Reading New Poems

[annaswirls]

Okay, I admit it, I am ashamed to ask, but it is driving me crazy.

How do you, in a sane way, read, leave comments and then move on to the next poem.

This is what I do, and it is driving me absolutely batty.

1. Read poem. Several times.
2. Vote for said poem
3. Click on public comments.
4. Add my comment
5. Type in fucking password. Usually 2 times (adding another 4 steps)
6. Preview my stupid comment that does not make any sense.
7. Post comment anyway
8. Hit the back button on my browser
9. Get the error message (for submitting form)
10. Click back button
10. Get another error message (for filling form)
11. Click back button
12. See public comments again
13. Click back button
14. Read poem again
15. Click back button
16. Get to new poems page.
17. Have to run downstairs for something and never get back up to read the rest of the poems

what the fuck! It takes me forever. Okay it is worth it, but there has GOT to be a better way.

Someone much smarter than me I am sure has it.

I guess I could put "new poems" on my favorites list. hmmmm

lol

any help here?
am I the only person who does it this way?

~anna

 

[sandspike]

You read too much

You have ask a good question. Don't read the poem after
backing out unless it knocks your socks off. I don't get
the error messages you mention. I haven't found a way
out but backing up.

 

[normal jean]

there is a ghost in my machine, Anna,I do have new poems on my fave list, but lately, I cant get to the new poems at all, so I hop off the PC's that other people make so I can read the poems, I did that with Ange this morning.
I dont have a downstairs

I read the poem, usually a couple of times at least, and on days like today, I get so overwhelmed, like with so many good ones, wow!! today is a very good poetry day at Lit and its worth the aggravation it takes to read them...all!!
good luck sweetie

I have napped my kid and am taking her to lunch, yes I know skoooll is important, but we stayed up late doing mole probs and now I have some major density probs in my head, with my head..oh, lol 6.02 x 10 to the frigging twenty what??? problems and hell, I need a break...

I need you to tutor her, I cannot do it any longer

poems are good, readem

 

[PatCarrington]

Okay, I admit it, I am ashamed to ask, but it is driving me crazy.

How do you, in a sane way, read, leave comments and then move on to the next poem.

This is what I do, and it is driving me absolutely batty.

1. Read poem. Several times.
2. Vote for said poem
3. Click on public comments.
4. Add my comment
5. Type in fucking password. Usually 2 times (adding another 4 steps)
6. Preview my stupid comment that does not make any sense.
7. Post comment anyway
8. Hit the back button on my browser
9. Get the error message (for submitting form)
10. Click back button
10. Get another error message (for filling form)
11. Click back button
12. See public comments again
13. Click back button
14. Read poem again
15. Click back button
16. Get to new poems page.
17. Have to run downstairs for something and never get back up to read the rest of the poems

what the fuck! It takes me forever. Okay it is worth it, but there has GOT to be a better way.

Someone much smarter than me I am sure has it.

I guess I could put "new poems" on my favorites list. hmmmm

lol

any help here?
am I the only person who does it this way?

~anna

anna

i'm with you through number 7.

i used to do exactly what you do from there on. what i do now is go to the bottom of the page and hit the 'stories' link, and then hit the 'new poems' link again

i'm sure that's not the best way, but it works.

 

[Liar]

Okay, I admit it, I am ashamed to ask, but it is driving me crazy.

How do you, in a sane way, read, leave comments and then move on to the next poem.

This is what I do, and it is driving me absolutely batty.

1. Read poem. Several times.
2. Vote for said poem
3. Click on public comments.
4. Add my comment
5. Type in fucking password. Usually 2 times (adding another 4 steps)
6. Preview my stupid comment that does not make any sense.
7. Post comment anyway
8. Hit the back button on my browser
9. Get the error message (for submitting form)
10. Click back button
10. Get another error message (for filling form)
11. Click back button
12. See public comments again
13. Click back button
14. Read poem again
15. Click back button
16. Get to new poems page.
17. Have to run downstairs for something and never get back up to read the rest of the poems

what the fuck! It takes me forever. Okay it is worth it, but there has GOT to be a better way.

