What's With Some of the New Members (Page 2 of 4)

But if you don't, why not?

This’ll stir ‘em up (especially the passive-aggressives—they’re cute when they get a bee in their bonnet. LOL). I applaud your frankness, my friend.

The first time you get an honest review it can knock you back on your heels. If you are an intelligent new writer, you will sit back and consider again why you are getting so upset about something. You will find that it is the things that upset you have the most value in terms of making you think hard about your writing.
That has been my experience anyway and I consider myself hard-boiled, thick-skinned and no snowflake. I hated inline when I started here (not that long ago) almost retreated entirely, then actually considered what had been said, took a deep breath and stayed. I'm sure my writing has improved because of it.

The reader isn't stupid for mentioning it! I feel if a reader can't 'get' some aspect of the writing, I need to look at how I've expressed what I want to say. If it is just one reader, I might not do anything about it, but if several make the same point, no matter how precious that bit of writing is, I need to adjust it so that the readers CAN 'get' my meaning. Not to do so makes me, the writer, the stupid one.

“...mundane grumble pit for  struggling writers.”

You buried the lede.  Priceless, Mr. Short.  You’re my hero.

Yet the group info page states that posting to this forum is only open to premium members?

I can only speak for myself, but in my experience, all of us writers are struggling.  That goes with the territory.  “Mundane grumbling pit” as I understood it, refers to some of the discourse on this forum.  As to your question - you seem like an intelligent adult. You should decide that for yourself.

Ah, doesn't the past always look better than the present? Isn't the grass always greener on the other side, etc. etc.

In my opinion, there is more talent on this site now than I have ever seen in the six or seven years I've been on it. It was always a "grumbling pit" and that's one of the ingredients that sustained it.

If you aren’t a paying member, you can still “reply” to a post in Premium, but you can’t “create” a topic.

I very much appreciated your encouragement and counsel after looking at my Blue Ruby "gems".

I published Good at Dying  back in March of 2017.

I also conflated 5 short stories into a novella, Buck Fields—At home... and abroad

I wish I could send you copies.

Memphis

The Basic and Premium Memberships were originally intended to replace the Reviewing and Writing Memberships, respectively. However, I can't tell what the Basic membership is all bout these days.

Last I heard about a year ago (I admit I gave up reading all the hoop-la), the Basic membership would be phased out slowly. Was I wrong in my assumption?

The Basic group's description reads, 'This group is for members who just wish to post their writing and aren't interested in trading feedback with other writers.' Does that mean Basic members are still posting their work on the site? It sounds like they've been told they are neither required nor expected to thank reviewers for their efforts, much less give reciprocal reviews. If I were a new member, that's what I would think.

No wonder we're not hearing from them! Intentionally or not, they've been given a free pass, and paid no fee. And don't expect them to comb through the forum threads for our opinions! I was a member for several months before I started reading the forum posts.

Very clever--I thought the Basic group was for reviewers only. I do still see stories that don't give credit for reviewing, but I thought that was because they had been posted in non-point groups. Silly me--there I go assuming!

There's something Basically insulting to Premium members here, don't you think?