I’ve had my review preferences set to receive review requests only from certain categories. A lot of them, such as short story, sci-fi, action, crime, horror, etc. I did this to specifically exclude shorter works such as poetry and flash fiction, and to exclude things I wouldn’t know what to do with. Yet my queue keeps filling up with these damnable 6-word autobiographies and with poetry. What gives? Not a comment on quality, but on numbers, but these things are numerous as roaches. Should I have to use up my skip limits on things I specifically said I didn’t want to see in the first place?

Because people put those in all sorts of categories. This has actually been discussed elsewhere in the forums. It IS frustrating, but there’s not a whole hell of a lot we can do until this opportunities shtick runs out.

That’s part of the reason that I took a vacation from Urbis proper, because I was tired of the Focused Review Queue being filled up with that crap. My suggestion is to go to the specific genre you want to review, then pick a story out of there. I know it’s frustrating, but there’s not much we can do.

Fear ye not. The closing date is upon us, whereupon 6 word memoirs will be banished into the abyss, ne’er to return.

Unless you buy the resultant book… or get the t-shirt, I guess.

I do what TND said; I go straight to whatever genre I am in the mood to review and bypass the queue’s on most occasions, even before the memoir contest started.