Starting today, completed assignments will only count toward increasing your available promotions once they are fully verified by BookVillage. This means that simply submitting a review will no longer be enough for the contribution to be counted immediately.The assignment must first pass our verification process. In addition, regardless of the type or value of the reviews completed, the maximum disproportionality allowed between completed assignments and activated promotions has been reduced from 30% to 10%. In practical terms: If you have completed 10 assignments, you will now be able to receive a maximum of 11 promotions overall, regardless of the specific types of assignments completed or promotions activated. These changes are part of the massive verification process we are currently conducting across all user accounts inside BookVillage. Our goal is to dramatically improve the long-term stability of the platform and restore the speed at which promotions get booked, while keeping review removals as low as possible. And after analyzing enormous amounts of internal data, one thing has become extremely clear: The era where people could create Amazon accounts used almost exclusively to post unverified ebook reviews, instead of posting verified paid ones, is over. From now on, these types of accounts will no longer be accepted inside BookVillage. Accounts must either show signs of real customer behavior, especially a minimum history of physical product purchases, which dramatically increases the overall trust score of the account in Amazon’s eyes. Or they must focus exclusively on verified purchase reviews. Based on all the data we analyzed so far, these healthier account structures are not currently the primary targets of Amazon’s moderation systems. We know these changes are stricter. But they are necessary. The review you post is the review another author receives. Protecting the quality and safety of reviewer accounts protects the entire Village. As always, if you have questions or doubts, ask us directly or contact support.