Posting Poems
Ratings & Reader Feedback
Privately rate any poem 1-5 stars and leave the poet an anonymous note — what poets see, and what GS Pro analytics add.
Open any poem that isn't your own, find the Ratings & Feedback card, sign in, and click from one to five stars. That's the whole rating. To say more, click Leave private feedback for the poet, write a note, and click Send Feedback. Full guide: Poem ratings and reader feedback →
No — rating poems and leaving written feedback are completely free for everyone, and so is seeing the ratings and feedback on your own poems. There's nothing to unlock and no membership required. GS Pro only adds the cross-poem rating analytics on top.
No. Ratings and feedback are fully anonymous. The poet sees your star value and any written note you left, but never your name, username, or any hint of who you are — there's no way for them to trace a rating back to a reader.
On each of their own poems. The poet gets a private Ratings & Feedback card showing that poem's average score, its total number of ratings, and the full list of star values with any written notes readers left — all anonymized. Ratings are private to the poet and never shown publicly on the poem.
Yes. Pick your stars first, then click Leave private feedback for the poet, write your note (10 to 2,000 characters), and click Send Feedback. It goes straight to the poet, stays anonymous, and is never shown publicly. Sending it locks in your rating and your note for good, so treat it as your finished thought.
GS Pro doesn't gate the ratings or feedback themselves — those are always free. It adds the cross-poem analytics layer on your stats dashboard: a rating distribution histogram, which poems outperform your baseline, and your percentile and rank versus other poets. See what GS Pro includes →
Yes, until you send written feedback. Click a different star at any time to change it, or click Clear Rating to remove it. Once you send feedback, your rating is locked in ("Your 4/5 rating is locked in," for example) and neither the stars nor the note can be changed.
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