‡ Submit a Review ‡

If you want to review an archive, it's easy! These are the questions we use; you may choose to only submit one set of questions if you are more comfortable with that. Cut and paste the questions into your email program, then send the results to dracopottamus@hotmail.com. After checking the review for accuracy, it will be included in the next update of the archive review.

General Information
1. What is your name?
2. What is your E-mail address?
Note: a verification email will be sent to this address
3. What is your homepage address?
4. Which archive are you reviewing?
5. What is the web address of this archive?
Authors' Questions:
1. Are the rules and terms of submission easy to find?
2. Do they supply a beta reader for authors?
3. Are they polite about rejecting fics?
4. Do they remove author's notes or copyright notices without asking the author first?
5. Do they ever archive fics without permission?
6. Are they prompt about removing fics at an author's request?
7. What is their plagiarism policy...do they investigate or do they take a complainant at their word?
8. Do they update at least once a month?
9. Do they make it possible for readers to leave feedback?
10. Is their location stable, or do they move frequently?
Reader Review:
1. Is the site attractive?
2. Is the site easy to navigate? (can you get to all the main sections from every page, or do they rely on the 'back' button an awful lot?)
3. How selective is the archive? (Are you likely to find a good story?)
4. Are they a specialty (ship or genre centric) or general (only ratings restrictions) archive?
5. Is it easy to navigate within multi-chaptered stories?
6. Are there search engines? Are they easy to use?
7. Are the indexes (author, title listings) clearly laid out?
8. Are stories appropriately labelled if they require warnings?
9. How many pages do you have to search through to get to the first story?
10. Is it easy to leave feedback?

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