Comments & Reactions

Open the poem, type into the Add to the conversation… box above the comments, and press Post. Your comment appears right away. Comments can be up to 2,000 characters; press Shift + Enter for a new line. Tag another poet by typing @ and their username. More: Commenting etiquette →

Click Like under any comment. Once a comment has likes, the button shows how many. Click it again to remove your like. The person who wrote the comment gets a notification (unless they've turned off the Likes switch in Settings → Notifications).

Yes. Click Edit under your comment (or use the … menu) to change it, or choose Delete from the menu. You can edit only your own comments. Poets can also delete comments on their own poems. Deleting is permanent.

Your edit matched one of the poet's comment rules, so it waits for them to approve it. Until then, other readers keep seeing the comment as it was before you edited it.

Yes, to a comment or to a reply. Click Reply under it, type, and press Reply. Replying to a reply shows Replying to @name, and your reply joins the same thread, so the whole conversation stays together. Long threads show the first two replies; click View more replies to see the rest.

Yes. The poet can pin a comment: it then shows in its own card marked Pinned by the poet, just under the comment box. The poet can also delete comments on their poem, hide one from the poem, reply once per thread as the author, or block a commenter. More: Managing comments on your poems →

They sort the comments. Top puts the most-liked comments first; Newest puts the latest first. The switch appears once a poem has more than one comment.

That's the spotlight. Each comment the poet pinned shows there in its own card, marked Pinned by the poet. Otherwise, once a poem has at least two comments, the most-liked one shows there as Top comment (it needs at least one like).

Once two or more people have commented on a poem, a line above the comment box shows a few of their names and how many others joined in. Each person is counted once.

Poems show 10 comments at first, so the page stays easy to read. Click Show more comments to load 10 more at a time, and Show fewer comments to fold them back. If a notification sends you to a comment further down, it opens straight to it.

The poet may have closed comments. If you see "The author has closed comments on this poem," you can still read the comments but not add new ones. If you see "Comments are turned off for this poem," the poet has hidden comments altogether. If you're signed out, sign in to join the conversation.