comparedby.us changing things up a little

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for those of you who dont know already things are changing.. http://www.comparedby.us/blog/post/member-roles-and-review-submission-limits?postid=9e7cf2f0-f241-42f4-b234-4503793bd72f we have decided to implement a new Review Submission Policy. All members will be ranked on three roles, Rookie, Beginner and Reviewer. Review posting limits will be set for each level at 10, 25, and 60 reviews per month respectively. Rather quickly we will introduce additional roles that will carry greater freedom to post reviews and earn money on ComparedBy.Us. Each role will be limited to posting reviews up to their limit in each pay period (the next pay period is February 16th to March 15th 2009). By implementing these controls we can limit the amount of spam we have to deal with in the near future. It also allows us to control our costs over the next few months so that we can ensure that we are around for a long time. This has the added benefit of allowing our contributing members to earn money long into the future. This current pay period will be affected by these limits starting tomorrow January 10th, 2009. However, the limits will NOT affect any reviews you have already submitted. If you have submitted 50 reviews already this month they will not count against the appropriate limit for your assigned role. It will take us a week or so to incorporate roles into your member profile so that every member can easily know their assigned role. Until then, we will be sending emails to all in the Beginner or Reviewer roles. All other members will begin in the Rookie role. Rookie – limit 10 reviews per month: All new member accounts will automatically start as rookies. This is also the default role for any member that does not qualify for a higher role. The limit of ten reviews ensures that a member doesn’t waste their time posting reviews that will not meet our editorial guidelines. Beginner – limit 25 reviews per month: Only Members who have been editorially reviewed will qualify for this role. Beginner members have obviously shown a willingness to contribute to the community but the content that they submitted is not quite at the level that we require. The Beginner role is meant to be a learning role where members can hone their writing and review abilities with the help of our editorial staff before they move on to a higher role. Reviewer – limit 60 reviews per month: Members who have been editorially reviewed and approved by our editorial team will qualify for this role. These are members that ComparedBy.Us trusts to submit well written, concise and helpful reviews. Eventually this role will encompass the core of ComparedBy.Us members. How do you guys feel about this? i agree that you should only be paid if you are writigng legiit, but to put a limit on how much we write??? im not so happy about that..that means iff all of our reviews are not first review and long review we wont get paid in a months time (under rookie)