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Lazy Lemur Update (Oct. 31, 2009)

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Nate
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Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:03 am
Nate says... · Sat Oct 31, 2009 6:03 am
From now on, all YWS Updates will be named. This is the Lazy Lemur update since it's only barely significant.

Facebook Connect

If you log out of YWS, you'll notice a new way to log-in: a blue Facebook Connect button. Clicking this will link your YWS account with your Facebook account. This is not a big deal for existing users; in fact, it won't do anything for you really.

However, it is a very big deal for yet to be existing users. As long as someone has a Facebook account, they can now skip the YWS registration process entirely.

If you wish to unlink your account, go to My YWS ->> Profile ->> Edit Facebook Settings.


Halloween Theme

New header and background for Halloween! It'll last only for one day, so enjoy it while it's here!


Featured Member

Featured Member is back, and our very first featured member on the new YWS is angels-symphony! The featured member is always displayed on the front page.

To become Featured Member, write lots of good reviews!


Changes to the Review to Work Policy

This is the big change this weekend.

Short Story: What You Need to Know

For the past seven weeks, the review ratio has been mandatory and hard-coded into the site. This is no longer true. Instead, new literary works will cost 250 points to post. You earn points by reviewing, and the maximum number of points you can earn per review is 100. People who have never posted a literary work get one freebie.

Long Story

This change has been made after reviewing the statistics over the past seven weeks. I've been keeping track of how many people have such and such review ratio. For instance, 833 active members have a review to work ratio greater than 1.

Unfortunately, that number (and other similar numbers) have hardly budged since the review to work ratio went into effect. In some cases, the numbers have actually decreased. So it's clear that absolutely requiring a set review to work ratio just was not working. Plus the policy was driving people away from the site.

This means that we're stopping the recommended review to work ratio at 3:1. The review to work ratio will not increase.
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It had a perfectly round door like a porthole, painted green, with a shiny yellow brass knob in the exact middle. The door opened on to a tube-shaped hall like a tunnel: a very comfortable tunnel without smoke, with panelled walls, and floors tiled and carpeted, provided with polished chairs, and lots and lots of pegs for hats and coats—the hobbit was fond of visitors. The tunnel wound on and on, going fairly but not quite straight into the side of the hill —The Hill, as all the people for many miles round called it—and many little round doors opened out of it, first on one side and then on another.
— JRR Tolkien