I went to creative corner and read mc2ed's post. I did not find it to be a work of creativity. I too use the dotted way in my posts. short version many schools are now teaching digital / texting short hand, in english classes the students work on computers writing essays, paragraphs, homework, journaling, dictation, taking notes and other writing. part of this is the students are encouraged to get past placing filler words (and, like, ummm, ) with in their communications by placing dots that represent taking a moment to think about what they want to write next.

my suggestion to the moderating team... go to the thread in question and read it, not as old poem styles but rather in the present teaching standard that happens in present elementary, jr high and high schools, that placing dots with in a persons text means they are leaving out filler words and taking a moment to think about the next sentence. maybe you will be able to see what others can see in this thread, that its actually not a poem, not a story, its a regular text expressing someones feelings and views in the new digital way of writing, just like people write lol instead of laughing out loud, OMG instead of Oh My God, Fn instead of... welll you get the picture. we live in computers now so its understandable normal non creative poems and stories would include the digital equivalent of "filler words" like umm

another suggestion.... maybe you can make some sort of icon that people can use like the trigger warning that will let other members know the dots are not designating a story or poem being written. I am comfortable letting others know in my posts the dots are my taking a moment to think but others might want a warning icon to put at the top- of their posts so that this confusion wont happen again.

my opinion after reading the thread in question is that it does not belong in creativity, that the dots are fillers, pauses in thought like students where I live are being taught to use.