When I'm judging a competition, I always Google-search the first few lines of the poems on my shortlist. Chiefly, I'm checking for plagiarism, though. (And protecting myself against the chancer who's tried to slip a Kipling past me.)
Editor-wise, I like what Ross says. "This poem is unpublished but has been presented for critique on a closed forum" sounds like a reasonable pre-emptive measure to me, though I feel that a journal who would object in principle to such a previous "appearance" should say so specifically in its guidelines to contributors.
And as an occasional contributor to the D&A forum, I draw your attention to the fact that measures had to be taken to further protect material from public scrutiny.
Would more frequent culling help?
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