I guess this underscores how in the future, it might be best to just restrict it to unpublished work. I don't think we've had a problem with quality in the recent past, and personally I don't think that just because a work has been published means it's necessarily of "high quality." At least a couple of my "big" publication credits were so-so poems that just resonated with the publication's editor.
In bakeoffs, I always prefer complete anonymity. I won't be doing any Googling of posted poems, and am hopeful that folks won't pepper the threads with comments about the authors. (It's a vain hope, I know).
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