A number of new members obviously haven't been reading the rules and therefore have been violating them. Specifically, many of you have been ignoring Posting Guideline #11, particularly the section which reads:

While you're at it, please comment on the poem, not the comments. It is a breach of etiquette at the Poetry Free-for-all to attack or defend someone else's critique. If your ideas differ, simply post your own review.

Do not under any circumstances for any reason refer to someone else's critique in writing your own. We are having to delete increasing numbers of such comments, unnecessarily taking up moderator time which could otherwise be devoted to more productive matters. So don't do it.

In fact, it wouldn't hurt if you reviewed (or unfortunately in a fair number of cases actually viewed for the first time) the rules governing PFFA:


New Posters' Orientation" AKA The Rules -- Short Version.

Posting Guidelines AKA The Rules -- Full Version.