Concerning Trend I've Noticed

[Kiwi Peewee]

Here’s how I see it:

People that give an auto-loss to someone for not capping their multis are lazy or dumb, and should give their best effort to find the rhymes.

People that don’t think you should cap your multis are bitchy and inconsiderate. It costs you nothing but it makes the voter’s life a lot easier. Different people have different accents and if you want someone with a different accent to recognise a rhyme in your accent you need to point out the rhymes so they see what you’re doing. Also, since “filling the box” basically leads to an unbroken wall of text, it’s really hard to grasp the flow and cadence of a line until you’ve read the next one and worked out there the rhymes are and how they fit together, whereas when you mark out rhymes the same way you’d emphasise them verbally, this at least gives the reader a fighting chance.

I do also agree that people start to pull really long multis, but lots of people cap their multis and still stay between 4-6 which is the ideal zone imo.

[Kiwi Peewee]

Here’s how I see it:

People that give an auto-loss to someone for not capping their multis are lazy or dumb, and should give their best effort to find the rhymes.

People that don’t think you should cap your multis are bitchy and inconsiderate. It costs you nothing but it makes the voter’s life a lot easier. Different people have different accents and if you want someone with a different accent to recognise a rhyme in your accent you need to point out the rhymes so they see what you’re doing. Also, since “filling the box” basically leads to an unbroken wall of text, it’s really hard to grasp the flow and cadence of a line until you’ve read the next one and worked out there the rhymes are and how they fit together, whereas when you mark out rhymes the same way you’d emphasise them verbally, this at least gives the reader a fighting chance.

I do also agree that people start to pull really long multis, but lots of people cap their multis and still stay between 4-6 which is the ideal zone imo.

[TKtheGREAT]

Originally Posted by Kiwi Peewee

Here’s how I see it:

People that give an auto-loss to someone for not capping their multis are lazy or dumb, and should give their best effort to find the rhymes.

People that don’t think you should cap your multis are bitchy and inconsiderate. It costs you nothing but it makes the voter’s life a lot easier. Different people have different accents and if you want someone with a different accent to recognise a rhyme in your accent you need to point out the rhymes so they see what you’re doing. Also, since “filling the box” basically leads to an unbroken wall of text, it’s really hard to grasp the flow and cadence of a line until you’ve read the next one and worked out there the rhymes are and how they fit together, whereas when you mark out rhymes the same way you’d emphasise them verbally, this at least gives the reader a fighting chance.

I do also agree that people start to pull really long multis, but lots of people cap their multis and still stay between 4-6 which is the ideal zone imo.

I'm not saying your getting an auto loss for not capping, but I will severely reduce the scoring, especially in higher profile battlers... cappin and making sure the multies rhyme is what has been preached...its not about looking for the rhyme pattern...I can figure that a specific word was supposed to be capped..im still deducting points for avoiding the format...the bottom line is people are taught to do it one way, and are now being taught to ignore that for a concept that neither helps the reader or writer.

[TKtheGREAT]

Originally Posted by Kiwi Peewee

Here’s how I see it:

People that give an auto-loss to someone for not capping their multis are lazy or dumb, and should give their best effort to find the rhymes.

People that don’t think you should cap your multis are bitchy and inconsiderate. It costs you nothing but it makes the voter’s life a lot easier. Different people have different accents and if you want someone with a different accent to recognise a rhyme in your accent you need to point out the rhymes so they see what you’re doing. Also, since “filling the box” basically leads to an unbroken wall of text, it’s really hard to grasp the flow and cadence of a line until you’ve read the next one and worked out there the rhymes are and how they fit together, whereas when you mark out rhymes the same way you’d emphasise them verbally, this at least gives the reader a fighting chance.

I do also agree that people start to pull really long multis, but lots of people cap their multis and still stay between 4-6 which is the ideal zone imo.

I'm not saying your getting an auto loss for not capping, but I will severely reduce the scoring, especially in higher profile battlers... cappin and making sure the multies rhyme is what has been preached...its not about looking for the rhyme pattern...I can figure that a specific word was supposed to be capped..im still deducting points for avoiding the format...the bottom line is people are taught to do it one way, and are now being taught to ignore that for a concept that neither helps the reader or writer.