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Hi, Sol—
I keep imagining you scurrying around, trying to fix everything for everyone.  It’s impossible.  Sit back, chill out, have a margarita!  I’ll give you my thoughts while you relax.
1.    GOOD IDEA.  I like the idea of only paying once.  I can’t afford the hundreds it costs to repost in another group.  The purpose of posting in a group is so like-minded people can critique each other’s work.
2.     BAD IDEA.  And here’s why: when I joined, I had no idea how to give a review.  If I had tried, it would have been a waste of time for me and any author whose works I reviewed.  I posted my first story, and waited to hear what people said.  Those first points are not only a kindness, they’re a teaching tool for newbies.
3.    BAD IDEA.  Why complicate further something that is already a can of worms, nest of snakes, etc.?  Is everybody so immature they can’t wait to see how things work themselves out?  Let people learn to live with things before making any more changes.  We’ve only been at the new site two months.  Simplify, simplify!
You asked for my thoughts.  Have another drink—I’m sure there’s more to come.
JP

Hey, Jack--When are you going to post the answers?  I tried, but I couldn't answer these questions.  I don't see that many movies and besides, my memory's shot--help!  JP

Nope--answers haven't been posted--at least a week, to let everybody have a chance with them.  You can post yours, if you like, and I'll use them to fill in the chart in the QUIZ thread.  Nobody got the whole answers to anything, yet--seems like a lot of folks were getting ready for publication.  JP

Guess what just happened to me! I wanted to enter my story for SS, but I had started posting in Cop Shop.  I figured It would cost all my reserves, but it cost me nothing to switch my story to Premium.  I don't know if this was just for the contest, or if it only goes one way (because I do remember facing those charges before and leaving thing as they were).  Anyway if our complaints caused a change in policy, I'm all for Allen's suggestion that we post for our group.  We can also post in more than one group, and I think that was a change, too, so we could post in Premium, as well as Cop Shop and Thriller, too.   we just need to ask Sol to change Cop Shop to no points, right?  JP

We should get together.  Between us, we might make a complete individual.  I have attacks of guilt if I haven't thrown everything out that hasn't been used in a year.  From time to time I go through closets and throw everything away.  That's how I lost my high school and college yearbooks, my wedding dresses (both of them, at different times, of course) and all my children's baby clothes.  Well, you can't take it with you.  JP

Let me get this straight.  This exchange began with a lament over no reward for a thoughtful review.  The discussion took a turn into how to identify a non-paying item, and then morphed into a complicated exchange over the basic question: Free membership versus Premium membership. 
I'm a premium member because that's how I started on the old site.  Something for nothing?  Bad policy, IMO.

I just checked.  Right next to the story title and picture it says "Groups." and beneath that, Premium or Free (or both) plus whatever other groups they belong to.  We just have to get in the habit of checking.  And don't look at the red button that says "no points," since a premium member can post for no points, if they want.  IN CONCLUSION--no problem.  It's already been taken care of.  Thanks, Sol.  JP

A second CSI team had now taken over the other end of the alley, where Luz Apagada’s body lay silent, unable to pass on any more information.  Ledbetter should have stayed, but they would have taken his weapon, standard procedure in an officer-involved shooting.  And he wasn’t finished yet.
He had returned to apartment 810, where this craziness started, Luz’s place.  Remembering there was supposed to be a brother in the mix, he turned the knob with extreme caution.  The door swung open without a sound, and Ledbetter took his time easing his way in.
The man on the sofa was a big guy, probably 250 pounds, at least.  His musclebound arms were folded on his knees, his head was down and his shoulders shook.  He was sobbing his heart out, like a little kid.
“Who are you?”  Ledbetter challenged.
The “man” lifted his tear-stained face.  He was all of seventeen.  “I’m Blais Apagada.  I saw what you did.”

That's all I could come up with, for now. JP

That does hurt.  But maybe some authors feel that just reviewing anyone else's work is reciprocation.  I don't want to feel like we have to go back and forth, else how will we get new input?
There's also this: I read, but don't review fantasy, sci fi, poetry or YA (usually), because I'm so out of touch with those genres I wouldn't know what to say.  JP

Here's my suggestion:  Let's do the Chinese menu--take one point from each menu (mine and Amy's), and answer it, until we've got the whole thing solved.  Two points per installment, one from menu A, one from menu B.  How does that sound?  Janet, are there any more questions we need to answer?  JP