Is it just me, or are their barks louder than their bites?

Don't be too harsh, dear. I think everyone who posts a poem here knows who is being nasty because (sour gs) they have never written a line themselves (poetry, prose, fiction, non-fiction), and others trying to be genuinely supportive through creative criticism. I think Y!A is still a very gentle, genteel (!) and decent forum (have you seen some of the others?), or so many of us wouldn't keep returning to it.