Inca L.

What is Hello Poetry?
Hello Poetry (HePo) is for the poetry in your life; a place to belong; a place to practice expression, play, reflection, vulnerability, exposure, forgiveness; a place to be unfinished, unpolished, works in progress; a safe space for your expression, creativity and chaos; a tight-knit online community; whatever you want it to be.

Who Am I - The Reviewer
- I have been a community member and contributor on this site since 2011
- I enjoy the HePo who's who game but do not propose it to anyone
- My review is tight. Everything I do on the site is a test. I know what I know is true.

So You Want To Join Hello Poetry - Know This
- Eliot York and his moderators are the trolls
- Eliot York and his moderators are the cause of good members going rogue
- Eliot and his moderator use site tracking tools against you that you do not have
- Eliot and his moderators will invade your privacy to find out who you are
- When you join and log in, the moderators track your IP address
- If you upload photos, the moderators track your metadata
- If you upload photos, the moderators will do a reverse image search to find out who you are
- If you use your real name, the moderators will do a background check on you
- Eventually, you will be DM'ed from several accounts, all from the same moderator, phishing info
- If you are okay with all of this and get with the program, you can be part of the community
- If you find an invasion of your privacy offensive, then you leave or slowly lose a war, your choice

If You Still Want To Join
- Always use a VPN
- Do not use your real name
- If you reveal a profile location, make it match your VPN location
- Remove all metadata from your photos
- Do not use a photo of your face unless you know how to alter it so that reverse image lookup won't work.

If You Want Multiple Accounts
- Use a different VPN location for each account
- Use a different browser for each account
- Limit your direct messages and responses
- Limit your comments and replies
- Become a competent character writer
- Blend in and do not offer your best work
- Do not be bluffed
- Do not be gullible. No matter what you think, many of the accounts are the same person
- There is one moderator who is very good at beating you at this game.
- You will win some and lose some, be at peace with it

Do You Still Want To Join?
- For the last year or more, the site throws an absurd number of -502 errors
- The site works so poorly as of this review that you cannot get the site to send you an email verification
- At this time, you cannot complete your new account setup.

Are There Legal Issues?
- It wouldn't be a surprise if Eliot is being sued by community members
- Several years back, Eliot solicited funds from the community for a mobile application he didn't deliver
- Some contributions amounted to hundreds of dollars

The Hello Poetry site is dead. All the actual members other than a few have left or stopped posting. New account requests cannot be completed except by the moderators who flood the system. Nearly all of the poetry you see is from Eliot and his moderators, especially one of the moderators.

Do You Still Want To Join?
- You can't
- Go elsewhere
- Don't look back