Anyone NOT writing reviews during Review Amnesty Week

I will if I have extra time, but it isn't looking like I'll get any damn peace in my house this week. I will just get them published when I get the time, no rush. It's not like you gain THAT much from doing it. If I did the reviews for points alone, there's no way I'd write and include as much as I do. It's just like 50 points and I guess 100 if it's double points? I don't know. PLus, I have a student who's getting extremely harsh with me about publishing a hundred dang reviews each minute for her double points. She's already advanced so it's not like I'm even getting whatever points you get for students. Still, I feel extremely overwhelmed this week by that and the so little peace in my house. I don't know that I can even keep up with this student's 6-10 reviews everyday through this double point thing and she is getting angry when I don't publish right away so I don't see me getting any time for my own reviews this week. However, my assignment will be coming up at the end of this week and I don't care how badly someone else is desperate to publish, my assignment won't be put off just because of that. I usually do really good, but I get irritated when I'm being pushed every hour. less

There are currently 13 reviews that need to be edited in the Task Market.


Oh, I checked the ones that I edited this morning before 10:00 AM...two of them have not had a single vote! I am sure they were off of page 6 on the community page within a few hours of being posted. less

I think that the Review Amnesty Week is a cool idea. Besides giving those with overdue assignments a bit of an extension, it gives the rest of us an incentive to clear out our assignment carts. Personally, I have so many purchases in there that would put me up to and over the milestone 100 reviews. While the double points is nice (as it always is), I have a feeling that I probably won't be writing any reviews this week (or very few) for a few reasons.

I've been offered my first two DR assignments and I also have a manufacturer sponsored one as well (though I haven't actually received the items yet, so there's no rush to write the reviews). As for the points - well, to be honest, being an editor this rotation quickly racks the points up, so I'm not hurting in that area.

But I think my biggest reason for not really wanting to write reviews this week is this - like the double points week back in February, there was such an avalanche of new reviews that it was hard to keep up with them, let alone read many of them. Personally, I like it when people actually read my reviews, and I hope they find them helpful. Rating and commenting is nice (but not entirely necessary), and I'd rather not write a review than have it get lost (and go unnoticed) in the masses of newly written reviews (and therefore not be really helpful to anyone).



So I'm interested in hearing everyone else's thoughts... are you joining in the review writing rush or are you stepping back for a bit? (Voting is private!) less