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The July 31st Day of Review! (GMT)



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Fri Jul 29, 2011 5:49 am
Nate says...



July 2011 has thus far been a great month for reviewing. If it weren't for the database failures earlier this month, we probably would be well over 4,000+ reviews by now and Review Day would lead us to over 5,000+ reviews for the first time ever. As it is, we're already at 3,820 reviews and we'll begin Review Day with over 4,000.

So what is a Review Day? On the last Sunday of every month, YWS holds a reviewing day. This means:
  • No new literary works can be submitted (you can wait 24 hours!)
  • The Featured Works block on the front page is changed to a Last 5 Reviews block
  • You can earn up to 100 points per review instead of the normal 50 (extra points for works with 0/1 review)

This will be the first Review Day since March with no review teams. I just want to see how we do without them since I'm still not sure whether they help or hurt.

Now, because the Earth is round and it tends to spin, not everyone has Sunday at the same time. So we're going to go by Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) and declare 12:01 am GMT to 11:59 pm GMT as the YWS Review Day. Some international times for that are below:

United Kingdom: 1:01 am (Sunday) to 12:59 am (Monday)

United States & Canada
Atlantic: 9:01 pm (Saturday) to 8:59 pm (Sunday)
Eastern: 8:01 pm (Saturday) to 7:59 pm (Sunday)
Central: 7:01 pm (Saturday) to 6:59 pm (Sunday)
Western: 6:01 pm (Saturday) to 5:59 pm (Sunday)
Pacific: 5:01 pm (Saturday) to 4:59 pm (Sunday)

New Zealand: 12:01 pm (Sunday) to 11:59 am (Monday)

Australia
Eastern: 10:01 am (Sunday) to 9:59 am (Monday)
Central: 9:31 am (Sunday) to 9:29 am (Monday)
Western: 8:01 am (Sunday) to 7:59 am (Monday)

India: 5:31 (am) Sunday to 5:29 am (Monday)


Lets make the goal 700 reviews this time. Although, I may increase that to 1,000 depending on how the first few hours of it go.
  





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Fri Jul 29, 2011 11:15 am
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I totally love how India's got its own time block there. xD

JK. Let's make this Review Day rule!
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:59 pm
zephion says...



No teams this time?
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:14 pm
ultraviolet says...



zephion wrote:No teams this time?


That's what I was wondering.
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:22 pm
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ultraviolet wrote:
zephion wrote:No teams this time?


That's what I was wondering.


Riveting, no? ;)
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:33 pm
Lava says...



Oh yes! I can join in!
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 2:51 pm
LookUpThere says...



It's probably going to be snowing outside (and that isn't common here!) so yeah, it's not that hot but I'm in(side)!
  





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Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:07 pm
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Fri Jul 29, 2011 9:01 pm
Abigail_W. says...



What were review teams? I had a YWS hiatus and missed that ...
  





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Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:43 am
KingLucifer says...



Skins wrote:
ultraviolet wrote:
zephion wrote:No teams this time?


That's what I was wondering.


Riveting, no? ;)


Haha a Free for all!? I'm up and I almost always win haha let's see this go uP
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Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:21 pm
StellaThomas says...



I wish it was too hot to go outside. As it is, it is too cold to go outside, so I'll be reviewing anyway.
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