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SarahCarer

Today was judgement day, I had most of my articles rated and I'm still a 4, so that's good. I wish the comments had been more about my style, or the content rather than apostrophes and commas etc. That would have been useful, I know I'm crap at grammar... Lol. But I suppose they have so many to rate.

googler

SarahCarer wrote: »

Today was judgement day, I had most of my articles rated and I'm still a 4, so that's good. I wish the comments had been more about my style, or the content rather than apostrophes and commas etc. That would have been useful, I know I'm crap at grammar... Lol. But I suppose they have so many to rate.

I got around 25 rated the other day. Amongst my grammatical corrections/suggestions were commas added where I hadn't placed them, commas deleted where they thought them redundant, a semicolon replaced with a colon (or vice versa, I can't recall which ...), and a couple of other issues.

Corrections/suggestions were in five articles or so, but they're still rated 4*; comments like 'great', 'good work' on two or three, but they're still rated 4*; and no corrections or comments on the remainder - which were all still rated 4* ...

(Side query to sort the grammar men from the boys: am I making correct use of the colon/semicolon here?)



Sooooo ... if there's nothing adverse to report, and no corrections, then what are they looking for for a 5 star article?

CWSmith

TB seem to be a bit obsessive about commas .......... and I'd have liked to have argued with them over a couple of mine!

Other than that, I've got 4* for all of them, but only a "well done" on one of them. Strangely enough, it was (what I thought) was the worst article of the lot - the one I rushed through. I've had no other comments at all.

Only done 10 so far though.

cazmanian_minx

I had my first 5 rated today, so my account is unlocked again - the only correction I got was them wanting 'telltale' instead of 'tell-tale', the rest just had 'Well done' against them.

Googler - to become 5* I think you have to pass the proofreading test as well.

googler

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

Googler - to become 5* I think you have to pass the proofreading test as well.

Yes, but they rated all of mine as 4* - with or without the PR test, I would have thought that I'd need at least some to be rated at 5* in order to progress to that level... unless you suggest that with all 4* articles, the PR test instantly uprates one to 5* ...?

CWSmith

This is what it says on TB homepage about level 5*:

Level 5:
Continuous excellent articles at the highest stage. Professional body and style. Level 5 authors are exclusively hand selected by us and chosen from the very best level 4 authors.

It doesn't even mention the proofreading bit.

amyloofoo

I am not a fan of the proofreading test *sigh*

Edit: It's also not fond of me.

googler

CWSmith wrote: »

This is what it says on TB homepage about level 5*:

Level 5:
Continuous excellent articles at the highest stage. Professional body and style. Level 5 authors are exclusively hand selected by us and chosen from the very best level 4 authors.

Which still doesn't give any indication of what they're actually looking for - if a 4* article attracts no adverse comment or grammar correction when reviewed, why isn't it a 5* ?

cazmanian_minx

googler wrote: »

Yes, but they rated all of mine as 4* - with or without the PR test, I would have thought that I'd need at least some to be rated at 5* in order to progress to that level... unless you suggest that with all 4* articles, the PR test instantly uprates one to 5* ...?

No, I just remembered sommer43 saying that she had to pass the proofreading test before she could become a 5*

cte1111

My articles were rated today, 50+ were 4 star and just 1 3 star (used same word twice in one sentence). I've passed the proof reading test too, but haven't been put up to 5 star.

I might contact them at some point and ask if they would consider putting me up to 5 stars. I haven't written much recently, I go through fits and starts with it, either 10 in 2 days or none for weeks.

They probably also look at other criteria, e.g. how many revisions you get, how often you write, perhaps whether you get direct orders or do well on team orders? This is just a guess BTW, not inside information.