Two changes:
- Cost to post a new work is now 200, reduced from 350
- Automatic 25 point bonus for reviewing Green Room works
Cost post is now 200
Posting a new work hasn't been this low since early 2013! This is being done out of a belief that the 350 point cost was actually deterring people from reviewing. It could've been reduced to 250, but decided to go one step further because of the second change, which is...
Automatic 25 point bonus for reviewing Green Room works
In the past, you earned double points for every character past the initial 250 for a GR review. So, 250 characters netted you 25 points, just like it does normally. But 500 characters would net you 75 points (normally, it would be 50 points). This was true up to a maximum of 150 points, and it was increased further for GR works older than 3 days (175 max in that case).
I think this confused a lot of people, and confusion isn't a good thing when it comes to incentives. So from now on, it's an automatic 25 point bonus for reviewing GR works. That means that while the maximum is now 125, the minimum is 50 (up from 25).
Plus, even though the maximum is lower, so is the cost to post a new work.
Special Note
Going forward, the points may be tweaked further. YWS has been going through a bit of a reviewing dry spell for several months now, and it's hope that the tweaks listed above will help get us out of this dry spell, along with other measures like NaRevWriMo. If these tweaks prove insufficient, though, expect the possibility of bigger changes to come. Of course, any major change will be thoroughly discussed first with the community at large.
Gender:
Points: 11417
Reviews: 425