Someone much smarter than me I am sure has it.

I guess I could put "new poems" on my favorites list. hmmmm

lol

any help here?
am I the only person who does it this way?

~anna

Here's what I do.

1. When click on link to poem OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW, or a new tab, as I use Opera. This way I always have the New Poems page at hand. No back buttons or error messages.
2. Read le poem.
3. Don't get it.
4. Read le poem again.
5. Maybe get it.

If I still don't get it:
6. Close window/tab with poem.
7. Go back to the list.

If I get it:
6. Vote.
7. Click to read the other comments.
8. Think of something insightful to say about the poem.
9. Come up with nothing.
10. Get frustrated and envious of all the other cool, witty and insightful comments already there.
11. Give up and say "I'll do it later."
12. Close window/tab with poem.
13. Forget to do it, until the next day, and have the same anxiety and frustration procedure with the next day's entries.

#L

 

[Reltne]

On the top of my screen there is a little "down" arrow next to the back button. When I click that a drop down box opens displaying the last pages I have been to. I just highlight and click the new erotic poems page to get back to the next poem I want to read.

 

[BlueskyBeauty]

i'm not alone!

 

[BooMerengue]

I do it the same way Reltne does. Its pretty quick. If I'm doin Mentions I C & P the poem to my Works program and when I have all I'm goin to mention I do the whole thing in Works and then C & P it back into the thread. My pc time is severely limited so I try to do things as quickly as I can. I vote on NEARLY all- I just don't always have time to comment.

 

[annaswirls]

Ah Ha! I will try all said methods, one of em's gotta work for me. I know it is worth it, but with a sliver of time, I wanna get as many poems in as possible.

Liar, okay I lied. I skipped a step, or three

3. Don't get it.
4. Read le poem again.
5. Maybe get it.

Boo when I did reviews I would go to the review page, open one of the poems from the day before's review, then I would have two windows open, one for the new poem one for the review in question, making sure to do a copy every now and then in case I lose it, I won't lose it all.


I wish there was a "next poem" button I could click.

sigh

Pat, I used to do it that way, but sometimes it took me forever to get to the stories page.

~anna

 

[Guest]

On the top of my screen there is a little "down" arrow next to the back button. When I click that a drop down box opens displaying the last pages I have been to. I just highlight and click the new erotic poems page to get back to the next poem I want to read.

That's what I do—it works for me and I have no problemos with it.

Ya'll are just making it tougher then it has to be



- neo

 

[annaswirls]

okay okay I put new poems page on my favorites list.

my kids are too little to say something like

"My mommy has a porn site on her favorites list" at back to school night or at the Giant.


I am a lazy mother. I am still waiting for someone to come organize my poems. They can do my toolbar too.

I will make coffee.

~a

 

[annaswirls]

okay okay I put new poems page on my favorites list.

my kids are too little to say something like

"My mommy has a porn site on her favorites list" at back to school night or at the Giant.


I am a lazy mother. I am still waiting for someone to come organize my poems. They can do my toolbar too.

I will make coffee.

~a

ps who told me to stop writing so many fucking poems and that would solve my organizational problems? Whoever it was I am trying that approach. But with all my extra non-poem time I am just making a mess of the rest of my life.

I am thinking of just giving up.

that way when I die, they will have to search all over before finding the really nasty ones, and give up in the process.

~a

okay I am not at work and my kid is asleep. What am I supposed to do now?

 

[BooMerengue]

I'm probably gonna get a lot of tomatos thrown at me for this but, oh well. I yam what I yam!

I don't even try to do every poem.

There are a few authors whos work I won't even open.

I read the new poets, but if it is a piece that should have seen an editor first, or even an 8th grade grammar teacher, I leave it where I found it.

That eliminates quite a few right off the bat sometimes.

