As a poetry resource this site is pretty good, and it is free. The downside is that it is flooded with advertising, which seriously impairs use of the site. People who seriously want to read, post and exchange poetry comments are left frustrated.
On the downside, the trolling, doxing and abuse on there are woven into the fabric of the site, and the administrators do nothing to prevent it. During and following an extended period of trolling, posting of my private details, and threats I received no support whatsoever from admin, until I threatened them with legal action, began contacting their advertisers to inform them of the bullying and trolling with which they were associating themselves, and flooded them with complaints. After this they slowly and reluctantly began to react, but gave the impression they thought that I was the problem rather than the small group of perpetrators.
If they cannot monitor and administer the site effectively and as if they care about their members they should close the website down. Given the state of it and the rate at which people are abandoning it I feel it may close eventually anyway.
Wow! I can guarantee that anyone sending inappropriate pictures would get an immediate ban. Please definitely report that to our moderators, we take it very seriously. For obvious reasons, messages are kept private until a report is made, so we can't know about it if it isn't reported. We do often suggest the ignore list as a "first step" for people that you don't agree with, but definitely take action on more serious things like you are describing.
Cliques and the small group systems - this is hard to deal with unfortunately, but I do understand it can be a problem sometimes. If a bad situation arises in a group, people involved in the group (sometimes without all the information) take a side and people can feel ostracized from that. This happens in ANY group scenario though - college friend groups, poetry ready groups, etc. Nagitating social situations gets complex sometimes :( Our moderators only take action based on complaints, so please do use the gear icon -> contact us if you think people are going to far and want us to take a look and see if any rules have been violated. I wish you luck in your poetry for the future!