Giving extra points for reviews

Would that we could. I've made similar suggestions in the past and they got shot down each time. I would love to be able to reward specific reviewers who take a huge amount of time doing detailed reviews of my work, even though they could just drop five comments in an inline review and leave. The best way to deal with the points economy on the site is to give detailed/helpful reviews to those individuals you want to acquire/keep as reciprocal reviewers.

Giving extra points from your own stock is a good idea. It creates an extra incentive for anybody to review particular stories, and is also a recognition to those who review many stories and have accumulated many points. The main objective of this site is to exchange reviews. If somebody has already reviewed a high number of stories and, in consecuence, acumulated a large amount of points, he/she should be in position to offer some of them as an incentive to others to review his/her story. Sounds fair.

What do you think, Sol?

Kiss,

Gacela

That's exactly what I'm proposing. It's a common practice in our competitor site. People offer extra points during limited time. E.g., an extra point, or an extra 0.75,  if you review any of my chapters one to five. It can certainly bankrup you if hordes or reviewers fall on you, which is unlikely. What is likely is that you will receive an interesting number of extra reviews, or the usual amount of reviews but faster. Once you receive enough reviews, you remove the incentive, or move the incentive to chapters 6 to 10.

I do think it's a good idea, and lots of people do it in the other site to pull the reviewers' interest.

I'm not against your idea of giving extra points to people who, according to each writer's own judgement, have provided particularly helpful reviews. The problem with that idea is that is discretional and may spawn wrong practices. Imagine you and I are friends and you know I'm short of points, because I've not reviewed other people as I should, but I still want to publish. If you wish, you can transfer to me as many points as you wish as soon as I review one of your chapters, only because you wanna help me.

My idea, IMHO, is more fair. You give extra points to anybody reviewing your work, and it creates a larger review exchange. The objective of this site is to foster cross-revision of chapters. I know that, sometimes, the quality of the reviews is not very high, and you risk getting poor reviews in exchange of extra points, which won't be nice, but you can get crap nowadays, and people fishing for points have been reported and banned from the site in the past.

Kiss,

Gacela

I think you're all getting to why extra points haven't been offered.

There's potential abuse of both the systems proposed so far and they also steer people away from certain reviews or could be used to inaccurately feed points.

The problem is never the "good" uses, it's always the abuse that prevents things from materializing.

So many good ideas, thank you.  One frustration I have felt with this site is—as in the real world and other sites I’ve used—some don’t reciprocate when they receive a review.  Alas, human nature.  That’s why I wanted to offer additional points.  I guess I will get hard-nosed.  If I review someone’s posts  twice and there’s no reciprocity, I will ignore their posts until there is—and i’ll Label them privately some term in the swine category!