Direct Messaging

Open the poet's profile and start a conversation from there. Your first message opens a private one-to-one thread. If they follow you or you follow each other, it goes straight to their Inbox; otherwise, if they have Filter Message Requests turned on, it waits in their Requests tab until they accept. Full guide: Direct messaging →

Yes, for 15 minutes. Hover over a message you sent, click the pencil, change the words, and press Enter to save. The other poet sees the new words right away, with a small edited label. After 15 minutes the message can no longer be edited, but you can still delete it at any time. Editing is free for everyone. Full guide: Direct messaging →

When you have Filter Message Requests turned on in Settings → Messaging, messages from people you don't follow are held in a separate Requests inbox instead of your main Inbox, so unknown senders never crowd your conversations. Messages from poets you follow always skip Requests. On each request you can Accept, Decline, Block, or Mark as Spam. Accepting moves the thread into both inboxes so you can reply normally.

Declining hides the conversation from your view, and the sender is not notified. It's a quiet way to pass on a message without any confrontation. If you'd rather stop someone reaching you at all, use Block instead.

Go to Settings → Messaging → Message Permissions and choose Everyone, Followers Only, or Nobody. On the same page you can also turn Filter Message Requests on or off, set your notification mode, add quiet hours, and manage read receipts.

You can report any single message directly from the conversation using its report option, and pick a reason. You can also mark a whole request as spam — that moves it to your Archived tab with a "Spam" tag and quietly sends a report to our moderation team.

Choose Block from the message request menu, or block them from their profile. Blocking cuts the sender off from your profile, poems, and inbox, removes any mutual follow, and stops future messages. The sender is never notified. Full walkthrough: Block, mute, or report a user →

Your Requests tab is the main filter — with Filter Message Requests on, anyone you don't follow has to be accepted before their messages reach your Inbox. When something is clearly spam, Mark as Spam archives the thread with a red "Spam" tag and reports it to our team for review. Blocking is the hard stop for a sender you never want to hear from again.

Open the ··· menu on a conversation and choose Archive conversation to move it to your Archived tab, or Delete conversation to remove it. To bring an archived chat back, open the same menu and choose Move to Inbox.

Seen means the other poet has opened the conversation since you sent it. Read receipts work both ways: turn off Read Receipts in Settings → Messaging and they won't see when you've read their messages, and you won't see theirs either. Click Save Changes after.

Yes. In Settings → Messaging, under Message Notifications, set Notification Mode to Muted and messages still arrive quietly in your inbox. Or set Quiet Hours to silence alerts at the same time every day. Click Save Changes when you're done.