BOARD LOYALTY, Your views please... Options

[Guest_Xanadu_*]

This morning I received a personal message from the poetry director of poetry board that left me scratching my head. The message indicated that the director was not pleased that I had been posting on other boards and brought into question my loyalty to the directors board. It went on the say that the idea put a "bad taste in her mouth."
She went on to further suggest that the only reason I was doing it was to get nominations for the IPBC
Yes, I do post on several boards. My intention was to get back as much feedback as I possibly could. I wanted to see if the reviews were consistent. Not one to put all my eggs in one basket, I determined to spread myself around a tad. At the time, I was on one board, and had been for many months. I did not see any harm in joining another board.
I would be very interested in your views on this subject. Isn`t the idea of posting your work on line that of being read by more than 20 people?

[Cleo_Serapis]

Hmmm, that's a very strange message Linda. Which board is it? I think if that happened to me, I'd leave it and never look back.

I think the IBPC folks would very interested in hearing how that 'director' treats their members. The whole purpose if the IBPC is to have a chance at a larger audience. I'm not certain how the board you mention does their nominations, is there a submission process there by the members? Here at MM, there's the nomination process and the polling by the members for the members. As owner, I have no more pull than any other member at MM in this process.

I am actually quite surprised that you've been labeled/persecuted for being a member of more than one board. That is ridiculous! Is there something in their rules that caused this to happen? We encourage our members to particpate in more than one board as you'll invariably receive differnt styles of crits on your work. There are MANY people here at MM that belong to several boards. It's a good thing because each board has their own styles of crits and that's the point, isn't it?

I don't want to say too much further right now but I'll be watching this thread with interest.

~Lori