That's news to me. I was under the impression, apparently mistaken, that the no-index tag worked on all subsequent posts in the same thread.
At any rate, I'm quite sure that I have seen many, many poems that were workshopped here at Eratosphere appear in many, many journals whose policy is not to take previously published poems.
I would not suggest trying to deceive an editor whose guidelines make clear that they regard posting to a workshop as "publication," but most guidelines that prohibit prior publication do not make clear that they hold this less-than-obvious view, and indeed, many journals do not regard posting to a workshop as prior publication. So it seems to me that in those cases it's fair to resolve the ambiguity in your own favor, but also take steps (like using no-follow tags) to minimize the chance that anyone who is not a regular at Eratosphere might stumble upon your poem here instead of reading it first in the magazine in question.
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