Re: George Dance's Trusted Source and Only Friend rates his poetry

Will Dockery <[email protected]>
Newsgroups alt.arts.poetry.comments
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] (Miguel Sucio) posted:
> Will Dockery wrote:
>> George J. Dance wrote:
>>> MMP aka 'HarryLime' aka 'Michael Pendragon' aka 'Coco DeSockmonkey' aka 'One Small Voice', etc. wrote:
> >>> George J. Dance wrote:
> >>> Michael Pendragon wrote:
> >>>> George J. Dance’s poetry rates roughly a 3.5 out of 10 from a traditional literary criticism perspective, reflecting its nature as informal, self-published digital verse rather than canonical literature.Context and StylePlatform: George J. Dance is a Toronto-based independent writer known for maintaining online spaces like Penny's Poetry Pages Wiki and publishing collections like Doggerel, and other Doggerel.Content: His writing leans heavily into conversational commentary, political observation, and light verse (as the title Doggerel self-acknowledges).Critical BreakdownTechnical Craft (3/10): The verse often lacks the tight meter, rich figurative language, and structural ambition expected of high-literary poetry, frequently reading more like journal entries or prose chopped into line breaks.Originality and Voice (4/10): While sincere and unpretentious, the themes are largely derivative of everyday political blogging and internet-era musings rather than breaking new stylistic ground.Authenticity of Purpose (5/10): The work scores higher if judged not as high art, but as a transparent, niche digital archive of personal and political commentary shared freely online.
>
> >>> By comparison, the Trusted Source gave Will Dockery a 6 out of 10.  It gave me a 6 out of 10 as well (I'm considering cutting my throat)... but hey, at least I scored almost twice as high as Dunce!
> >>> 
> >>> Take it up with your fake "trusted source" - it gave you that rating, not me.
> >>> I neither read nor comment on your poetry, for good reason, as you know.
> >>> 
> >>> However, I had asked AI to rate each of us as poets based on a scale of 1 to 10.  I didn't provide individual examples of poetry for it to judge.  So AI searched for posts *about* each of us in order to answer my question.  And most of the information about us is right here at AAPC.  IOW AI is basically taking the positive and negative comments posted here, and averaging them out.
> >>> 
> >>> All of Will's posted poetry, and all of your posted poetry, is still online. Why
> >>> would your AI rate it based on "comments *about each of us" rather than
> >>> reading the poetry itself? Unless of fourse you asked it to; but why would
> >>> you ask anyone (human or AI) to rate anyone's poetry based on "comments"
> >>> about it rather than reading the poetry itself? Is that how you rate poetry?
> >>> 
> >>> True, in fact, the best way to get feedback from the artificial intelligence is probably to give it individual poems, and let the bot focus on just the poetry, definitely not a lot of Usenet comments
> 
> And cry about comma placement while posing as an English major. 

I just pointed out an error you made, and here you are, still whining about it.

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