Code of Conduct

1. Posting

Your own work, honestly presented. No AI-written poems right now, no reposting somebody else's work as your own, nothing hateful or unsafe.

• Post your own work If somebody else wrote it, use the link option — never paste their words as yours.
• No AI-written poems for now You can save them in your studio, but don't presenting a generated poem as your own.
• Nothing hateful or unsafe Harassment, hate, and anything sexualizing minors are removals, not conversations.
• Hard things are welcome Poems about grief, illness and despair belong here. Instructions for self-harm do not.

Two of these have machinery behind them rather than just goodwill. Every poem is checked for safety and for plagiarism before it appears, and the posting form asks outright whether AI wrote the poem — a “yes” cannot publish. If a poem you love was written by somebody else, there is a proper way to share it: choose someone else wrote this when you post, and it appears as a link to the original with the poet credited.

2. Engaging

Comments a poet is glad to have received. Critique the poem, never the person. No spam, no pile-ons.

• Leave comments a poet is glad to have received Even the critical ones if they're constructive. Say what landed before you say what didn't.
• Critique the poem, not the person Giving your opinion about the work is okay. Leave the writer out of it.
• No spam or pile-ons Don't advertise in someone else's comments.
• Star what you genuinely like Engagement games are actively sought out and limited.

Posting a poem is an act of nerve, and the first response it gets decides whether the poet writes another one. You are never obliged to like a poem or to comment at all. But if you do comment, say something a person could actually use.

3. What happens if these are broken

In rough order, and depending on what happened: the poem or comment comes down; we write to you and explain why; posting or commenting is paused on the account; the account is closed. Anything involving hate, harassment, or the sexualisation of minors skips straight to the end of that list.

Removing a poem is not a judgement on your writing. If work of yours was removed and you think we got it wrong, say so — the contact form reaches a person, and we do change our minds.

4. Telling us about a problem

If you see something here that breaks these rules, please tell us through the contact form. Include a link. Reports are read by a person, and we will not share who reported what.

These rules sit alongside the Terms of Service, which is the actual agreement between you and First Verse, and the Privacy Policy, which explains what happens to your data — including the promise that your poems are never used to train AI models.

Something here you disagree with, or a problem to report? Use the contact form — it goes to a person.