WEEK FIVE CHAT

[Dominate]

Originally Posted by frank

Overall, I probably will not breakdown battles, like this, again, unless I feel absolutely compelled to, because I don't want to spend more time critiquing their verses, than they spent writing them. All in all, I could easily come up with a generic, thoughtless vote without explaining (mentioning superficial shit) and I could easily dismiss these guys efforts, as, utter rubbish, but, that wouldn't help anyone, including myself, and especially, and certainly wouldn't help out the league.
After reading some of the votes of my own battle, I could imagine how someone would feel apathetic continuing just to be subjected to mindless shallow minded critique: that doesn't encourage or inspire the writers or voters to continue to get better and elevate. Even on this battle, the voters haven't been constructive or analytical enough. The voters prior to my vote, were just going through the motions, and it didn't do themselves, yourself, or anyone else any justice. Unfortunately, that's the case with 64 plus line epic verses, its usually a case of voters having to enjoy vs endure.

I agree. And I’m revising my opinion on having 100 line verses in any match in the league for this reason. I like reading a well written long verse, but I don’t like having to write out why I think one is better than the other in a way that gives the writers an appropriate level of feedback. I’m unsatisfied with all the votes I cast this week. I read the verses I voted on multiple times and made a considered choice, but the time it takes to write out all those thoughts and really break down a couple verses like you did isn’t feasible if we want to get multiple votes in over the course of a couple of days to keep the league moving.

My new position is that verses should be capped at 40 lines. 60 for champ matches.