This group's primary purpose is honest peer reviews by genre. We cannot be honest with each other, if we are subjected to retaliation in any form. Therefore, any group participant that either posts a revenge rating or has a revenge rating posted for them by a proxy, will be removed from the Genre Specific Review Groups.
Key signs of a revenge rating are (but are not limited to):
1) Rating is published after the original review was published on Goodreads 2) Rating is not accompanied by a cogent text review 3) Rating is made by the author of the work originally reviewed, by a Goodreads friend of that author, or any form of proxy 4) Rating is 3 or lower
If a rating meets all or most of these criterions, and a moderator considers that it qualifies as a revenge rating, the member will be contacted to allow him or her to have the rating retracted or to make a case that it was not a revenge rating.
If you have participated in a peer review group and feel that you received a revenge rating, please contact the moderator for that group. The moderator will investigate.
Since this can be a very subjective issue, moderators will not treat an incident lightly or precipitously.
This group's primary purpose is honest peer reviews by genre. We cannot be honest with each other, if we are subjected to retaliation in any form. Therefore, any group participant that either posts a revenge rating or has a revenge rating posted for them by a proxy, will be removed from the Genre Specific Review Groups.
Key signs of a revenge rating are (but are not limited to):
1) Rating is published after the original review was published on Goodreads
2) Rating is not accompanied by a cogent text review
3) Rating is made by the author of the work originally reviewed, by a Goodreads friend of that author, or any form of proxy
4) Rating is 3 or lower
If a rating meets all or most of these criterions, and a moderator considers that it qualifies as a revenge rating, the member will be contacted to allow him or her to have the rating retracted or to make a case that it was not a revenge rating.
If you have participated in a peer review group and feel that you received a revenge rating, please contact the moderator for that group. The moderator will investigate.
Since this can be a very subjective issue, moderators will not treat an incident lightly or precipitously.