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I had a review before this one for this same website. The owner asked me to take it down because he wanted me to chat with their "24/7" customer support. You will see in the photo that not only has it been 24 hours since I sent in my issue, but it has been 24 hours with no response. I will not be taking down this review again. I tried to resolve my problem only to be ignored.

This website started okay. I did get paid, but many reviews have complained about not getting paid. They seem to pick and choose who they pay out according to other 1-star reviews. It starts at a minimal amount of $5, but this is supposed to be a small odd job type. You read a book for free or buy the book at a discount, and they pay you back more than you spent for your review. Your review gets checked to make sure it follows guidelines.

The problem I ran into was how unprofessional and inaccurate a LOT of their editors are. This issue isn't just one editor. They either don't follow the guidelines themselves and count suggestions of rephrasing of a perfectly grammatically accurate sentence as a grammatical error, give extremely low subjective scores, and then only give their full explanation when you point out that they gave you a two-vague sentence explanation. I have had Oxford commas reported as a grammar error when it says, in the guidelines, they shouldn't count as a grammar error. If you have dyslexia, you will get accused of not reading the book because you mixed up a unique name in the book. If you don't describe the events that happen in the book, you get accused of not reading the book, but if you do, your review gets flagged as having spoilers.

I have gotten little to no help from the moderators and "professionals" as they either seem to be unsure what is going on or completely misunderstand what I was trying to get fixed. The owner completely disregarded my last review about editors and only found an issue with the moderators not being helpful.

You get to have your editors recheck their score and explain why only 3 times in the entire time on this platform. You can have an admin recheck it, but you only have 2 lifetime admin checks. It generates an environment where the editors can do anything and get away with it. If you aren't allowed to report editors who give inaccurate and unprofessional scores, they will score how they want, accurate or not.

I will be resigning from this website, which means permanently removing myself. I have read all the other low reviews. It seems the owner is also scamming the authors. Read other reviews to see their perspective.

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