I'm with you Idle about the word count. I think that would be the easiest way to solve the whole question!! But then what do I know about all this? I just come here and stir up 'poop' once in awhile!! I wouldn't want to be a moderator and have to count the words whenever one looked kind of short, but I would think after a while you could tell at a glance if was 25 words or not. I know back when I was fitting pipe for a living, I could tell 6" when I saw it..at a glance...and even from quite a ways away!! It might not sound the same, but it is :) I have HIGH hopes for this Xomblurb thing cause this is something that has always really bothered me!! Even if I don't have time to submit something, I like to come on here and tell everybody else what they're doing wrong..you know, 'critique'? The least I can do is to share my vast store of writing knowledge, right? :) But I get tired of opening things and finding a run-on sentence or two about something, with a link that takes you somewhere else, and nothing more! Good quality content was getting hard to come by on here for awhile, and I was really getting discouraged. But that seems to be changing lately, and I'm happy to see it!! There are alot of good writers here...and I really think this Xomblurb thing is going to make a difference. It will give everyone a choice for what kind of content they are looking for when they come here. And I guess you can tell I won't be looking at Xomblurbs much! HA! I just wish I had a better understanding of the difference between a Xomblurb and a Xombyte. I'm still opening up little bitty ones with no link in them. They might have 25 words, but that still just doesn't seem right to me. I agree with you that they should raise the limit on a Xombyte to at least 50-100 words...and then have no minmum on Poetry or Xomblurbs. That way there wouldn't be any conflict about it. If it isn't 50 (or 100) words, it's a xomblurb even if it doesn't have a link...period, final, no question, the end, and shut-up about it! HA! But that's just my opinion...?? Lady:P

The word count is left low for Poetry.

Yeah, Lady, it's a bit murky right now. Posts like this one could be either a xombyte or a xomblurb. But if the word count for xombytes is raised, then that will solve the problem.