If you know people are copying reviews, please report them to admin. It's not fair to anyone.

Then I believe advanced should only be obtained through mentors. I have asked for a mentor for help and hope she takes me under her wing.

I honestly think to become advanced, it should be earned through the mentor program. My first review was poor and I learned from comments made about it. I want to give honest, great reviews and read ones that I can count on. I have read some that are as different as night and day, which I understand from a like-dislike point of view, but not in a products details. That would only happen if it's pot luck on manufacturing, and I assume most are mass produced.

I understand that it would be alot of hoops for some, but really I don't think it would be for those whom liked Eden and its members. To me, if it's not the free product for a review that one is after, then there are no real hoops to go through. I want to give people a choice that they can count on and one that serves the community. If mentoring isn't the way to go, then why not let the top ranked ones decide if someone new should advance based on the reviews, not someone just voting for another without reading the reviews? It would be more honest and structured and give a better representation of Eden.

We have discussed this. While a great idea in theory, it isn't doable since there is only a select number of mentors and we all have lives outside of eden. With the rate that eden grows daily, it would be impossible to keep up with. Plus it is dependent upon people wanting to be mentors. Trust me, you will be rewarded for your hard work here. We know when something is legit or not even if we don't catch it right away.

It's not my hard work I'm concerned about. It's the reviews and the new customers coming to the site to have some consistency to the reviews of the products. It's having the most informed decision about whether or not to get a certain product. It's not just the cost of the product, but the experience of using a quality product that will eventually suffer.

I understand there is a huge flow of people joining the site each and every day as this site gets more noticed as a resource. I suppose the best way to go about this is know that I am not alone in this feeling (thanks for the link provided on this topic) and just keep trying to improve on my own reviews, making them the best quality I can. I appreciate everyone's thoughts and insight that they shared.