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Hi everyone, with all the fun reviewing events happening right now this is a important message from your moderator team:

Do not use AI writing tools to generate the majority of your review. While these tools can be fun to experiment with for your own work and can even aid writers as a tool in generating creating prompts and ideas, representing these types of AI generated writing as your own is unfair to other reviewers and unfair to the authors who are hoping for human (or maybe goose?) feedback.

As a writing website, YWS exists to promote creative writing and the sharing of writing feedback between writers, representing AI generated writing as your own undermines those things, so it is important that we take this issue seriously. AI writing can be hard to spot, so we are relying on you as fellow writers and community members to act with honesty in representing your work and your reviews.

If a user is found to be using AI reviews those will be treated as both spam and plagiarism, the review may be removed along with the points earned from them, and the user may be banned from the site. Please reach out to a moderator if you have any questions or suspect that you have received an AI generated review.

Good luck reviewing this month, YWS!

Some great events lined up for the site - beginning June 1! Let's clear that Green Room!

alliyah wrote:Quick reminder that we have two amazing Summer Reviewing Opportunities starting tomorrow (June 1)!

The Great Tortoise Race begins tomorrow where you are encouraged to write 1 review every day of the month, and if you do so, you even get an awesome badge and join the Team Tortoise Victors Roster.

We also are beginning our Search for the Golden Goose | Clear the Green Room Challenge that runs until August 1. If we are victorious in clearing the Green Room this summer we'll unlock a Social Week and 3 days of free lit work posting! I don't think the Green Room has been cleared for several years, and will certainly take all hands on deck to accomplish - but with some of the all star reviewers I think we may be able to pull it off! Also if you'd like to join a Team to make that challenge even more fun, you can sign up Right Here.

It's going to be an awesome Summer!

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We've received some reports that some of the staff forums have been accidentally moved to the incorrect forums with all of the chaos today.

Although the forum threads are publicly available, please do not interact with them in any way, shape, or form, as this is classified information.

We repeat, please DO not interact with the public mod forum.

BB suggests everyone do as the wise corgi, back away and do not interact...

People, creatures, and otherly beings,

There has been some slight forum and people tab glitches this morning as things have gotten moved for NaPo getting started, please report in the Report Classified Concerns thread if you notice anything of yours that appears out of the oridinary.

-BB

*pokes*

Hi all! This is a reminder from your BB Team that if you ever believe any user is behaving inappropriately towards you or someone else, or causes you to feel uncomfortable, you are encouraged to report such behavior using the Contact Mods button or by sending a message to a moderator.

In the interest of member privacy and fairness, we do not publicly discuss details of reports made. We want users to feel safe knowing that any details of a report they make are private and will not be shared outside of moderator forums. Whenever reports are made, they are taken very seriously by the moderating team, and are always investigated thoroughly prior to action being taken. Sometimes this process can take several days to gather and review all relevant information. Thank you for your patience in these situations. All YWS users, without exception and including all moderators, are always subject to the YWS Site Rules which can be found here.

If you have specific questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out via PM to the Big Brother account, use the Contact Mods button at the top of the page, or refer to How to Report: threads, trolls, members, spam etc. We're here to help.

YWS BB Team

You heard it here first, folks! The Mold Gets Moldier...

AKA NEW GMS IN DA HOUSE! Go give 'em a hearty welcome <3

Happy Social Month Review Day everyone!

With your help, we did 90 reviews and made a respectable dent in the Green Room (though there are still plenty of works that could use some rescuing if you still have any review steam left <3)! Check out the February 2023 Review Day Review for the full stats and give an extra special congrats to KateHardy and Thediffident for being the top two reviewers and earning YWS Swag! Y'all did great! <3

A gift on behalf of the chicken fan club to you, Big Bro! It’s a chicken chew toy, to promote our agenda of chickens

Thank you so much everyone for your help, I am happy to be back in doggo form! Your reviewing is so appreciated and it looks like our Green Room is much safer from the Wizard than before with all that reviewing force! Full Review Day Results & Stats Right Here

Liminality wrote:

Liminality wrote:

The works are reviewed,
the Green Room hath shrunk,
and back to his lair
the wizard hath sunk.

While he is aghast,
the people delight:
they dance in the streets
from dawn to the night.

It was a close match! The winning team who scored the most points, the Clever Elves, poured a magic potion over Big Brother's head and turned the frog back into a dog. But both the Book Wyrms and the Clever Elves' efforts weakened the evil wizard enough to send him scurrying away. All is well again in the Kingdom of Yewis.

The Book Wyrms wrote 52 reviews and earned 5675 points. The Clever Elves wrote 44 reviews and earned 5790 points. With our combined efforts, 96 reviews were written. Fabulous work everybody!

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Hi YWS! Review Day has officially begun! Thank you to everyone who is reviewing and helping me hopefully hop out of this frog-curse - I very much appreciate it. Best of luck in your reviews!

And be sure to check out #ReviewTips & #MagicalReviewElements if you need a little help getting into reviewing - there's some great advice being shared there.

Hey Big Brother, sorry to hear about your recent predicament! I hope all is brought back to how it's supposed to be soon!

sincerely,

alliyah

Congratulations to everyone especially all our winners, honorable mentions, and nominees for the Most and Best Awards this year! YWS is absolutely filled with talented, creative, and wonderful personalities - thank you for being part of our 2022!

Thank you to those who voted and especially to @lliyah @looseleaf & @Spearmint for compiling the results this year!

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