How are you increasing your reviewer's score?

[Michelle Farnsworth]

But I think the best ways to move up the levels are making sure you comment on other’s reviews so that they will comment on yours. The popularity rating seems to be important here and you can gain points with more comments on your reviews. Make sure you also get your points for reading the book of the month and commenting on the forum. I’m still having issues trying to get the facebook sharing bonus to give me points, but somehow it never gets me points (only “entries”) and nobody has been able to help me there either. The support staff here is all but useless, unless you’re lucky enough to be elevated to a manager. If you happen to hear back from this person, they tend to be much more helpful.

Hi Alissa, I am pretty new to OBC. Where do you find others reviews? I have been searching the site but can't seem to find it.

[Diana Lowery]

But I think the best ways to move up the levels are making sure you comment on other’s reviews so that they will comment on yours. The popularity rating seems to be important here and you can gain points with more comments on your reviews. Make sure you also get your points for reading the book of the month and commenting on the forum. I’m still having issues trying to get the facebook sharing bonus to give me points, but somehow it never gets me points (only “entries”) and nobody has been able to help me there either. The support staff here is all but useless, unless you’re lucky enough to be elevated to a manager. If you happen to hear back from this person, they tend to be much more helpful.

Hi Alissa, I am pretty new to OBC. Where do you find others reviews? I have been searching the site but can't seem to find it.

https://onlinebookclub.org/reviews/

[Michelle Farnsworth]

Thank you! I appreciate it.

[Umesh Bhatt]

As per my experience, there are many things which contribute to a better score and one of that is no grammatical mistakes in our reviews. In one of my reviews where there were almost no mistakes, I got editor's score as 80% but in the second one some mistakes remained unedited and the editor's score came down to 9%.
To that extent I would say that checking of reviews by editors is strict but from the website point of view it is required to separate out the better reviews from the rest. Moreover, if there are such large number of reviews being made by members the website cannot proceed ahead successfully without strict rules.

[Lauren Stjohn]

These are most valuable comments. I started reviewing books about 3 mi this ago. This has been a very slow process. I just received a ban for alleged AI. The only tools I use are a dictionary and thesaurus. Perhaps these are a bit old fashioned. Needless to say round and round with no assistance or help other than a response with a link that doesn’t work. Also Scott advertises a PRO on his LinkedIn page which is for AI writing tools. If there is someone that can give some input, I would appreciate this. How does a “system” give a reaction and it is absolutely false?

[Carole Kendall]

I don’t have the answer to your question, but Ihave a related question. Is there somewhere on this site that lists what the requirements are for each of the six levels? I have looked, but can’t find this information. Thanks for any help.

[Kristin Paolantonio]

https://forums.onlinebookclub.org/revie ... -score.php

It took me awhile to find that. I actually found it accidentally one day. If you are at your scorecard section go down to
the blue links and find level tables or something like that.

[Carole Kendall]

I have a question about counting errors. How do we know if errors are due to the author’s carelessness or to the printer’s. For example, I just read a great book, but there were several places that a word was split up in a weird way -“an other instead of another,” “plea sure instead of pleasure,” etc. I find it hard to imagine the writer splitting up words in this manner, but they clearly are errors of spacing. Can I list them and say they were most likely errors by the printer rather than the author? Thanks for any help.

[Kristin Paolantonio]

I don’t want to give a wrong answer- this is only my opinion. It looks like editing errors. The author still needs to check that before submitting the book. I see what you mean, that it is not an actual grammar error but a formatting issue.

[Diana Lowery]

I have a question about counting errors. How do we know if errors are due to the author’s carelessness or to the printer’s. For example, I just read a great book, but there were several places that a word was split up in a weird way -“an other instead of another,” “plea sure instead of pleasure,” etc. I find it hard to imagine the writer splitting up words in this manner, but they clearly are errors of spacing. Can I list them and say they were most likely errors by the printer rather than the author? Thanks for any help.

This is a quote from the guideline requirements:
"Typos and Unintentional Grammar Errors: If you notice any typos or objective unintentional spelling/grammar errors, you must take notes of them, up to at least the first ten."
Splitting up a word in a weird way should be listed as an error.

[Carole Kendall]

Thank you for your help.

[sayjil gordhan]

I’ve also been trying to get my score to increase. For now I am on level 6 but that is because I bought the new book. But the points will expire and I will drop to level 1.

[sayjil gordhan]

I don’t have the answer to your question, but Ihave a related question. Is there somewhere on this site that lists what the requirements are for each of the six levels? I have looked, but can’t find this information. Thanks for any help.

Yes. It’s on the score and level tab. You can scroll down for the score table. You need 90-100 points.

[Menake11]

I joined this month and I just got my first scorecard this afternoon. Made me really sad because I honestly didn’t expect such a low rating. I’m currently on -28/100. Whatever that means! I wonder if anyone else had such a disappointing start. I’m still hanging in there and expecting the best. It’s not easy at all.

[Catherine Sweet]

Hi Menake, try not to get discouraged. It's easy to get a low score at the beginning when you're not used to the system. Make sure you follow the guidelines, such as writing 300 words or more, saying what could be improved, writing about your rating in the review and justifying your rating.
Good luck!