The most important change you’ll notice as of midnight tonight is the new ShareScore that is emblazoned on your review mini-profile, full public profile, and your profile home page. This is a number that is generated by a new scoring system that measures the responsibility you take with your activities in the community, and awards bonuses or negatives based on how you approach each thing you do within the community.

One of the biggest changes with the ShareScore is the fact it will now not only resolve ties between reviewers vying for a top revenue earning spot each cycle, but it will also affect how many votes you are allowed to cast in each category. Every new member now starts at a rep score of 50% which allows 2 votes per category. Scores over 75% allows for 3 votes, and members who hit and keep 100% are allowed 4! Alternatively if a ShareScore falls below 25%, then members will only be allowed 1 vote per category.

Specifically, the following activities can affect your Rep Score:

1) Publishing Reviews
2) Voting
3) Commenting
4) Reporting Reviews
5) How Complete and Public your Profile is
6) How you make Friends
7) Inviting your friends to join the community

The important point to remember is that each of these actions has a positive and a negative associated with HOW you approach them. Here are some examples of good and bad affects on your reputation score:

Really Good: Reporting a review that’s spam
Really Bad: Reporting a review just because you don’t like the author

Good: Voting for great reviews you love!
Really Bad: Voting for a review you didn’t read and ends up being rejected.

Good: Posting a comment that speaks to the author or audience and positively contributes to the review content.
Bad: Just posting “Voted!”

Good: Having a lot of members become your friend!
Bad: Spamming everyone and anyone you can find to become your friend

Really Good: Telling All your friends to join SharedReviews!
Not Bad at All: There is none, the more friends you get to join, the more responsibility you are taking to help grow the community. Invite Everyone!

Stay tuned for a community announcement this week that will have more details about March Revenue Share, February payment dates, and other cool details on what’s happening with the community.

You guys are just great! We are all so eager for the real deal, but these details will help us wait.

I guess I do hope that we won’t be penalized if we don’t want to share our income… oh, and it says mine isn’t complete, but that seems to be because I didn’t need an extra line for the address.

Peter thank you. I think the responsibility score will really enhance voting and community participation. What you’ve just laid out is crystal clear and on point. One question though. I keep getting -1’s on cats I’m looking at to vote. Is that because I’ve been naughty in some way???

It’s an issue that’s related to the new vote changes combined with an unforeseen complication due to the midnight vote rollover. The guys are working on a fix and we should have it live in no time.

Whew! I really did think I had done something wonky LOL! Thank you Peter. I’m heading off to bed, it’s been a long day. Thank you and Michael for always being so responsive.

hello Peter! How can I have referrals through email and my blog? I had a blog and I can post one topic there for Shared Reviews to increase awareness of my world-wide visitors about this. Do I need to have a referral code? Many thanks for the help in advance and more power to shared reviews.

So how does the reputation score cycle? Does your score at the end of the month determine how many votes you get NEXT month, or can your score change enough in the middle of the month to suddenly give you more votes that month?

Here’s a question on voting. Say I vote on a review that I personally love and think is great but it never goes anywhere, and another review flies to the top because of friends. Does that make my choice bad and lower my score or just if that review would be pulled for some reason? Who determines a good review, whether at the top or botom? Also, how does someone spam friends? Perhaps my computer knowledge is not that great but I thought we either sent a request or answered a request. Will my score be affected by deleting friends who I see are no longer participating in voting and writing reviews?

Morning Alice :)
I think spamming your friends…maybe they meant sending requests to join shared…by email….you know how you get stuff in your inbox that says “join this site…I’ve made x amount of $ in just five days”....etc….at least that is the way I think it was meant. If you get a friend request here or send one, that’s different. You are just networking at shared.

I think if you find a review that is fantastic then you should vote for it, maybe post something in the forum that says why you think it’s great. We might have overlooked it or just not found it yet. That way the “cream will rise to the top” as the guys have said before.

Good luck friend !

Oh, goody, Tink… I like your idea of posting a good review we’ve found for “action”. I found one I through was really neat yesterday. Now if I can only find it again!

