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Public Reviews, Top 50 Reviewers & More!

Greetings, Members!

Once again, we have tons of exciting new features to tell you about!
Don't miss a single part of this email.

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:: Introducing Public Reviews ::
Reviewing is an extremely important part of the Writing.Com community.
Helpful, honest reviews assist our authors to improve their talents. Members
now have the option of having their reviews included on the Public Reviews
listing page.

This page can be found by clicking Reviewing from within the site's main
navigation or "Public Reviews" from within your Item Jumps pulldown menu.

:: Rewarding Reviewers ::
There is no doubt about it, high quality feedback is invaluable to writers and
beneficial to everyone involved. If you see feedback on the Public Reviews
page that was helpful to you or you appreciate the time spent helping another
Author, you can recognize and reward the Author for a job well done!

To award Gift Points to a Reviewer, simply choose the amount of GPs you'd
like to award and click "Send!" This will produce a small popup window
allowing you to include a comment with your awarded Gift Points. If you
would like to send the reward anonymously, just click that option.

When a member awards a reviewer with Gift Points using the Public Reviews
page, Writing.Com also assigns 1 to 9 Reviewing Credits to the recipient. The
amount of credits assigned is based upon the size of the Gift Point award.

For more information, please see "Reviewing @ Writing.Com" .

:: Top 50 Reviewers ::
By tabulating the Reviewing Credits of our members, Writing.Com ranks and
displays the Top 50 Reviewers within our community. This list can be found
from within the Public Reviews page. From the Top 25 Reviewers listing, you
can view all Public Reviews that each member has given.

Ranking is determined by combining the credits earned and the Reviewer
Influence of those awarding Gift Points. Our Top 50 list consists of the most
active and influential Reviewers on Writing.Com.

:: Reviewer Influence ::
Writing.Com has adopted a real world system of influence. Members who
have received more Reviewing Credits than others are treated as having a
higher influence within the system.

In other words, members who have been awarded Gift Points for helpful
reviews will have more influence than members who have not received an
award. Essentially, we are automatically giving more credit to their opinion
because other members have already assigned credit to them.

For more information, please see "Reviewing @ Writing.Com" .

:: New Requirement For Promotion ::
In line with our goal to promote reviewing within our community, we've added a
new requirement to the future attaining of Preferred Authorship:

- a minimum of 50 quality reviews given to a good mix of other members

For more information regarding promotions to Preferred Author, please see:
         http://www.writing.com/main/faq#become_pref
This new requirement applies to future promotions only and will not effect
existing Preferred Authors.


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