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Hi, I'm JACE .
Welcome to this issue of the Noticing Newbies newsletter. Join me as I take you into some nooks and crannies of Writing.Com that you may not have found time to check out yet.
Don't forget to toss me a note about what you liked or didn't like in my column, or about a topic you'd like to see discussed. This newsletter is about and for you. And for you seasoned members, I hope you'll find something you can take from my ramblings. 
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Rewarding Reviewers
Writing.Com is a site filled to over-flowing with resources and tools helping us improve our writing abilities. Some are incredibly complex and require intense contemplation on the best way to use them to our benefit. Others are almost straight forward enough that we might take them for granted. One of the former tools is the Review System.
In all cases, we have "Writing.Com 101" to help explain these resources. (And if, after reading the 101 entry on a given subject, you need more clarification, we have several Support forums prowled by members and Staff alike who want nothing more than to help explain a particular question.)
Recently I was rewarded (rather generously, I thought) for an unsolicited review of a new member's posted offering. Having a particular penchant for the Erotica genre, I came across a newbie's first attempt in this genre and thought I'd offer a few suggestions in a lengthy public review. A few days later I received an emailed response thanking me for my comments along with a quantity of GPs three to five times what I normally see. It got me thinking about rewarding reviewers.
Members post their work in hopes of garnering reviews to help them polish that work. Reviewers provide comments on that work for several reasons--they have an opinion of the work they wish to share; they pen reviews to help them improve their own writing; they wish to earn GPs and Community Recognition from various sources; or a combination of all three reasons.
From the member's standpoint, the easiest way to reward a reviewer is to just send gift points. This is most often done in conjunction with the email response block at the bottom of the received review. The member pens a note thanking the reviewer for his help, includes a few GPs, and clicks Send It! The comments go into the reviewer's memory, the gift points into his or her coffers. Nothing more is needed.
But! What if you received a particularly helpful review? Or, you might want to be more forthcoming with your response. Reward the reviewer with the gift of points that has the potential of providing additional tangible rewards. Find your review on the Public Review page. This is easily done by copying the Review ID number (a seven-digit number located in the About This Review: section) into the Search window and pressing Go!
In the upper right corner of the review you'll see a Credit this reviewer window with a drop-down box listing specific amounts of GPs that may be awarded. When a member rewards a reviewer with GPs in this manner, Writing.Com assigns a number of Reviewing Credits to that reviewer. The number of credits assigned is based on the size of the GP award, the length of the review, and other factors.
These credits are valid for 31 days, which keeps the member's credits current with the activity level he or she is putting forth in the community. In other words, the more active a reviewer is, the higher level that reviewer will be on the Most Credited Reviewer list. Usually, members that appear on this list are considered more influential reviewers. This method is only valid for public reviews.
Rewarding reviewers in this way fosters a hardy group of member reviewers who not only enjoy what they do to help members, but also significantly raises the bar for reviewing. All in all, WDC members win when qualified reviewers and aspiring writers get together.
Whenever you receive a review, make it a habit to respond to that reviewer. I realize that not all reviews have a lot of meat with them, and thus you may not feel them worthy of a large award. But, consider that even a small review required some expenditure of time by the reviewer. In my humble opinion, that deserves comment.
Reviewing is an essential and integral part of WDC, and we as members must do what we can to encourage quality reviewers.
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And from the mailbox about a recent Noticing Newbies newsletter, "Alone, But Not Lonely" .
From Elfin Dragon-finally published  : I loved this newsletter of "Alone but not lonely". I suppose because I spend most of my time alone but have moved to the town in which my parents live so I can have their support. Quite time is a precious commodity and getting rarer every day. I see many people spending more time with someone than without. Even when I was married both my husband and I would take at least a day, or two, away from each other because we recognized the value of spending time alone. It refreshes the mind and soul as well as relaxing the body.
I agree. I need some alone time at least once a week. (Hmm, perhaps that's why I've always enjoyed stories about surviving on deserted islands.)
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