Hello, I was wondering if maybe someone could help with a sticky situation.

I truly enjoy the mentor program. However, I have run into a situation and it may cause me to leave the program.

I have ran into a student who is very happy with their review. However, it is lacking information. I send suggestions and they do not take my advice. I totally understand that everyone's writing style is different and their review should reflect their thoughts and feelings and not mine.

unfortantly, due to them not taking my advice, I am receiving many poor ratings for my editing job. This is very frustrating. I work hard on editing and helping others with their reviews. I spend a lot of time trying to help new comers. To be quite honest, it is time consuming and I often sacrifice my own reviews that need to be done to work on my student's reviews.

I have no idea how to address this type of issue. To be honest, I am considering leaving the mentor program due to this situation.

Has anyone else ran into this? How do you handle it? Any tips or hints of what I can do to make these type of situations better?

Am I correct in thinking that voting for the editor is suppose to be rating their ability to fix grammar errors regardless of the lack of useful information? I feel that it is unfair to expect a mentor to rewrite their review and add things that are needed. I think that is the job of the student. If we give hints and tips then the student does not accept it, is that really my fault?

Honestly, I want to leave the program now. I have worked very hard on my rank and if students not taking advice is risking my rank, I don't want to continue.

thank you so much for any advice.

HUGS lori less

i agree, i should have re read the review before i posted. this was totally my mistake.

Thankfully, with your help and me looking back over it, I have sent a message and as soon as they are able to the errors will be fixed.

i'm just being pulled too many ways this week, with the new grand baby, being so far from home, and just life... i truly messed this one up.

i wish i could delete my post. Now that it is out there for the whole community to see, I feel like a fool.

I do wish that when I first noticed the down rating and messaged a contributor about the situation, that they would have gotten back to me rather then ignoring my message. However, me as a mentor should have done a lot better job on this one.

I am sorry for wasting the communities time.

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