I've always been a sucker for slam poetry, so of course I Mention anything that grabs me instantly. I c&p the part I like into MSWorks, along w/ the title and link. Then I vote and comment.

I then read the more subtle work. I look for form first, not being a lover of free form verse. I'm sure I miss a lot here, cuz what I know so far about form you can print inside a ping pong ball. But I believe one person's trash is another's treasure, so I find what I like and c&p it, also. And vote and comment.

Then I list the others so nothing will be missed. And format it the way I want it to look and c&p it into New Poems Reviews.

But like I have said from the beginning- mine are MENTIONS- NOT reviews. I am not qualified to do reviews. And I have also said I have very little time so it'd be quite easy for me to miss something. I apologize profusely.

When I just sit down to read poems I get carried away- if I like something, I've been known to go to the author's page and read more. And forget what I'm doing. Or a poem might give me an idea, and I start writing- totally forgetting I'm even logged in til the phone rings and I get bumped off.

Maybe this can help.

 

[Angeline]

I use the right click on my mouse to toggle back and forth between the poem and my comment and whatever else I want. I generally think my comments are trite and my comment titles even worse.

And I listen to jazz the whole time.



Oh and I read until I have to leave for work, then I give up. I do read the rest when I come home if I don't finish in the morning, at least the rest by the names I know or when the titles intrigue me, but usually by early evening I feel too brain dead to comment without sounding like a complete moron.

 

[annaswirls]

I love it when you say toggle

 

[jd4george]

There's an old Maine saying that says, "Sorry, but ya cain't get theah from heah." That thought runs through my mind every blasted morning that I read and comment. If I were a woman, I would probably appreciate how strong my clicking finger is getting.

But, I'm not. And I'm not.

So, I muddle through. Like Boo, there's many that don't get opened... I didn't like the first fifty they wrote, why go there again?

I always read poems with a great title. I'll say it again: Want more reads, then write a good title!

I've already discovered a slew of poets that I respect, and I read everything they ever post. Matter of fact, I scroll through the day's listings, looking for them first. And, a lot of you have impressed me so much that I have read everything in your personal catalogs.

Sometimes I vote, sometimes I don't. I'm inconsistent as hell that way. If the poem affected me in anyway, I try to leave a comment. If a poem is mundanely average drivel, it gets nothing. Zip. Nada. And I usually don't finish it.

Matter of fact, because I try to read a lot of stuff, (here and elsewhere), I'll read about four or five lines. If I feel nothing, then I quick skim... and if nothing has happened, then poof... poem's gone. There's too much stuff in this world that I consider good to allow my time to be wasted on words best left in a teenager's diary.

Is that fair? Don't know, and in a very real way, I don't care. I try to share whenever and wherever I believe my two cents might be worth something... and because I'm rapidly moving up the "commenting" list, I guess I believe my opinion is worth a lot! (LOL).

I get lost all the time. My "back" button seems to have a permanent dent in it. Half the time, I lose the comment I've already written and have to do it again. Seems fair.

I never leave a vote less than 4. (Personal bitch here... how is it I can get 10 votes of five, and a fucking 2? Obviously, the ten didn't know what they're talking about!)

I generally leave the thermometer at 100. Judiciously, I will sometimes set it at 75. I never gut anyone. Less than positive feedback makes sense in a personal message.

But, mostly I click and click and click and click. However, reading this thread, I'm glad to know that even the "experienced pros" have the same problems. Cool. I don't feel so stupid.

Now, to find a use for those new finger muscles!

 

[Angeline]

I love it when you say toggle

ooooh toggle toggle toggle.

 

[Guest]

ooooh toggle toggle toggle.

Are those your lips, sexy woman? I'm mezmerized.

 

[Angeline]

Are those your lips, sexy woman? I'm mezmerized.

Well no, but I can make that face real good.

Anyway, I'd never buy that shade lipstick--bad for my skin tone.

(pun intended)

 

[annaswirls]

ooooh toggle toggle toggle.

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