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alliyah says...



IT'S TIME FOR REVMO TWENTY TWENTY FOUR
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We've reached a beloved month on YWS, September - the month where we celebrate all things reviewing with Review Month. Reviewing is part of the magic that keeps YWS going, providing valuable feedback for authors and exercising our literary and editing skills. That's why on YWS we have a full month dedicated to celebrating reviewing with fun challenges, contests, hashtags, and of course the username color challenge!

Different Review Activities and Hashtags will be posted here throughout the month by mods, so be sure to subscribe to this thread!

This year for our collective Sitewide Review Challenge we want to push ourselves to reach 750 reviews as a site! In order to reach that goal, we'll certainly need all hands on deck! An additional goal is to finish off our Summer Challenge and Clear out the Green Room to find the final baby golden goose!

We also have some super fun individual challenges to partake in - including aiming for a grand total of 50 Reviews during the month of September, but there are all different levels to participate! Participation at different levels will earn you a shiny new (temporary) username color! Here's how it works: each week you have a chance to meet the review challenge to earn a different fab username color (i.e. if you write 10 by Sept 7 you earn a temporary dark turquoise username!)

Outside of our first week we wanted to keep things with a fun Olympics theme this year - so your winning colors are bronze, silver, and gold! Hurray! And every week when the deadline passes you have another opportunity to earn the cool colors - so if you miss the first deadline don't worry, you can still earn those other username colors at anytime during the month. (i.e. 10 reviews by Sept 21 will still earn you a dark turquoise username for a week!) Here's a breakdown of the other challenges:

Color Check-In Challenges


these are automatically adjusted to your time zone


Week One Goal: 10 reviews - first deadline
Reward: dark turquoise

Week Two Goal: 20 reviews - first deadline
Reward: bronze

Week Three Goal: 35 reviews - first deadline
Reward: silver

Week Four Victor's Goal: 50 reviews - deadline
Reward: victory gold for the first 2 weeks of October.

Team Tortoise: dark cyan for the first 2 weeks of October for those who complete Team Tortoise (one review every day of the month).

If you complete any of the above challenges you'll also win a wonderful limited edition RevMo Badge!

Other REVMO activities



Additionally stay tuned for upcoming information on a "Reviewing 103" workshop, a series of "Golden Goose Clues" and a few other contests running throughout September!

Please note, we want this to be a positive experience for all, so reviews must be non-spam (reviews that are plagiarized, copy-pasted, AI, or spam will be removed from the site and may disqualify you from the prizes and contests).
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Thu Sep 05, 2024 1:20 am
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looseleaf says...



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It's time for the 2024 RevMo Checklist Challenge ! Hop on over to the thread and start your checklist!




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alliyah says...



RevMo wrote:Next color check-in is ... TOMORROW! Who is excited? What are your goals? Can we expect any last minute sprints to get to 10 or 20 reviews? Remember if you have 10 reviews by tomorrow (11 PM EST) you'll earn yourself a beautiful dark turquoise temporary username ~ lots of fun activities to participate, lots of great works to review! Let's go! :D

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AkiraEliza says...



so all the colors only last a week or two? or am I reading wrong? (I broke my glasses)
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alliyah says...



@AkiraEliza I believe how we've done it in the past is all will change back to normal during first week of October (maybe a few days in!) Those who earn Gold & Dark Cyan last 2 weeks into October.
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AkiraEliza says...



oh, okay. now I get it. thanks!
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alliyah wrote:

RevMo Results



Congratulations to everyone for an absolutely successful and wonderful Review Month! There was so much quality reviewing in September - and believe me, it made a difference! Users had fun tackling challenges like the "In Depth Poetry Review Event," the Checklist Challenge, the Color Challenge, Team Tortoise, and even an end of month Autumn Themed Review Day!

Our sitewide goal for September was 750 reviews, and though we didn't quite make it, we were very close at 710 total reviews for the month! 2 members managed to earn victory gold, 2 managed to finish Team Tortoise, and altogether we had 86 users participating in Review Month by writing at least one review during the month!

Thank you for participating and wonderful job!

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