Some advice for an online community expatriate

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06-08-2009, 06:18 AM
Jozanny

Some advice for an online community expatriate

I am probably going to regret this (sigh), but for those of you who pay attention to my posts, you know I have this thing about my old creative writing hang-out @ Poets & Writers. I trotted over to the main web site because I feel I need to get back on top of my literary markets too, (my discipline is getting lax) as well as my paying ones, and I have to say, I am impressed with P&W's makeover. Everytime they upgrade they seem to get more efficient.

I shouldn't have done this I know, but curiosity got the better of me, and the Speakeasy no longer needs my personal information for a login account (like I need another board again anyway!) so I logged in with a new password and id, and boom. It has been roughly seven years since I've been there, and they got rid of their personal writing section, and though this makes me happy, maybe for those students who want to workshop could use LN here if I last long enough to suggest it.

The moderator is the same person I interacted with back in the day, and though I might get away with a few posts, eventually she'd recognize that I had returned.

Now, I don't really need advice from practicing writers (at whatever level) right this second, but I would like to keep the resource in my back pocket.

I have three choices:

1. I can lurk and never post.
2. Attempt to post when needed and never never mention the past:eek:
3. Send the moderator a pm (they have that now) offer a mea culpa and feel wounded when she closes my account again or hope that she doesn't.

And no, I cannot afford therapy or a new round of mood balancing drugs:p (and I am not sure how they cure for poverty, marginalization, and significant mobility limitations, in any case, even if I could afford them).

Let me turn it around, and ask, has anyone ever been forgiven their sins in such instances?

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Never mind. They have a whole thread section called Mediation, and it's being run like a police state. I'm laughing. The regulars I posted with were or became highly career oriented, and had a much greater freedom of expression to engage in issues that concerned us. I guess I don't need it.
06-08-2009, 06:55 AM
Virgil

I guess I've never been kicked off a site. Yes, that may be hard to believe. :D There is one place I self exiled myself, but I assume I can actually go back if I chose. I'm no expert on these things but i assume they will find you out eventually. You might want to send the moderators a note explaining you were on high doses of medication for mood swings :p but now things are all right. i'm exaggerating there. ;) I guess it can't hurt. Is lurking satisfying? Probably not for me.
06-08-2009, 07:30 AM
Jozanny

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Originally Posted by Virgil

I guess I've never been kicked off a site. Yes, that may be hard to believe. :D There is one place I self exiled myself, but I assume I can actually go back if I chose. I'm no expert on these things but i assume they will find you out eventually. You might want to send the moderators a note explaining you were on high doses of medication for mood swings :p but now things are all right. i'm exaggerating there. ;) I guess it can't hurt. Is lurking satisfying? Probably not for me.

I dunno Virgil. Lit Net lets me rant my vinegar as long as I don't go ballistic. I will give this site that. Some of my ex regs are still there, and I am not sure whether I should out myself. They did not have a pm function during my time, but one of my threads, unbelievably, is still being used.

I did lose my temper. I cursed, and complained and became incensed. Over the top drama that more often than not was probably amusing. The reason I don't do it here on LN is I don't have any reason to, don't feel that I have any right to be me. I have been tempted, once or twice, to yammer at Admin about a few things, but let it go, as LN isn't really about the business of publishing, but Poets & Writers had many years of my monetary support, and I felt I had the right to be authentic--not that I am excusing my temper, just trying to explain.

That said, as I mentioned in another thread, it is not the Speakeasy I had, where the depth of exchange is about of the quality I have with you and luke and JBI, etc. So what would I need from it?

I'm not sure. I am not a student anymore--although there are still business aspects I can use support with. But the mod and I don't like our electronic personalities:D. However, she did let me stay awhile in 2002. It is 09 now. I don't know. I will sleep on it.
06-08-2009, 08:08 AM
Virgil

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Originally Posted by Jozanny

I dunno Virgil. Lit Net lets me rant my vinegar as long as I don't go ballistic. I will give this site that. Some of my ex regs are still there, and I am not sure whether I should out myself. They did not have a pm function during my time, but one of my threads, unbelievably, is still being used.

I did lose my temper. I cursed, and complained and became incensed. Over the top drama that more often than not was probably amusing. The reason I don't do it here on LN is I don't have any reason to, don't feel that I have any right to be me. I have been tempted, once or twice, to yammer at Admin about a few things, but let it go, as LN isn't really about the business of publishing, but Poets & Writers had many years of my monetary support, and I felt I had the right to be authentic--not that I am excusing my temper, just trying to explain.

Lit Net has been more than kind to me. I've lost it a few times and while I get my knuckles rapped (ouch!) they have not kicked me off. For that I am grateful.

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That said, as I mentioned in another thread, it is not the Speakeasy I had, where the depth of exchange is about of the quality I have with you and luke and JBI, etc. So what would I need from it?

What you're missing is the exchanges with your fellow professionals. (Oh by the way, did I mention your Christmas poem was quality writnig? It was very good.) Like most places on the internet, each site is a little of something and you find you niche. Unfortunately we don't have a professional corner here.

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I'm not sure. I am not a student anymore--although there are still business aspects I can use support with. But the mod and I don't like our electronic personalities:D. However, she did let me stay awhile in 2002. It is 09 now. I don't know. I will sleep on it.

It's fun to still exchange. This is not quite a face to face human exchange, but then it's hard to have face to face human exchanges with the people one has common interest with. These forums are great for that.