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How can we spice up Review Day?

Nate · 2015-04-27T02:13:21Z

It used to be that Review Days regularly hit in the 600s, and often in the 700s. However, I feel like the last several Review Days have been rather mundane, and the last two haven't had enough activity to clean out the Green Room either. This has actually happened a couple times in the past. Review Days / Weekends go back to 2008, though they weren't always monthly. Inevitably, it gets a bit stale and we need to change things up to make it more interesting. Off the top of my head, here are a few ideas to add some pep back to Review Day: - Ban the losing team from YWS - Institute mandatory floggings until review numbers go up - Give out $5 for every 50 words ;) Real ideas: - Create your own teams. There'd have to be a minimum number of people (maybe 10?), but the winning team would be decided upon a mix of number of reviews and the average number of points per review. New members (those who've joined in the previous month) would all be included in their own team with a couple JMs as their captains. - Go back to four teams instead of just two. - More themes. We do this every now and then, but not a lot. The last big theme we did was the Poke-Review Day in July 2014, and that went well. - Increase the number of points you can earn on Review Day (once upon a time, you could earn twice as much on Review Days) - Get rid of it altogether. When we first started it, there were a ton of works that went without at least 2 reviews (hundreds per month). Nowadays, that's just not a problem anymore. - Change up the site's colors just for Review Day. - Just keep on truckin' and change nuthin'. It may well be that the current state of affairs is perfectly okay. These are all just some ideas. Feel free to add your own and/or comment on any of the above.

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Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:47 pm

XxXTheSwordsmanXxX says... · Thu Apr 07, 2016 4:47 pm

@Sarah12
With giving the winning team 200 free points each you are already basically giving everyone a free story post. The double points for reviews on review day would get a good draw.

Another idea would be some volunteer work. For example, if we have any artists, perhaps a free cover design for the most review points of the day.

We could also do something like the spotlight. There was a site that has closed down that would periodically do a sort of interview of a writer with some generic questions. Things like, "What made you start writing?", "What was your favorite book growing up?", "If given the chance would you become a published author?" Sort of get to know the writers with an announced piece about themselves. This could be a prize to the reviewer with the most points as well.

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