I have to add to what sharkbytes posted about profile information. I have added all the information to my profile that I can so there is no way that I can bring that up to 100%. I only have 1 address, I don’t use a mobile phone, I do not have a blog, and the only additional internet addresses I can provide was my myspace page. Therefor I can’t fill it in. I hope there is not too much penalty for leaving those blank because there is nothing to put there. Does this mean I would never be able to reach a reputation score of 100%?

dsnygrl, I was wondering about that also, as I’ve filled out everything there is and am only at 73%, perhaps the SR group could fill us in.

Tink, I like your idea. Some people are not comfortable posting and some just might not have the time so if we can help a little, that would be a great friend gesture and perhaps get them to join us in the fun!

dsnygrl and Alice, my profile is only at 78% complete, and that’s after I linked my Facebook page and filled in all pertinent details about me. I hope that doesn’t mean we are to be penalized because we don’t blog or have a personal web page?

Also, since early today, my rep has gone from 57% to 52%, despite the fact that I’ve posted some new reviews and voted on 20 reviews for others. I know that that’s probably only temporary, but it sure is discouraging.

I hope not either, let’s wait for the SR guys fill us in on this. I’m sure they’re busy at the moment but we’ll keep reminding them! About your reputation….that is a mystery and I sure would be in the dumps, especially if you are posting new reviews and voting, both of which are “good” and should increase, not decrease, your score. Perhaps there are bugs to be worked out, don’t panic yet!

Nope, haven’t worked myself into a panic yet. Gimme a few hours tho. ;-P

I’ll check back later to see if Michael or Peter have weighed in on our concerns. I’m sure they’ll be along soon.

I like this system – especially that we will benefit from good comments made! I’m tired of seeing just ‘voted!’ as comments on my articles.
Thank you – this site is fantastic!

I’ve got my Rep up to 55%, but it looks like those points will be hard-earned. That is good on one hand, but I hope it isn’t so difficult that it becomes discouraging. Like the ranking being based solely on income. I’ll never be in the top group because I just don’t have the time to spend here that some do. I really hope the Rep score will reflect the quality of the time I do spend.

Sharkbytes, your post voiced my concerns exactly. I just don’t have endless hours to devote to being here, as much as I’d love to. But when I AM able to be here, I really try to be a productive member of the SR community. Hope that counts for something.

Let me weigh in with some comments, but please keep in mind we can’t let the “formula” out of the bag so it may take some thought and time to figure things out.

1) The spamming members comment was a reference to friend requests within the community, there is NO negatives for inviting friends outside of SR through the invite tools or using your referral url’s on your blogs, other sites, etc… Community growth is an integral factor to the long term success of SR. This benefits everyone from a wider pool of votes for your older reviews, to more new reviews for you to vote on, to more monetization/traffic which equals bigger community payouts each cycle.
2) We wanted to make sure we separated the Reputation Score from the monthly revenue earnings. This means you won’t have an increase in your reputation for doing actions you should be doing to earn revenue such as writing reviews. Voting is only measured in terms of quality not quantity or review ranking. Voting for quality reviews whether they get votes or not will get you a bonus. Vote for a spam review, or a non-review and you could get a hit negatively.
3) The formula is designed to be fluid, so that if you’re doing the right things, no matter which of the things ads a bonus, you can get to 100%. Just keep in mind somethings have a bigger bonus/hit than others. Everyday things would have less, whereas big things like helping to police the content or incenting bad content have a bigger effects.
4) Hint: If you notice your score go down today, try and walk through what your actions were, and what level of “quality” you put into them that may be affecting the score negatively.
5) The increases and decreases to votes per category will be real time, but only affects the number of votes per category from that point forward… any votes already cast will not be affected.

Peter this algothrim is very very fair to the entire community. It simply asks us to act responsibly with the community in mind as we go about doing things here. It just doesn’t get better than this.

I like what I am seeing, wonderful job again guys! You make it a pleasure to be here :D

OK stupid non computer person question here, can somebody please define what spamming other members is. I’m sorry, I’m kinda slow with computer terms. i know I get spam in my email for enlarging body parts I do not have but other than that, I have no clue what I could do here that would be considered spamming. Help!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming :) Scroll down to the Community / IM description.

I think if you read the first part of Peter’s comments above- I just did again, he is saying soliciting votes by mass e-mailing other members or just simply spamming the voting system with voteds regardless of content is not helpful? I’m not sure, but since he stresses within the comunity, it seems right.