99% of the time it's best to delete the lowest rated score if you're interested in the rankings and charts. Or if not, then the review that helps the least as far as advice goes. Or none at all and happily accept whatever comes your way. There are many threads on the subject going back a couple of years. Also, another thread today on star ratings in 'It was a dark and stormy night'. Take a quick look at that one.

99% of the time it's best to delete the lowest rated score if you're interested in the rankings and charts. Or if not, then the review that helps the least as far as advice goes. Or none at all and happily accept whatever comes your way. There are many threads on the subject going back a couple of years. Also, another thread today on star ratings in 'It was a dark and stormy night'. Take a quick look at that one.

Well, I guess I'm a 'duh' too, as I've never heard of 'every man jack' either.

I am always grateful for help with P & G, even if I don't agree with it. People have gone to the effort of reading and commenting, they don't have to.

The truth is, I'm put off reviewing those who appear ungrateful. My comments may not amount to professional advice, but I am the person who may or may not buy the book. People are free to ignore it, no need to get indigestion or anything else.

I deleted my sig.

Perhaps you could put a note at the beginning of your chapters just to say the sort of review that you want, and the sort you don't. Then those of us who are less experienced, or less confident of our reviewing abilities, would know to pass on it, and you'd only get expert reviews.
That way, everybody's happy.

To my mind, anybody who can't use grammar and punctuation correctly shouldn't be writing yet. They should be learning grammar and punctuation. There are plenty of books and websites around to teach them. But why inflict their lack of literacy on the rest of us? I'm happy to try and review the nuts and bolts of it, but if the grammar is wrong and the punctuation inaccurate, the writer isn't going to get a good review from a professional. And it is virtually impossible to find the potential when the foundations are not in place.
If the grammar or punctuation is wrong, I try to explain to the writer where it is going wrong and why - on the assumption he/she doesn't realise. (We're all guilty of not noticing something in our own work).
My personal opinion is - if you can't write properly (and are unwilling to learn), don't make the rest of us suffer - don't submit to YWO. Stay in 'Cloud Cuckoo Land' and play pretend.

This is not to say all writers use grammar and punctuation in the traditional manner. I know there are those who make a point of doing it differently. But like Picasso, those writers first learned how to do it right, before they opted to break the rules.

Getting down off my soapbox now. Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. Anton Chekhov