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I used to think that if I jumped high enough, I could land on the moon. I still think that, so I guess I must be a kid at heart

This reminded me that when I was a kid, I thought that the reason people could not fly was because they did not practice hard enough and begin young enough. I was determined that I would start as soon as possible, and spent countless hours leaping off an ottoman, furiously flapping my arms. I actually thought I was beginning to make progress.

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If I may throw in one last suggestion: would it not be better to change those buttons to Prose and Verse (or Poetry), and put songs ij the second group as well? Poems are stories too, so that name would be incorrect, and songs on the other hand, are usually poems too.

But why change a label that has worked for years and continues to work? It's perfectly functional and accurate, and appeals to all. Some people get scared away when they see the words "prose" and "verse" because it seems much more formal than it actually is. That's not something we want happening here.

I could say exactly the same about the layout of the homepage. Why change it, when it has always worked fine? Still, change is what we're facing. I think the whole point of that change is, to make it possible, to list prose without having to sift through poetry and the other way around. That is fine by me, but do it consistently and use the correct labels. If I am correct, it was you, that claimed poems are stories too. So to claim now, that poems are not stories, is inconsistent to say the least.

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If I may throw in one last suggestion: would it not be better to change those buttons to Prose and Verse (or Poetry), and put songs ij the second group as well? Poems are stories too, so that name would be incorrect, and songs on the other hand, are usually poems too.

a narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale.

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So I already know my initial opinion is going to be dreadfully overruled and cause a whole commotion that nobody wants. So I might to provide a possible solution. Not everyone likes stories, not everyone like poetry and those short micro fiction pieces, which is understandable for both sides, not everyone's tastes are the same.

So how about we have everything on the main page, and then we have the second and third tabs to choose either stories or poetry or whatever. Or if your one of those extremists you can go into settings and just block whatever genre you don't wish to read or write and it clears the page of those certain genres.

I can personally say that I really don't fancy poetry that much, and seeing the front page is almost always filled with poems everyday, it gets difficult to find stories till eventually I just don't feel like reading anything because all I can find is poems, but that is more so that most people don't write stories anyways. It isn't really anyone's fault that half the people here are poets and even the people who write stories shove out a poem or two every once in a while.

Everyone's work is important, and deserves a place on the front page, so maybe we use the old front page and and keep the new front page as a secondary and third tab for those few oddballs like me.

Does that make sense?

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Perhaps there should be three buttons on the front page: New (Stories and poems, like the old-style front page), Poems (New poems only) Stories (New stories only).

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Right, so I write a poem, designed to make people cry. What happens? The buggers laugh. Why? Do you not get that there's a poignancy to death, and to the poem? The man is in the ground for goodness sake! Yeah, it's absurd, but that doesn't mean that absurd can't be poignant. I do write absurd and silly things, but not all the time. Sometimes I am being serious, and I'd really like people to stop trying to fit me into a genre. I'm not funny. Not intentionally. Sometimes my poems and stories take a bit of interpretation, so maybe bear that in mind next time you read something of mine.

I am really sorry Andrew, but the smile it gave me, wasn't because of what you said with that poem, because I did take that seriously. Still, I can't help enjoying the way you describe even the most serious things, hence the smile.