Janiac02 wrote:I may be exceptionally dense, but is there any way to see what is affecting our editorial analysis score? I completely understand the logic behind not allowing rewrites, but I feel it would be helpful to know what I can improve in my subsequent reviews. I fear I am repeating the same mistakes over and over, and my score keeps gradually decreasing.
Okay, I looked into your account. I have figured out what is going on. Originally, I configured the editorial comments to only be shown when a review was rejected or to explain a low editorial analysis score. Your score is very good, which is why you are not seeing those comments. I can see this is still not satisfactory since you would still like to improve your score, especially under the new scoring system which even a fairly good score can be 5-10 points off from getting all the possible points. To compensate for that slight point issue, I will build some bonus points in the amount of about 5 points into the formula.
I am changing it now so that everyone can see the editor comments for all of his or her own reviews.
One reason I was hesitant to do this is that I think a big part of what makes reviews great to read and of a high quality is the original, personal touch each reviewer provides. If you are already getting good scores, putting too much effort into taking every piece of advice from the editors could lead to losing what makes one's own reviews uniquely special and
uniquely fun to read. While the editor process plays a very important role in keeping up the quality, at the same time we do not want to shove every review into a cookiecutter. That would make things a little boring considering we have thousands of reviews on this site.
I understand the desire to strive for that perfect score. But unless editorial score is the only metric on which somebody has less than full points (in which case one would already be level 6 anyway!), then it would probably be easier to accrue more reviewer points in some of the other metrics.
"That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another's. We see so much only as we possess." - Henry David Thoreau
"Non ignara mali miseris succurrere disco." Virgil, The Aeneid
I actually thought of not responding at all because I think there are two sides of both issues, both valid! I do agree with your reasoning regarding certain low-scored reviews. I come across many reviews where the overall content of the review is very good, but there may be several errors that bring down the score. I try to take that into consideration when giving the overall score. I also take into account how major each of the errors are.
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