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• What's This? "In the Spotlight" by Violet Moodswing , from Barbara
  "In the Spotlight" offers an opportunity for the world to see an extraordinary write,but where do the stories listed under “In the Spotlight” on the front page come from?
• Chatterbox Conduct by Barbara
  Policy updated, November 3, 2007 to make it inline with the policies in effect on all sites.
• Sharepoetry Upgrade by Kevin
  Welcome to the new and improved sharepoetry! We have a lot of upgrades, including both a great new look and a host of new features. One big change is that each membership now gives you access to more features like rich text editing, etc, rather than memberships simply being a hold-more-poems at once upgrade.
  
  Please IM Kevin if you find any bugs or have any reccomendations. Thanks for being a member of sharepoetry!
  
  Update: comments look a bit strange right now when adding, but are really ok if you refresh the page. We hope to have this fixed soon! We're also considering allowing free members access to a few more features as well.
• Sharepoetry going well by Kevin
  We've been very happy with sharepoetry's success - quite a few of you are joining the fray with a zeal for making great comments, thank you!
  
  Updates have been slow lately as we've been working on upgrading allpoetry; once that is finished, expect some nice optimizations!
• Updates - rich editing, cleaner interface by Kevin
  We've changed the rich editing for poems so you can toggle a MS Word like interface. With this change, problems with quotes and other oddness should be a thing of the past. The top navigation is cleaner, and the links along the upper right now have the heading 'local navigation'. Thanks for being a sharepoetry member! Please comment on the boards, or email me at kevin at sharepoetry.com with comments, questions, or problems.
• Free Speech Zone by Kevin
  Sharepoetry believes that poetry is about expression. We put as few limits on this as possible. We’re dedicated to staying as unmoderated as possible.
• Latest Upgrades by Kevin
  You should notice:
  1) It’s faster
  2) black text instead of grey
  3) narrower poem views, easier to read
  4) forum updated to show who made the last post
  5) Featured box on the side, like at allpoetry (instead of at bottom)
  6) Guilds have been disabled for now. They weren’t right for the current site.

  Coming soon: Different rich text formatting (will fix the quote problems). Thanks for sharing at sharepoetry!

• Over 7 thousand comments, two per poem! by Kevin
  Congratulations to the members of sharepoetry – we’ve reached seven thousand comments already in our short time online! That’s over two comments per poem on average (there are 3200 poems posted).

  We hope you’re enjoying the focus on critical feedback, and improving your poetry through our community. Thanks for your support!

• Top commentors rewarded with GOLD by Kevin
  Sharepoetry continues to improve, with support for users, fixes througout the site, and lots of great critiques. Thanks for being a part of the community!

  The free member every day with the most comments will be awarded with a free 1 week gold membership! The race is shown on the front page (all members listed, not just the free ones).

  Comments make the world go around! Now our most active free members will be able to earn their way to being a GOLD member for free!

• 30% off everything in the store by Kevin
  To show our appreciation of sharepoetry members, everything in the store (yes, including points) is 30% off. Enjoy the site, hopefully with a new, fancy GOLD membership, or some extra points!

  Know a friend who is interested in some serious critiques? Now’s the time!

• Why some people have gotten more comments than others by Kevin
  A bug over the last week has caused the ‘poems with rewards’ to not change as it should. Accordingly, the poems that were lucky enough to be on that list recieve roughly 20 excellent comments each. This has now been fixed!

  If you were upset with the comment response thus far, please give us another chance. Overall sharepoetry has been a great success, and I’m excited about it’s future.

• Welcome Allpoetry Users by Kevin
  This site seeks to address a major shortcoming of allpoetry: Some people do not want to give or recieve critical reviews.

  But the poets that do, really want them! The solution is sharepoetry – a poetry community dedicated to the mature poet. Read on for tips on adjusting to this site

• Sharepoetry: for poets ready to grow by Kevin
  When you first start writing, you need encouragment.

  To become a better poet, you need more than that: you need critical reviews from people who aren’t just going to pat you on your back, but give you detailed feedback about their personal response to the poem and areas they thought needed work.