Danmei Society for the Egregious Misuse of Chinese Poetry and Literature

Hello all!

I'd like to put out the new set of poems this coming Monday. It'll be another light week, with one 'book'/chapter. I'm hoping Current Events' having slackened a little will give us some time for this?

Please let me know if anything (a date change, dropping down to fewer poems, etc) will make participation more convenient for you, or what format elements aren't working for you. It'd be really good to see some more engagement with the three books that are up, so we can get some momentum going/in the habit of this. You REALLY DO NOT have to feel intimidated commenting--seriously, any impressions are of interest!

In the meantime, here's a post by one of our members on some cool relevant nonfiction, which I'm going to add to the reference post. 

This is a post to drop titles of and links to relevant reading material, be it nonfiction, poetry we might want to collectively hit up in future or read on our own time, or fiction (including trying to hustle up fresh blood for your latest reading/watching obsessions, and information as to where one can find such titles).

We'll talk about poetry and nonfiction as a group before adding it to the Great Plan. 

This post will be made public once the privacy discussion is resolved. 

Thank you everyone who filled out the survey. These were the results:

Especially Comfortable:
Dreamwidth x 8
Discord x 7
Reddit x 5
Email x 2
Slack
LJ

Hard No:
Twitter x 6
Reddit
Livejournal
Slack

I didn't participate because objectivity, or something.

Because the results were so close, let's commit to a review period after we've finished the first poetry collection to see if we'd prefer to move to Discord or are happy here. That sound ok?

FYI, there were about 10 respondees, and say another 4+ who I think may well get 'round to it.

Before I set up the com, what are people's privacy preferences?

- Fully Open Plus: posts not locked, and can tell people to check out stuff on the com where relevant (anyone who wants privacy welcome to join the group via a burner account)
- Fully Open: discoverable, but not really shared around (anyone who wants privacy welcome to join the group via a burner account)
- Compromise Formation: "discussions happen in private but question/poem is in public and maybe an anonymised summary"/private posts and public weekly round ups (This was suggested by a member. Pros: privacy, cons: the work of making the round-up post.)
- Fully Private: Fight Club mode.

Please comment with any thoughts/preferences.

INCIDENTALLY, this does not have to be the Com Name. It is literally just the first thing I thought of, which is no basis for a system of government, and indeed hardly even a good way of deciding what I should have for lunch.