Your comments might not be long enough! Points are only awarded if you go over a certain amount of characters— without spamming (just putting in extra bits of the review that don't have a point, making nonsensical reviews, using a ton of stretched words/punctuation), as the mods will shorten your review and reset your points — in your comments.
We do this because YWS encourages longer, more content-based reviews. The way I look at a review is to ask "why does this work make me feel this way?" The why is critical, because it's where you give the constructive feedback for the actual story. The benefits are twofold: the reviewee wins because they find out exactly what they're doing wrong or right, and the reviewer wins because they start to figure out what they enjoy in their own stories. So you subconsciously start improving your own writing.
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The different maximums are because works with 0 and 1 reviews have a mark up on the number of points you can earn. Works with 0 gain you 50% more points, while works with 1 gain you 25% more points.
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A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo
Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle ... anyone can get angry—that is easy—or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble. — Aristotle
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