Out of curiosity I just peeked at my public profile page to see if my Angel perfume review was still listed as one of my top ten reviews..its gone, completely gone...It's been listed for a few years now.....hmmm, all you gals who write in beauty, now I understand your frustrations ...

I wonder why nobody from epinions has written a message on the board to update any progress..

RE: SAP's... it is finally working again, keeping in mind that a huge backlog was created due to the downtime and all the contest frenzy over the last several months. The process also changed for us so we are still figuring it all out as well. I also have a lot of older SAPs due to the wait time we previously experienced for brands to be added. We don't have to do that any longer but, all the ones that were waiting are also in the mix of the pile up from the downtime. Obviously this means my inbox folder of SAPs is quite large.... my goal is to soon have it empty!

Melissa and I really try to get them out as quickly as we can but both of us also went from being home full time to working full time. So that will obviously have an effect on our previously lightening-fast turnaround time. It's a good thing SAP's are not a required duty for CL's :) We will get them out as soon as we can.

As for the other issues (fluctuating stats, reviews not showing up, etc).... those are questions I don't have an answer for so I hope bug reports are being filed when these problems come up!

Shantel :)

Although I'd be lying horribly if I said I never choose my review topics with no consideration of how many outside hits I get, I tend to write about whatever it is I write about more or less randomly. The only exception is when I actually buy something new and want to write about it right away or if, for instance, something that I already have coincides with the release of something new, like a new Indiana Jones or Star Trek movie.

That having been said, I am extremely disappointed by my hits counts on reviews that I wrote recently without purposely thinking, Aha! This review is bound to get a zillion hits but nevertheless figured they'd get some traction because they are about popular products. One in particular has that "review" word tacked on to the URL and is getting no outside hits. More worrisome, in the product listing where it says how many Eps reviews have been written the figure is given as 17, yet if I click on Read Reviews, only four writers' Epinions show up. Four. And yes, they all have the /review/ bit embedded in the tagline.

I'm also not getting any outside hits on K&F reviews. True, that's not a category where I have any hat whatsoever, but it is one of my favorite places to write in, and while I'll continue writing reviews there, I'm beginning to think that it's rather a pointless exercise, since all I'm earning there is the one-time-only $10-4-10 bonus.

I just keep telling myself that when it is fixed I will have a huge potential to gain outside hits whether the "lost" hits are factored back in or not.

Down the Road Mark

But........if your review got that many hits one month, it IS being seen by the world. Did it have the /review in it then too?

Movie folks -

If you have a review that has the /review/ tag in it and know that there are others of the same movie that do not, send me an email. There may be a way we can move them. It depends entirely on the title and the hoops seem to be a little different for each one, but I was able to successfully move four reviews away from the /review/ listing and onto the one without the tag and three of the four have begun counting outside hits. Not impressive hits, but more than zero.

Of course this only works if such a listing exists, but I'm happy to help anyone that wants to try.

Sue

With all the "fixes" does anyone have an answer to why our Beauty and Wellness MH's are not making it to the front page?

Thanks :) Kimm