How are you increasing your reviewer's score?

[Verity Keber]

Is anybody able to talk me through how to post reviews on Facebok to increase my score? I go to the review and follow the social media tab, but when I search onlinebookclub.org as a group nothing comes up. I have found the group on Facebook but can't see any way to 'join' as such so that it saves as a group.

[Stephanie Mounce]

I know that Scott rarely answers the questions and that the answers that are given by some are canned responses. Now, he wants you to pay to be a subscriber to his facebook page to get answers from him. If you don't pay for the monthly subsscripttion he claims on that page he will respond in a week...

[Stephanie Mounce]

Is anybody able to talk me through how to post reviews on Facebook to increase my score? I go to the review and follow the social media tab, but when I search onlinebookclub.org as a group nothing comes up. I have found the group on Facebook but can't see any way to 'join' as such so that it saves as a group.

Copy your review URL and then you will want to go to the Facebook group :
https://www.facebook.com/groups/203876583599481
It should come up as OBC Reviewers Group (Facebook Chapter). Post your review link and then the other reviewers will comment on your review.
The idea they respond on your review and you respond on to theirs. It will increase your popularity score

[Kathryn Nicks 1]

Same thing I'm experiencing here. It is very difficult to move to the next level, even with good reviewer scores.

[Stephanie Mounce]

Participation is a big part of your score. If you get your reviewer score above 85% then you get bonus points for review quality, verify your phone number, have your user name and facebook name the same, post on BOTM forum, and do the daily BOTD will make your move to the next levels more quickly. Your overall score for reviews are for the past 30 reviews. If you don't have that many reviews done, then your average will be swayed by one lower scored review. If a review scores an 80%, it will increase your review average by 1 point. After I write my review, I use 2 grammar checks, then have the computer read my review back to me- which is where i catch most of my errors. I then use the zerogpt site so I can avoid false AI reports. If it highlights anything then I will revise my review in those spots. It does consistently highlight where I write "I rate this book x out of 5 stars." Doing those multiple checks(especially the read back) has improved my review scores. I have been getting several 100% scores. I wrote a post for writing notes to help reviewers make their reviews avoid the possibility of "skim reading" or sounding generic. I've always write notes for my reviews and have never been told that my reviews are generic. I know it seems discouraging as a new reviewer. I know I started with a -9 when I wrote my first review. When I started doing the BOTM and BOTD every day, it rose pretty quickly.

[Jessica Westergren Saade]

I am new here and I have no clue how this all works, which is quite frustrating. So far, I'm just doing the best I can to look into everything, but there is quite a lot to wrap your head around. Hearing you mention that it is difficult to get to a higher level doesn't sound promising.

[Jessica Westergren Saade]

It all seems very complicated, I must say. I have been off to a rocky start as well, so I'm only on level 0 still after 3 weeks, but I am doing the best I can, and I guess you learn as you go along. I am enjoying it so far anyway!

[Stephanie Mounce]

It all seems very complicated, I must say. I have been off to a rocky start as well, so I'm only on level 0 still after 3 weeks, but I am doing the best I can, and I guess you learn as you go along. I am enjoying it so far anyway!

Always write your review in a Word or Google Doc first.
Go to the Guidelines page after you have written your review for a book before you turn it in. Go down the list of Requirements and see if your review fits covers all of the requirements. When you proofread it, I found that grammarchecker.net/editor has an option to read the review back to you. I use Quillbot to catch errors, just watch out for the suggestions (those are generally premium options). After Quillbot I go to Onlinetextcorrection.com It will catch all spelling and punctuation errors. Then, I do the grammarchecker.net. I let it read the review back to me. My final check, I read the review from the bottom line and go up. By then, I am sure I don't have any errors. I then run the review through zerogpt.com to see if it highlights anything as AI. If it does, I will reword or replace that- though it is very rare that I have to do that. Then take your edited document and past it in the submission box.
Check to make sure it copied properly.
When reporting any errors- always put the page number, the entire sentence, and what the correction should be. Do the exact same with Profanity. Page number and the entire sentence. The score for sexual content- hand holding, kissing- that scores a 1. I generally keep a screenshot or page number where the explicit scene is because I have had a few times when an author said there was no explicit content and to solve the dispute OBC will want you provide a screenshot of the content.
For the private blurb- Write major spoilers there. Use what the end of the book shows or a major event that happens.

