The tone of some of the discussions here leads me to believe that some of you didn't take the time to read the link I'd provided
here ... or if you did, you didn't quite grasp the facts presented ... or, if you did read it a while back, the facts might have gotten hazy with time. So, here's a brief presentation of the salient facts:
1. The contents of ALL the workshop forums (Metrical, TDE, Non-Met, etc.) are FULLY protected from search engines with the "no-index" tag which I'd programmed way back to be inserted automatically into those threads posted there. That means, if you pick any poem posted in a workshop forum, and google the first line or any other line for that matter, it should not come up in the results.
2. a) The title of a poem posted in a workshop forum may not be hidden from the search engines because, if that post is at the top of the forum, the title will appear in the Eratosphere homepage summary of the top post in the various forums. That means that while a poem thread is at the top of a workshop forum, a search engine might visit and pick up the contents of the Eratosphere homepage which would include the aforementioned titles from the top posts of workshop forums. b) Thus, as has been suggested/advised in quite a few previous posts, the simple way to avoid that problem, if it's of concern to you, is to simply use a fake post-title for the workshop poem thread when you post it: that decoy title may show up in the search engine results, but it can't be associated with the real title of your poem, or the poem itself.
3. That brings us to Rssing and other such web scrapers and bottom feeders. Even with all that scraping, all they actually have is only the thread titles. Thus, taking the action presented in 2 b) above should take care of shielding your poem from any search. And you may even notice that if you go to an Rssing page that lists a thread here, and click on that thread, all it does is actually forward you to Eratosphere, albeit under an Rssing web frame. So, they're not actually storing the contents of the threads they're scraping, just the tiles.
Hopefully, this should cool down all the raucous and panic and allow those who actually wish to workshop to continue doing so without all the fear factor!
Cheers,
...Alex