HelloPoetry

Okay campers, welcome to "Hell No poetry" the best place on the World Wide Web to have your poetry and personal character assaulted by the worst trolls anywhere to be found. It's a quaint little stroll at first, enjoyable and fun, and then, once you get noticed, you become a target for the HP elite 'home guard'. I mean, after all, how dare you steal glory from them! First there is the ringleader, r aka Woody, aka James and many other accounts (he even tried to pass himself off as a Lakota Indian once). Then you have his sidekick and and subservient crackwhore and noted criminal Vicky aka Deena and many other accounts., Following with his nose so far up Rick's $#*! his face explodes when r farts, there is Gary Loftis, career criminal, drug addict and woman beater. They have a few more in their gang of misfits, but they are the core of the issue.The site owner, Eliot York who hasn't figured out where his testes are yet, follows their advice and their lead instead of running his poetry site, and never responds to issues from other members. This place is poison for decent minded poets, avoid it like the plague!

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

I had posted a poem a few years back and I cant find it anywhere. Why did you delete it? I do not have the paper copy anymore so that was my only way to find it again was on your website. Thanks for deleting my heart felt poem $#*!

First off, the site manager, Eliot York, is about as useful as tits on a bull as a webmaster. He does not respond to member issues. He does not enforce his own guidelines and he allows bullies and popularity seeking trolls to run roughshod over the site... the key antagonists call themselves "the home guard" when, in fact, they are the most vile, wicked and spiteful group of self loving maggots on the poetry internet.

These so called "real poets of Hello Poetry" maintain control over the site by using multiple accounts (some of them have up to a dozen different personae) to grant themselves popularity and to gang up on those whom they choose to chastise and humiliate and, eventually, run off the site. It boils down to sociopaths with narcissistic personality disorder, who envision themselves as elitists and gifted writers, while they are basically poem repeaters, plagiarists and drunks and drug addicts with failed lives and a grandiose sense of self esteem and importance.

Should you question them, or get too popular, they will create lies to convince Eliot to remove you from the site. They pay him quite nicely for his "troubles". And they maintain their reign of terror through attrition and inboxed harassment and death threats. Including blackmail... and willful defamation of character.

They would rather be tadpoles in a mudhole than be fish in a potentially much larger pond. If you value your reputation and your writings, do not taint them with the indelible stain which Hello Poetry will leave upon you...

Hello poetry is in fact a saggy, hairy ballsack masquerading as a poetry site. 1 out of 10 would not bang, would not recommend. It was ok at first, now it sucks major gonads

HELLOPOETRY IS a front for a chinese prostitution ring. DO NOT GET INVOLVED with these people. I told the site owner Eliot York about this situation and he never got back to me. He doesn't seem to care what type of criminal involement he gets tangled up with as long as they pay him. The federal authorities have been contacted. Skip this site.