Sturgeon's Law

"Anonymous" seemed surprised that I deleted his/her comment slams of my last draft. Well, here are two ways you can ensure I won't delete comments as trolling: (1) be willing to put a personal context (name/background) on your comments--if I can figure out who you are or at least where you're coming from in a general sense, you can say a lot and I'll leave it up; (2) be willing to support your argument--sorry, but when I can look at my stats and see you spent a minute and a half on my site to write a one-line insult of the poem, I can't put much stock in what you have to say. Oh yeah, and don't call me "my friend" if I don't know who you are.

If C. Dale or Jordan or Lyle or AJPL or whoever comments that a poem I post needs work, am I going to delete their comment? No. Am I going to heed the comment, whatever I end up deciding? Hell yes. Just something for you to think about, A.