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Wild Poets provides a wide range of opportunities to display your submitted content. As such, we'd like to take the time to describe your submission opportunities and the guidelines for displaying your work, as well as giving and receiving critique.

Wild Poets Permissions

Here's what visitors and Wild Poets can do, depending on their access level. Note that each access level inherits the capabilities of the group above it.

Non-Registered Guests can:

• View Published work
• View Public forums

• Publish Journals
• Post in Public and Private forums in the Cauldron
• Load rich media to the Tilting Rock Gallery, including images, music, and video.
• Comment and rate media in the Tilting Rock Gallery
• Embed rich media in their Journals and Forum posts from other sites. They can also link to their work posted in the Tilting Rock Gallery.
• View and post comments on published Journals and Articles

• Submit Articles for Front Page publications. Articles can be of any media type, or combined media types.
• Change their text editor to the advanced FCKeditor, which enables Authors to load rich media files directly into their content. 
• Post in and view Author-only forums. 
• Use our Project Manager to coordinate large scale projects. Includes a file manager, calendar, task manager, and other collaboration tools.

Submitting your Work

• The Cauldron Forums - This is the best place to submit work you'd like a critique on. To submit a work for critique, simply post it to the appropriate forum as a . Remember that Public forums can be seen by non-registered guests. 

 

• Journals - Journals allow you to publish your work directly, without having to go the Staff approval process. When you first post a Journal, you'll get your own category on the site so that people can easily track your Journal posts. 

 

• The Tilting Rock Gallery -  This is the place to put your rich media files, such as images or video. Files placed here can be commented on and rated if you put them in a public album. You can use the Gallery in tandem with the Forums or Journals if you would like to host your media and then link to it from the Journals or Forums. To get the correct link for Forum or Journal image display, simply navigate to the Gallery, open the image you wish to include, then right click on it and select "Copy Image Url". To insert it in a forum post, paste your link to the image into the post, and enclose it in [img] tags, like this:

 [img]http://wildpoets.com/coppermine/albums/userpics/yourimage.jpg[/img]

For inserting your work into a Journal or Article, use the  button on your editor, and simply paste the copied link from the Gallery into the pop-up that appears. 

Note that the Gallery has a 20mb per-upload limit, and that before you load anything to the Gallery, you must first create an album for the work to be placed into. We highly recommend reducing your images to a width of 600px before uploading to avoid loading errors.

For more information on the Tilting Rock Gallery, please see the Gallery FAQ

• Articles - Articles make up the core Wild Poets Library. Articles are only published upon review of the Wild Poets Staff, and can only be directly submitted by Wild Poets Authors. However, the Staff regularly reads and reviews Journals and Cauldron Critique submissions, and, if a work meets our quality standards, we may move it into the Library. We will notify you if we want to move a work into the Articles section. Articles are promoted on our RSS feeds.

Licensing

All works you submit on Wild Poets are published under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please see our Terms of Use, section 7, for all of our policies governing submissions. Your work will be attributed to and linked to your Wild Poets account. If we see work of yours that we'd like to produce and directly sell on Wild Poets, we'll provide you the opportunity to sign an exclusive licensing contract that will govern the sale and distribution of your work, as well as the compensation and/or royalties we can offer.

Note that our web publishing agreement is non-exclusive, meaning that you can freely submit work published online through Wild Poets with other sites and agencies, provided that their terms of service do not violate ours. We actually encourage our contributors to get their work out to as many people as possible - it's our goal to be a place where you can freely share your talent with the world.

Critique

The main purpose of our forums is to provide a venue for artistic critique for works created by Wild Poets. We also provide critique opportunities on published work via comments.

To submit a work for forum critique, simply post it in the appropriate Critique forum. Note that Public Critique forums are visible to non-registered users, while Private Critique forums are visible to Wild Poets members only. When a registered Wild Poet achieves Author status, they will have access to the Author Critique forum.

Critics should follow these guidelines when critiquing submissions:

• Critiques should always be respectful, regardless of the perceived quality of the work. Abusive critiques can result in banning.
• A critique's main focus should be on how well the work communicates the author's intent. If the author's intent is not clear, it is ok to note this in the critique.
• Critique the work, not the author. No one can truly judge anyone else's talent. However, it's quite alright to give positive feedback about the author's voice or individual style.
• A critique is not a rewrite. It is ok to make suggestions, however. 
• A critique should reflect what you see in the work, including the emotional and psychological impact that the work had on you. This information can be very useful to the author.
• It's considered good manners to tip the person who submitted the work with a karma point. 

Wild Poets should follow these guidelines when responding to a critique:

• Always be respectful of your critics, even if their analysis ends up hurting your feelings. However, if you feel that a critic is being abusive, contact the moderator of the critique board for a resolution. Abusive responses to critiques can result in banning.
• Critiques are voluntary, and not every work submitted for a critique will get one. However, if you are not getting a response to your work, you are allowed to "bump" it by posting a reply to your own submission no more than once every 24 hours. This will bring your submission to the top of the forum list for reconsideration.
• It's considered good manners to tip your critics with a karma point, regardless of their analysis. 
• In general, it's best not to get defensive with a critic, even if you disagree with them. However, you're under no obligation to follow their advice.
• If someone doesn't get your work, it's not the end of the world, nor should you see it as a judgement of your talent. Take all critiques with a grain of salt and a stiff upper lip. A shot of tequila helps too. 

Please note that these rules apply to commenting on published work (Journals and Articles) as well. Comments on Journals and Articles can only be viewed or posted by registered Wild Poets members.

Forum Rules

• Only registered Wild Poets may post in the Cauldron Forums.
• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, journal comments, media comments and private message systems to spam other members.
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For critique, please wait at least 24 hours.
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that violate Wild Poets' community standards. The Wild Poet Staff shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• If you are going to post in languages other than English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
• While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

Solictation of products, services, funds or donations, provided these are relevant to Wild Poets, are allowed. However, spamming will be dealt with harshly. Explicit advertising and solicitating for non-relevant products, services, funds or donations in signatures is also prohibited.

Links in posts must follow these guidelines

• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is relevant to Wild Poets' goals of fostering creativity, and does not violate Wild Poets' community standards.
• Linking to a website where your work is available for sale is not only ok, it's highly encouraged in most cases, provided that the work meets Wild Poets' community standards. If your work is published on Amazon.com, we can offer it for sale in our bookstore - click here and scroll to the bottom of the page to suggest that we publish your title.
• A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site does not violate Wild Poets' community standards.
• Linking to sites that provide spam or host dangerous code may result in banning.

Moderation

Although the Wild Poets Staff attempts to keep all objectionable material off of the site, it is impossible for us to review all content. All messages express the views of the author, and are not the views of Wild Poets. Wild Poets will not be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are hateful, threatening, or otherwise violate any laws.

The Wild Poets Staff reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any content posted on wildpoets.com for any reason. This being said, we are firm believers in Free Speech, and will do our best to balance the need for moderation with the ideals laid out in the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America.

If you need to report another Wild Poet for abuse, you can do so by visiting their profile, clicking the Controls tab, and selecting the Report User option from the profile menu. You will have an opportunity to describe the problem you're having with that member. 

If another user is sending you messages you no longer wish to recieve, you can block them by visiting their profile, clicking the Blocking tab, and clicking the Block user option. 

 You can also report Cauldron posts via the option to Report to Moderator link at the bottom of each post.

Staff Disputes

Any disputes with the staff of Wild Poets will be handled in private through the Private Message System. The Publisher has final say on all disputes. If you wish to escalate any issue with staff please contact the Publisher.

Addendum

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of Wild Poets