Shakin’ Up That Can of Raid

Hello authors!  We’ve just fixed a bug related to circle invites.  Some people who are invited to a circle and subsequently accept aren’t automatically subscribed to the circle.  Being a member and being subscribed are two different things–when you subscribe, you receive email updates from the circle, which you can unsubscribe from without actually leaving the circle.

If you haven’t been getting emails with updates for your circles, make sure to visit the circle page and click “subscribe.”

Karma Tweaks and the Review Queue

We’ve gone through a lot of changes to the karma system over the past few weeks, hopefully all for the better.  We have one more tweak to introduce before we sit back and let the dust settle a little bit.   The change is this: extra karma points per word will now only be awarded to critiques of works that are on the review queue.

That means that you can still earn karma by critiquing works that aren’t on the queue; you’ll just earn a little less, depending on how much you write.  Since we’ve raised the cost to publish a work, we hope that more members will focus on critiquing the review queue to earn those karma points.

We’re always in the process of tweaking the system, so you can expect more changes down the line.  Let us know how karma is working for you!