Are you serious about poetry?

[O. M. Geezersnaps]

Hello, everyone. I'm curious about this phrase, "Serious about poetry." I've come across this as an accusation, that someone is not serious enough about poetry, in many contexts (here, but not just here). People will say things like, "If you haven't read X poet, then you're not serious about poetry." If you write free verse, if you've never written free verse, if you rhyme or don't rhyme, if you write for publication or pleasure, if you only write sonnets, if you write in the first-person lyric, etc. The list is endless. 

I'm assuming that we all have various other things that we could be doing with our spare time (berry picking, making Nutella ice cream, pleasuring ourselves), yet here we are. So what's the standard you hold, what's your litmus test to say "You are/are not serious about poetry because you...." Fill in the blank. Or, you could construe it another way: "I am serious/not serious about poetry because...."