One of the most awful things that you can do is to tell someone that you like their writing, when your real motive is to get them to read your writing. I'm not a critic, I'm not a teacher, I'm not up, at this time, for joining, or forming, a writer's group, so that we can tell each other how bad each other's poems suck. I'm a writer, a poet, I'm out here doing what I do on my own; I don't really care what anybody thinks about my writing, and I don't really want to read your writing, just because you told me that mine was nice.