# Reviews & creator notes > Player reviews, your replies, and notes that never reach the AI. Source: https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/reviews-and-notes Language: en Two switches on the **General Settings** tab decide how much of your character's page belongs to the people playing it. Both are **on** by default. A third field, on **Basic Information**, is how you talk back. ## Reviews \[#reviews] **Reviews** lets players rate and review the character and reply in the threads. | | | | ------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Rating | 1 to 5 whole stars. A rating with no text is allowed | | Before rating | A player needs a few replies from the character first, so every rating comes from someone who has played | | Text | Optional, up to **2,000** characters | | Images | Up to **5** per review. Players can attach scenes from their own chats | | One per player | A player has a single review per character; posting again edits it | | Sorting | **Newest** or **Most liked** | | Your own character | You cannot review it | Players rarely go looking for a review form, so the stars come to them: a star button in the chat's top bar and the character panel beside the chat both take a one-tap rating, with words optional. Right after a player favorites the character or shares a conversation or scene from it, a small prompt may offer the stars too, and a player who keeps coming back may see a strip above the message box asking once. Winning a bounty on the character offers them in the result too. The prompts stop as soon as the player has rated. New reviews notify you. The average shows on the character's page and cards once at least **three** players have rated it. Until then the page shows only how many players have rated it, without stars (**No ratings yet** before the first rating), so a new character is not judged on one or two votes. Your [analytics](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/analytics) show every rating from the first one. Each review shows how many days its author had chatted with the character when they last saved it. ### Replying \[#replying] Anyone reading a review can reply to it, including you. Replies are up to **1,000 characters**, and yours carry a **Creator** badge so nobody has to guess who is answering. Two replies show under a review by default, with **View all replies** to open the rest. You can delete any reply in a review thread on your own character — your own, or someone else's. The reviewer is notified when a reply lands on their review. > You cannot delete or edit a player's review itself. Only its author can do > that. If a review breaks the rules rather than disagreeing with you, > [report it](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/safety-and-reporting) from its menu. A review > removed after a report disappears from the page and stops counting toward > the rating. Its author can appeal, but cannot edit or replace it in the > meantime. Disagreement alone is never grounds for removal. ### Rating protection \[#rating-protection] Nobody can check whether a one-star was deserved — Reverie does not read players' chats to judge it — so an honest low rating always stands. What rating protection checks is whether a rating came from real play by an independent player: * **Rankings weigh play.** In the character lists and the creator rankings, a rating from someone who chatted only briefly counts for less than one from a player who came back on other days. The average on the page stays the plain average of the ratings that count. * **Manipulation stops counting.** Ratings that turn out to be manipulation — linked accounts rating together, a sudden wave of low ratings from brand-new accounts, accounts that rate almost everything low without really playing, low ratings aimed at one creator's characters — stop counting toward the rating and every ranking. Clear-cut cases stop counting automatically; anything less certain waits for a person. The review stays on the page, and its author is not told. * **A daily limit.** A player can add at most **20** new ratings a day. Changing a rating they already gave does not count toward it. On your own character, a review whose stars no longer count shows **Not counted**, to you only. Your [analytics](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/analytics) also say how many ratings rating protection left out. If a rating looks like part of a campaign rather than an opinion, choose **Report suspicious rating** from the review's menu. It is checked right away, and the review then shows where it stands: | On the review | What it means | | ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | **Not counted** | The rating came from manipulation. Its stars stop counting; the review stays on the page | | **Under review** | Something looks off, and a person will decide. The label changes when they do | | **Checked** | The player had chatted for days, or nothing points at manipulation, so the rating stays. Ratings after brief play already count for less in rankings | You can report up to **3** ratings per character each week, each rating once. It is for manipulation, not disagreement: a low rating from someone who played is feedback, and the best answer to it is a public reply. ### Turning reviews off \[#turning-reviews-off] Switching **Reviews** off stops new reviews and stops replies. Existing reviews stay on the page, and their authors can still edit their own words. It is worth leaving on. Reviews are the only first-party signal a browsing player has about whether a character is good, and a thread you answer reads very differently from an empty one. ## Community snapshots \[#community-snapshots] **Community snapshots** lets players share scenes from their own chats on the character's page. You can hide any of them, and anyone can report one. This is the fastest way for a character's page to fill with evidence of what playing it is actually like, but it is also other people's scenes on your page — turn it off if that is not what you want. See [snapshots](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots). ## Creator notes \[#creator-notes] **Creator notes (optional)** sits on the **Basic Information** tab. It is up to **20,000 characters**, supports Markdown, and appears on the character page as **A word from the creator**, in the language you wrote it in. It is **never sent to the chat AI**. That is the whole point of it: notes are addressed to the player, not to the character. Good uses: * How you intend the character to be played, and what the fun part is. * Content warnings a bio has no room for. * Credits — artists, source material, collaborators. * A changelog when you rework a character people already play. Anything you want the AI to act on belongs in the description or the [prompt fields](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/prompt-fields) instead. Anything you write in creator notes will be read by players and ignored by the model. ## Related \[#related] * [Publishing a character](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/publishing) * [Writing a character](https://reverie.im/en/docs/characters/writing-tips) * [Snapshots](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/snapshots) * [Analytics](https://reverie.im/en/docs/creators/analytics) * [Safety and reporting](https://reverie.im/en/docs/community/safety-and-reporting)