Michael, I know my view of this differs from yours, but here goes: I'd like it brought up with publishers because, honestly, I'd like there to be a general understanding among them that workshopping is not publication. That understanding does not exist right now. Unless we talk up that idea, it will never gain currency, and we'll go right on having doubts about whether we can safely submit things posted here.
Right now, there's a post at the top of all the forums that tells us we can't gut out our poem threads, that we have to leave the poems up a certain length of time. It's too long for my comfort, and that's another thing that makes me unhappy about posting poems.
Naturally, you can (and will) do what works for you. It doesn't work for everybody.
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