Instead of talking about solutions that would call for programming that none of us can do, and time that Alex may not have, it might be wiser to discuss solutions that are within the power of moderators, critters, and poets, and to test those solutions.
Poets can delete their own poems at any point. We should test whether the title that remains still produces results in a Google search.
Critters can refrain from duplicating whole poems, or pieces of them, in their critiques, to respect the poet's desire to avoid Google.
I believe moderators can edit out titles, though I'm not sure; the board might balk at an empty title field. (This has never been done or discussed.)[editing back: I experimented with my own LJStalker thread, replacing the title with underlines. Now the thread doesn't seem to show up at all. Hmm.]
Moderators can delete threads, though the policy has been not to delete poem threads on request but rather to let them stand until pruning time.
Let me be clear that I'm not proposing any particular solution. I am not saying these would be good ideas. I am trying to discourage people from getting excited about a solution that asks Alex for a major time commitment.
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