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About This Author
My name is Joy, and I love to write.
Why poetry, here? Because poetry uplifts its writer, and if she is lucky enough, her readers, too. Around us, so many objects abound to write about. Once a poet starts with a smallest, most trivial object, he shall discover that his pen will spill out what is most delicate or most majestic hidden inside him. Since the classics sometimes dealt with lofty subjects with a lofty language, a person with poetry in his soul may incline to emulate that. That is understandable. Poetry does that to a person: it enlarges the soul and gives it wings. Yet, to really soar, a poet needs to take off from the ground.
 
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Off the Cuff / My Other Journal #560380 added January 11, 2008 at 2:24pm
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Ranting against Three-Star-Rating rants
Okay, so this is a rant, but a well-founded one. Believe me, I don't like ranting.
Recently, I read quite a few items that complain about getting a three or three and a half star rating.
What is it that we don’t understand about the rating system? For a long time, on the left column of WC pages, it was announced in red that a three stars rating meant average.
As writers we should learn to read and understand what we read. Three stars do not mean the writing --be it yours, mine, or ours-- is bad. Three stars mean the piece is neither good nor bad; possibly, it can be rewritten to make it better, but as it stands, a three stars rating means the piece is considered average by the reviewer.
Since accepting other people’s views shows a writer’s mettle, a writer needs to be careful when he or she says a three star rating--which means average for this site--is unwanted or has made her feel bad.
People have different criteria and they rate and review differently. A piece that lulls to sleep one person may excite another one. Still, a three star rating means average.
Thus, in order not to raise anyone’s feathers, this is more or less the way I rate:
1 star: The piece is there with only one phrase, line, or meaningless sentence, possibly to insult someone or to fill up the quota to be considered for a RAOK upgrade. A one star is also for pieces written badly on purpose--just for the fun of it--and the writer says it is done on purpose and he needs a one-star rating.
1.5 stars: The piece is not readable due to spelling and grammar errors.
2 stars: The piece has quite a few errors, but it is salvageable.
2.5 stars: Below average with errors that can be fixed.
3 stars: Average - may or may not have many flaws.
3.5 stars: Above average - may or may not have many flaws.
4 stars: Good - way above average or shows brilliance but may have a few flaws.
4.5 stars: Very good - with possibly no mistakes or truly brilliant with an attention slip or typo.
5 stars: Wow! You knocked my socks off. No mistakes and a rare gem.
Happy R/R everyone. 
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