Review Submitted....for months! Pissed off!!

There are a few responses up to this issue already - Charmedtomeetyou has two great ones right on the front page of Eden here and here.

It may also make you feel a bit better to know that your timeline may be a bit off - your reviews haven't even been in the system for one month, let alone multiple. As well as this, the review regulations suggest that the norm is one to two weeks (not three to five days) when there is no backlog. less

I'd be super interested to know where you read 3-5 days, as I linked you to where the website clearly states that the general time frame is one to two weeks. =)

I assure you that that there was no assumption that everyone knows what I do, which is why I added the links. less

I'm just telling you exactly what I read on here, so might want to tell who ever the big boss is to change what is on the actual website instead of just making assumptions that everybody knows everything that you do. Get your head out of your ass. less

Just so you know, editors are not employees. We do not actually even get paid. We get POINTS, which we can use in the same way as you can use the ones you got for making this thread. This being said, the hour or so that editing takes is basically volunteer work. Editors are people with lives and jobs, so we edit when we can. There are many reviewers and not that many active editors. less

I have gotten several like that as an editor and even found some like that that other former editors published, apparently not doing a plagiarism scan, as they should have. I know a former editor who told me he used to pick three random sentences from a review and run them on Google as his plagiarism scan! As you know, SYN, I scan every single word and recommend others do, too, since sometimes they even copy the summary. And as Rossie has seen in an edit of hers a while back, even reviews full of many spelling errors (and generally poorly written) can have plagiarized content! You just never know, even if the person has never done it before. I have had several returning, formerly very good reviewers, suddenly submit fully copied reviews from other websites! I guess they thought now they'd get away with it? less

I'm not quite sure. A bit of both?

Every time that I try to click "proofread" it redirects me to my own list of reviews rather than to the text of her review. Only her Ida one does this - the rest of the reviews in the queue I've encountered so far are fine. less

Both her reviews do this for myself and some other editors as well. I checked them as soon as she complained (I wanted to see how good a job she did on them since I had bothered to count down their places on the list for her). Now, I will tell you that a long time ago I remember scanning both her reviews for plagiarism (as I used to do for ALL the ones as they came in on the review list - however, I now only spot check down the list once and a while out of curiosity, but of course I always scan the ones I edit. ) Anyway, I remember scanning both hers because I saw they were for expensive Lelo items and I was curious about what she thought and if they'd be copied at all as I find many of the high end ones like Lelo tend to have many reviews elsewhere that people "borrow" from. I remember both of hers cleared an were original and they looked at a cursory glance to be written well enough (definitely not one of those extended format reviews with just a sentence or two in each section).

So, something happened between then and now, I don't know what, but I suspect that the admin she contacted MAY have, in their ignorance with the glitches with the system, sent the reviews into a black hole by using one of the buttons to send it somewhere -- but those have never worked according to what Stormy told me and that's why we have to contact Ilya to ask if he'll return a review to the writer for us. Anyway, I have seen this happen once, maybe twice since I started editing and back when I reported it to Stormy, she removed it from the market, but I was never told what happened, or if she was able to fix it, but I seem to remember she couldn't fix it. This is why I recommend everyone keep a copy of their review before submitting it! less

I submitted 2 reviews over a month ago and they have not been touched. I contact surreptitious and asked for help. I also did the mentor class and did reviews also to help myself. I have contacted EF and have not gotten a response and my first 2 support tickets were put in on 3/12/14 and to this day have not received anything back. I understand the frustration by far but read the rules and everything before getting on here and running your mouth. Everyone on here has their own life and not online every minute or every day. less

Both her reviews do this for myself and some other editors as well. I checked them as soon as she complained (I wanted to see how good a job she did on them since I had bothered to count down their places on the list for her). Now, I will tell you that a long time ago I remember scanning both her reviews for plagiarism (as I used to do for ALL the ones as they came in on the review list - however, I now only spot check down the list once and a while out of curiosity, but of course I always scan the ones I edit. ) Anyway, I remember scanning both hers because I saw they were for expensive Lelo items and I was curious about what she thought and if they'd be copied at all as I find many of the high end ones like Lelo tend to have many reviews elsewhere that people "borrow" from. I remember both of hers cleared an were original and they looked at a cursory glance to be written well enough (definitely not one of those extended format reviews with just a sentence or two in each section).

So, something happened between then and now, I don't know what, but I suspect that the admin she contacted MAY have, in their ignorance with the glitches with the system, sent the reviews into a black hole by using one of the buttons to send it somewhere -- but those have never worked according to what Stormy told me and that's why we have to contact Ilya to ask if he'll return a review to the writer for us. Anyway, I have seen this happen once, maybe twice since I started editing and back when I reported it to Stormy, she removed it from the market, but I was never told what happened, or if she was able to fix it, but I seem to remember she couldn't fix it. This is why I recommend everyone keep a copy of their review before submitting it! less

I submitted 2 reviews over a month ago and they have not been touched. I contact surreptitious and asked for help. I also did the mentor class and did reviews also to help myself. I have contacted EF and have not gotten a response and my first 2 support tickets were put in on 3/12/14 and to this day have not received anything back. I understand the frustration by far but read the rules and everything before getting on here and running your mouth. Everyone on here has their own life and not online every minute or every day. less

I wasn't attempting to make any sort of point....just sayin'. It was way way back in the day.

I am with you on the review...it seems to be gone, which is also a minor point right now, as it was a plagiarized review.

Agreement all around from me. less

It's okay if the review disappeared because not only do I have a copy, but she plagiarized two others, so there is plenty of evidence without this particular review needing to be there to prove it. But I wonder now why we see our review pages when trying to access this other woman's reviews? I thought maybe that would be the answer, but it's obviously not it. All I can think of is that an admin did something to it and it didn't go as expected?

I know you were just correcting us and not making a particular point, but I am grateful nonetheless. Man, I sure am tempted to send all the plagiarized reviews to the admin via that button, lol! But the best I can do now if they refuse to remove them when they are reported to them, is to let other editors know not to edit any future review by these people should they submit more. I'll try, but keeping track will be entirely too much work for an unpaid position with no support to speak of!

Thanks for the all around agreement less

Yup, task # 41285 is definitely gone from the task market.

About the redirected to our own review page question: I think the admins purposely programmed it to do that. So whenever you click on a deleted link (e.g., reviews and threads), you'll be redirected to your own review page. less