Styx

I noticed. You seem to have been busy.

Took my whole soul, blood, sweat, tears and a lot of procrastination on real life stuff.

Because important. /sarcasm xD

Well, I know you're a male,so now I just need to guess an age... 25?

Close enough: it's 23.

Yay!

So what's up?

The thing is I'm not as well known as you are. That's why I see a problem with you not being talked about when it comes to poetry. Branching out shouldn't be a problem for you which is why I find it very odd you aren't really know for your works like you should be even if you upload one lets say every 2-3 weeks(Not saying that's true but just and example.)

The samples of your others works you've blessed this site with still should get more people's attention. You're breaking grounds with your abilities and I feel like I have sinned hard for not realizing your works earlier please forgive me.

Hey, no problem, I'm just glad you discovered me now (and vice-versa)! I saw that you've been nominated for Best Poet too. You're definitely a strong bet for gold. Good luck.

No I'd rather you, Maka, Oda, Night, or Hyuge win it not me. You're all more talented than I am.

That's hard for me to say. I don't know whether the members back then thought of me as strict or lenient. I tried to use my common sense. When a well-meaning member slipped up, I snapped at him in a tongue-in-cheek, "Curse you for making me work" manner. When dealing with an obvious troll (and yes, we had them), I knew that wouldn't work so I spent less time preaching and more time warning.

That being said though, I was more of a janitor than a hall monitor. I spent more time cleaning up Discussion and making sure it stayed cleaned up than intervening in conflicts. It was dull work, but someone had to do it, more specifically me.

I see.

I thought his answers were pretty telling this time actually.

For all but his answer to #2, which I thought was a bit of a cop-out. If taken at face value, you'd suppose he knew at least a little about every flavor of artistic pursuit and academic profession, and the only thing he lacks in knowledge pertains to banal pieces of interpersonal exchanges, like what you've had for breakfast. No one would know that unless they either inquired about it directly, or were present as you ate it.

Which, maybe is correct. He amazes me.

Have you ever considered applying again?

Nah. The reason I quit in the first place was because I lost my motivation for it and things got busy for me in real life. I believe it wouldn't be any different if I re-applied now.
Are they looking for new staff members then? Why don't you give it a shot?

Not currently, no.

I've applied a few times, but was rejected each time. The first time was because of some issues I had. The second I improved on a lot of those, but still had a few. Then the third time, which was back in April, that I just recently asked about was because they weren't looking for staff.

I'm doing well myself. Currently studying for my GED.

I've passed three of the five tests so far.

[*]Reading: 480
[*]Writing: 700
[*]Social Studies: 530


Current average is 570.

Just science and mathematics left.

Good luck with them! I bet you'll do well.

Thank you.

/late response is late (although I did see it)

Good point. You're off the hook then. XD

Even while majoring in evolutionary biology and often being told exactly that, I doubt it'd be quite that simple. Polygamy with minimal parental care is generally beneficial for a male's survival, and knocking girls up and not paying alimony isn't exactly accepted if I recall correctly.

Could you expand on that? How polygamy with minimal parental care is beneficial.

Nah, I reconsidered it this morning and I haven't taken some things into account. In a whole lot of species, males benefit from mating with as many females as possible because their gametes, the sperm cells, aren't costly to produce. Females, on the other hand, produce costly ova so they benefit from rearing fewer but higher-quality offspring.

Of course, in a competitive population of polygamous males, one or a few monogamous males that rear higher-quality offspring would have an advantage. At least, this is true for some species. That's why there are monogamous animals and polygamous animals.
And that, LARiA, is how an evolutionary stable strategy (ESS for short) is formed.

Of course. It's one of those things that everyone does but hates to admit. Liking playing air guitar or air turntables in your room, or farting in bed.

Thanks. Your reply was pretty darn good too. I don't like to gang up on people but I really couldn't let it slide...

Cheers. I don't particularly like it, and it's not really ganging up, as much as pointing out flaws. Pointing out obvious flaws isn't really ganging up on someone, though.