Knowledge Base

No. Once you've sent off your critique, it can't be removed, any more than you can delete email you've already sent out.

If you and the author that you have sent the crit to both agree to delete it, you can send a message to moderator, but you should consider your crit the joint property of you and the person that you critted once you've sent it out.

Likewise, the person receiving the crit cannot delete or hide the crits she/he has received.

If you want to delete a critique in progress, go to Stories, click on My Critiques and then choose Critiques in progress. On this page you can abandon your crits in progress.

Almost all critiques are accepted — if it's not, you'll be notified.

Critiques are only unacceptable if they contain padded or irrelevant text, something offending or have zero content — often sent in by trolls.

If you quote the story in your critique, this word count will be deducted from the total critique word count through a heuristic feature applied to the text which tries to dig out segments which are a part of the story rather than a part of the critique.

For example, if the story contains the segment "Once in a blue moon I would go out and hunt mice" and your crit has the segment "sometimes during a full moon I would go out and party" the logic might infer that "moon I would go out and" is a part of the story and not the crit and would automatically deduct 6 words from the crit.

If you are around the 150/300 word boundary (which is the only thing that really matters in regards to this), and find that you've been unduly penalized, please send us a message and we'll look into it.

No, it doesn't.

It's not possible to hide critiques but we point out the possibility of making your critiques anonymous except to the author of the story.

You might see a certain number of critiques listed next to your story and fewer actual critiques when you click on the story.

This is because a member's first critique has to be approved by the Moderators/Administrators before it becomes available. This process does not judge the quality of the crit as such but is meant to weed out padding, inflammatory and rude crits.

The reason the actual number shows up on the Queue page is that other members have to be able to see the real number of crits a given story has received so that they can direct their efforts to stories which have actually received fewer crits than others.

If you experience this just wait a bit and the crit will usually become visible within 24 hours.