Am I to believe that no-one on Urbis currently has an active Pro item? My focused review is completely empty. I have done reviews in almost every genre and have 96+% review rating. So why would my focused queue be completely empty for the past 3-4 days?

I submitted one PRO item within the last few days. You should have got it.

I’ve had only one new thing in my focused review queue the whole of this last week—and it appeared less that 24 hours ago.

I’m guessing it’s either a bug or it’s an unexpected flip-side of taking stuff out of queues once they get reviews.

No items in my queue also. They just stopped coming after the 6-word madness stopped.

Yeah, that’s exactly when I noticed it.

The 6 words seemed to be under control; the they went A.I for a couple more days just to be creepy. Then * poof * no more focused reviews in the queue. Bummer. I’m trying to build uo some credits like fancy pants’ SquareHopper and Weaver…:D I have turned off all of the reviews on all of my items so that I can build up a stock pile for when I have that wonderful AHA! moment and write something I think is great…and I need all of those credits so that I can be reminded that I suck and my head will need to be able to fit through doorways again!

But yeah; somethings got to be going on with the Pro feature. Surely there review limit wouldn’t have had this drastic of an impact? If so, uh-oh!!

Something is going on in the review queues. They are just not giving us enough options. Probably under 75% of what I had before. I realize that many items aren’t making it into the queue because of the new limit. If it is the cause of this lack of ability to review, then maybe we should consider upping the amount of unlocked reviews that are allowed.

I still think deleting inactive accounts is a good idea. Evenif it looks better to have more members, certainly it looks better to still ave a ton of ACTIVE users. When I was admin on a writing forum, I was diligent about deleting members for inactivity. It was one of the requirements of the site. That and thorough reviews/critiques.

However, I do hope that this issue is addressed relatively soon. It is popping up all over the threads, more and more are having problems with the queues. Please get us reviewers to those people who are in need of reviews and can’t seem to get them. It does seem to be becoming a potentially rather large problem.:)

Ummm…my review queue is full now…so, I guess things are getting back to normal around here. Yay!

I realize that many items aren’t making it into the queue because of the new limit.

What new limit? No one wants to answer me why the hell not all items go to the review queue.
I see them created in the galery, I know they’re fresh, open for reviews but they don’t make it to the review queue. When I finally decide to random review them I see they appeared 0 times un the queue. It’s all messed up and no one believes me and no one cares.
So perhaps it’s best that I stop caring. ::stuffs a remaining piece of lasagna in his mouth and chases it with yoghurt::

I meant the limit on unlocked reviews. I thought that might be effecting how many items are making it into the queue. I do believe Steve said they would still be open for random reviews; maybe that’s the problem. Especially because you review poetry. I would imagine they (really short pieces) hit their review limit pretty quickly.

Oooh, yes, great noticing. Yeah, I believe that’s it. ::bows to the perceptive princess Karma::
Is that limit a good thing then? I find it irritating to have an empty queue.

Try the randoms…at least you can check and see that the person is active and will open the review at some point before you submit a review that you may not get paid for.

I am thinking that the limit needs to be upped; or maybe just upped on shorter pieces. Or maybe a certain amount of credits that are tied up in unlocked reviews should decide the amount of times in the queue. I’d say that the credit limit (of those that are tied up in unlocks) would make it fair game all around. If I was writing poetry, I would be cool with ten unlocked reviews, as they probably cost about 50 credits apiece to open. Mine generally cost 4-500 to unlock; so I can live with that because if I can only have two of them, then I know that I won’t be drowned by them when I return. Writers of shorter peices can get many more reviews and still remain with their heads above the water.

Generally, a review for poetry worth less than 100 credits is useless. Except for the ego boosting. And some people even leave 200+ reviews on poetry ::points his finger:: Not that they are bad, on the contrary ;)
But, yeah, limit should be upped for shorter pieces.

This is really an issue. In the last three weeks I have only received less then that 6 focus reviews. That queue has been empty for 3 days. Maybe it is because I finally fell under 80% review quality?

No way, I’m at 91% and get 3-4 pieces per week. As opposed to 5 a day before.
Bugville, I tell you!

No, I’ve tried filtering my Pro items to people with review stats of anything 75% and above, and still do not get a good enough amount of people (0.01%, haha) to even bother with. So I take all stipulations out of my Pro items for the simple fact that I’m really not gonna get reviews if Urbis is only giving me 0.01% of members; just think what happens to that number when I try to include ‘has reviewed at least xx reviews in xx category’. If the update button would work, I would know. But as it is, I don’t feel that any of those numbers are accurate. Of course, a ton of members whose accounts are over several months old (which I would venture to say is a large percentage of accounts), they don’t have review stats at all because they have not reviewed since the rating began. Yet another reason to be rid of inactives ;)

So my focused queue is pretty full right ow, but it has taken two weeks to get there, whereas before, the thing refilled itself near instantly.

Yes, do away with inactive accounts. Please!

I still think they should be frozen. Not deleted. Cryogenics beats destruction.

Again why do you want inactive account to be punished in any form? If steve doesn’t need the space, let him do what he deems best. How is it really bothering you. I doesn’t bother me, and I am a pretty active veteran user.

Well, our other thread concerning the amount of locked reviews we have all given (you at 20%, me at 27%, Jeb at about 25%) has some interesting coinciding elements.

First of all, I’d go out on a limb to say that if inactive accounts were frozen, suspended, hibernated or something then that number would drop dramatically.

Additionally, their stats are cramping up the factual percentages of the Pro feature. It actually makes it appear as though a much smaller ratio of users will see your item than really will.

I mean, if the stats say ‘matches 0.46% of Urbis users’, and 30% of the Urbis population is inactive, then think about how differently (and more appealing) those stats would be if those accounts weren’t equated in with the rest.

I mean, I’m not trying to force Steve’s hand by any means, and always hope he will do what he deems necessary, as he made the site a huge success and a giant help for writers globally, I don’t see why he has any influence by a minion like myself. I am simply expressing in the forums, my feelings on the topic. Why am I so anal retentive on this one topic? I’ve no idea; but I think the above mentioned ideals are worth considering.

Well, I think that with the limit the inactive accounts will not be a problem in the showing up in queue’s. And as for the other issues, that is really a math issue. There could be a variable subtracting accounts not active within x time frame.

Whatever makes the math more accurate will please me. PLus, I think it will just look better.

I really don’t care if people are active or not, just about how it effects me. if they could use a variable to subtract those accounts from the equations, it would really be the same difference to me. That’s all I’m asking, is that their accounts be taken out of ‘active’ mode. I mean, I don’t even know how many users are on Urbis, so the number of accounts doesn’t make even a slight difference to me.

As far as the review limit thing, of course it will help in that aspect…but it will have to be adjusted soon if it is, in fact, the reason that the review queues are empty.

Ahem, I’m at 36% locked, holding the Urbis national record. Yay, a gold medal, I would like to thank my momma, and god, and jesus, and people never opening my reviews, you all made the difference!
I think what Karma, and me for that matter, wants is an improved search button. Which would sort users by number of reviews, age, activity, and so on. In short: give us gigatons of statistics and info!

And why the hell you get “general stranger” next to the specific review you did? Should be “specific stranger” or something?!

The new locked review rule will remove many items from your requested queue, sometimes causing it to be empty.

Jeb makes a good point. It would be nice to know which reviews were by done by focused reviewers. We have ‘random’ reviewers, ‘general-friend’ reviewers, ‘general-stranger’ reviewers, but no ‘specific/focused’ reviewers.