For popularity, once your review is published: There are buttons that appear that will take you to Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Click on them and it will automatically take you to the sites with a link to your review. A suggestion for Facebook- Copy your address bar on your review, then post it on the OBC Reviewers Group (Facebook Chapter). I know that María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda, Christina Stan, and I are active participants. We will comment on your review. The idea is to read each other's reviews and write a comment to raise your popularity score.

Do the BOTD daily. If your review scores an 80 it will increase your reviewer score. It will also give you 5 bonus points if you get 85. If you match your Facebook, Username on OBC, and paypal, that also adds points to your score.

I wrote a post for How to Take Notes for OBC Reviews if you need help on taking note.

I hope I helped you on how to increase your review score.

[Jessica Westergren Saade]

Thank you so much for that. I'll take a look at the grammar checkers you recommend. The one I use now is called Grammarly, but look into the other ones as well. I am sure I will get there with trial and error.

[Deepa dipti bhatt]

Hey can someone tell me, why some reviews get scorecard and get published very quickly in about a day or two but a few take 14 days to publish. I m confused.

[Diana Lowery]

Hey can someone tell me, why some reviews get scorecard and get published very quickly in about a day or two but a few take 14 days to publish. I m confused.

Sometimes, it is because the author takes a while to respond.

[Deepa dipti bhatt]

Hey can someone tell me, why some reviews get scorecard and get published very quickly in about a day or two but a few take 14 days to publish. I m confused.

Sometimes, it is because the author takes a while to respond.

Thank you for replying... Then it's fine. I thought my review was bad or something.

[Stephanie Mounce]

Hey can someone tell me, why some reviews get scorecard and get published very quickly in about a day or two but a few take 14 days to publish. I m confused.

Sometimes, it is because the author takes a while to respond.

Thank you for replying... Then it's fine. I thought my review was bad or something.

The only time you should worry about a review being bad is if it is Rejected. Rejected reviews happen when the review contains spoilers, seem generic (as though a reviewer could just change the title in the review and it could fit any book), or the PRQ is incorrect (which you can dispute).

Disputes are generally between you and the author, and are easy to resolve- so those don't mean they are bad either. Most of these are over the error list or the author claiming there was no profanity in the book. (I've had one say the f**k was not profanity- so if you noted it, and they dispute that, take a screen shot of the page it is on with the specific word highlighted),

If it says closed but counted as complete, itis still a good review, it just means the author didn't pay for the review to be published (they haven't released the book yet is a big cause of that. We may have received a draft that is prior to release and they are testing to see what response they get towards the book. That's why we can be honest about the score on the book). You still get paid (if it is a book with payment) and the scorecard is still part of your score.
If you receive a review back in your update page that means you have to opportunity to revise your review. The editor will have listed the errors- which you can fix, and what needs adjusted for the review to be rechecked and published. I take a screenshot of the scorecard and will use it to fix my review and fix the listed errors. That will raise your score significantly if you are asked to change something in your review.

Editors don't pick the books they review. They click a button and it provides a review for them to check. It seems to give editors a book they have read more often, so they have a good idea as to whether people enter false information.
They have to check for AI/Plagiarism on more than one checkersite (Zerogpt, Quillbot, or any number of sites) then read the review, make sure it meets the guidelines, check for spelling and grammar errors that are objective (example: grey and gray are both correct spellings and are not considered errors) and then give you an subjective score. When I edit a review, I will offer resources to the reviewer so they can improve future scores. I also will note what they did well on. Editors also must check the error list you provide, which is why we need the page number, and the exact sentence the error is located. That list is provided to the author as well. The PRQ is checked by someone higher up (I believe admins check the Profanity, Sexual content, and Religious content accuracy). For each review, it often would take me almost 45 minutes to do all of that. Editors are also subject to being dropped to level if they don't meet a quota of editing per week, missed a review that was flagged as AI written, scored a review poorly, or are rude to reviewers or other editors.

Keep in mind, that editors started at the same place you started. If you disagree with an error they mentioned, if you can support that you are correct, you can always ask for an editor recheck. I had one book where they author spelled the title in all lowercase letters and the editor scored me a 45 because of the spelling. I asked for the recheck, stating that book title was spelled in lower case on OBC and Amazon. They changed the score to a 100 since I could prove why I wrote in lower case.

[Lutz Barz]

The last paragraph. What a tedious waste of time bothering with lower or upper case initials. When I was an e-book publisher I had this motto: If its readable its publishable. And not one reader complained about the grammar.