Clichéd. Options

[*Azarel*]

After attempting all sixty-one pages of this forum, it's not surprising to say that only a handful of compositions are skillfully written – and all written by the same few writers. It's not surprising, at least not to me, that the average thread in this forum receives only a few replies, at best; it's not surprising that the mindless drivel fools like to call "raps" receive pages of feedback, while a well thought out piece is overlooked and is lucky if it even gets two replies. But then again, said pieces are rare – hard to find among pages of other sorts of nonsense: finding love, complaining about life, losing love, expressing sadness and depression, dying for love – it's all so common. It's not a wonder that this forum is underappreciated – it seems that nearly all of its authors don't understand what true writing is: you children flock to the forum to post up all of your most recent chicken scratch. Is there any meaning behind your words? Any emotion? Any significance at all? And is there anything that sets it apart from everything else? No, of course not. That's why people disregard this forum. Everything's banal; it's all clichéd.

Yeah, it's different from other shit I've written. HM, I wonder why.

[*Azarel*]

Sounds like a double-edged sword to me. Yes, the writing forum is great, but wouldn't we see more clichéd writing by more people? Yes, more people would come here, but we would also see more clichéd writing & raps as well.

The thing is, we want quality writing here, and that's why we want people to come. But we also run the risk of seeing more clichéd writing and maybe even more raps.

*pouts* Sigh.

I'm not exactly sure what I'm asking for.. probably just more response to the works in here. I calculated the average replies for each topic in each of the community subforums, and it's not surprising that this forum, writing, has the lowest, around seven or so. Even the homework subforum surpasses this, with an average reply per post of nearly ten. And that just, for lack of a better word, sucks.

Either that, or unoriginal poetry. Prose doesn't seem to be popular in this forum, either.

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