arent... |
| User | Learah | 2005-04-03 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Wewak: you’re in the wrong place, then. Do you understand what "peer critique website" means? |
| User | joeyalphabet | 2005-04-03 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Dali WAS a bit of an arrogant fellow. |
| User | wewak11 | 2005-04-01 | |
| Subject | Arrogance? |
| Message | I’ve never thought someone "unqualified" to comment, I usually think that either they read it too fast, were having a bad hair day, wanted to show their superiority by bagging everything else, or maybe I didn’t put the mesage across properly? I take each one at its merits, and usually chuck criticism in the appropriate cesspit where it belongs LOL |
| User | WolfStar | 2005-04-01 | |
| Subject | untitled |
| Message | Sometimes there are things that I write that I think you would have to experience to understand, if that’s what you mean. I also think some people are not going to be open to the real message in a poem, or maybe they’re not the type of person that the poem is targeted to.
But I don’t often feel that some is or isn’t "compentent" enough to read my poem, with perhaps the sole example of a six-year-old. |