Maryann, having stirred up this matter again after having several poems declined by major print journals specifically on account of their appearance at Eratosphere, I must add my voice to those requesting something definitive be done to solve this problem. I would hate to have to give up workshopping as Alicia and some others seem to have done long ago. Online workshopping can be a pleasure in itself, but publication in major journals and good anthologies still seems to be the best way to build or to firm up a reputation.
So if bi-weekly pruning will do the trick, and you now find it easy to prune, then by all means let's try it---at least until we can see if it really works. It took only hours for the robots to find and cache the whole test poem, with a meta-tag, I posted at TDE yesterday afternoon.
G/W
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