If your published review has typos or bad grammar, do you want to be told about it in the comments area?

I agree with this. I try to look past errors, grammar, and typo to get to the point of the review: the information and helpfulness. If I made any errors, then I would appreciate someone letting me know in a message. Though, I wouldn't be embarrassed if someone left a comment instead. I'm always grateful for help in improving my writing skills or ability to look out for mistakes.

Again, that's the Mentor's job. The editors don't get the same reviewers reviews every time. They are pulled off a list and there isn't time to go back and forth or the review would take a week or more to go live.

I know people need and want feedback. That's good to want it. But, the Mentor program is where you go for this.

And I have to echo what Adriana said, the "comment" section is for comments on the review so it is protocol to bring up things about the review in it's entirety in the comment section. Including syntax errors etc. It's not done to be mean, but for the entire community to help you learn better and better skills. I know I've learned more from "you may want to do this" or "There is an issue here" comments on my reviews in the beginning of my writing than generic "Good review! " comments.

I wouldn't bring up ONE spelling error in the comment section of a review, but if there are 4 or 5, then someone, either the writer or the editor should have caught them. We all have the ability to use a Spell Check, so spelling errors should be uncommon.

Your PMs are for personal contact, and everyone doesn't check them every day, and often the comments on your profile page is checked even less frequently. If you set your controls so that you get an email when someone comments on a review, you'll know to go there and read it right away.

SweetMary, the kind of input you are looking for is available from the Mentor program. It's a great program and I highly recommend it.

No confusion. Not at all. New reviewers learn from asking questions on the forum.

No problem at all. How else would you know, if you didn't ask?

It's all good, lori and hubby. Feel free to ask away. Please, ask the forum when you have a question at any time.

HUGS

By the way, you're writing is fine. Don't stress too much As you said, we're all only human and word processors are only as good as the person using them in most cases.

I agree that the comments section is for comments and not editing. It's too bad your review suffered from a bad comment, that is not the way Eden was meant to be I am sure. I have read your reviews, I think their good. I would not mark anyone down for simple grammar and spelling. Only if it was totally incomprehensible. I'll focus more in the information given. I also do not let other comments affect my own personal rating, that does not seem fair to me. However, that kind of thing cannot be monitored obviously, it is personal judgement.

It is obvious you're working hard to improve your reviews, keep up the good work and to worry too much. Eden is supposed to be fun after all

No. I would hope the person would have the decency and respect to do it via private message! If there are some grammar errors and people point them out in the comments section, it looks rude to me. I've only seen it a few times. Once I had spelled something wrong in a review and turned out to be kind of funny the way I had spelled it, but Sktb2000 contacted me PRIVATELY to let me know and I was really glad and to me, that's something friends do. If she hadn't have contacted me, I would've missed the error. She was nice enough to do it privately and not publicly and I appreciated that most of all.

If the review can't be edited any longer then chances are the person did catch the error but was too late to fix it. Now when it comes to tiny mistakes, no, I don't think it's OK to point out every little mistake to a stranger because it's rude. If you can point out things in a friendly manner and are just letting them know a few things they could improve, sure, leave a comment. Comments are for leaving feedback and asking questions, but grammar mistakes should be private. I don't know why, but it seems a lot nicer. A lot of people aren't TRYING to make the small mispellings and it would more than likely come off as asshole-ish if you just commented "you spelled something wrong." Better to leave a NICE private message for those errors.

Blushing, thank you so much for your words of encouragment. I"m so glad you like my reviews. I enjoy wrighting them so very very much.

Not a problem. I hope I wasn't harsh. It's just not how the system works.

With that said, many mentors focus on the content and not grammar or spelling at all.

How is it rude to comment on a review in the comments section of a review? I don't understand this at all.

I think that it should be up to the editor to fix these mistakes. Ive seen a slew of them too that have been just so awful with their grammar that I couldn't understand what the reviewer was even trying to say.

I think that the amount of information/how it was written is how you should vote. If you can't read/understand it....then it gets voted down.

This is true.