Approval of Ratings & Accounts
In order to maintain the integrity of our ratings, we screen the first few reviews submitted by new users. You can see your own reviews even before they are approved; once approved, the reviews will be viewable by everyone.
Once you have written a few reviews that have been approved, your account will be approved. This means:
- All your ratings and reviews will be posted immediately.
- Your profile will show live links to your website and/or tea blog if you list these.
- You will be able to link your ratings to extended reviews on your blog or website.
Are you an established blogger?
If you already have a blog (including a Tumblr), we will approve your account ASAP even before you have written any reviews on our account. Simply sign up and add a link to your tea blog in your profile.
What do I need to do to be approved?
Write honest reviews and ratings and you will be approved very quickly! We welcome differences of opinion, and no experience or knowledge of tea other than drinking it is necessary to start reviewing teas.
However, we will delete ratings, reviews, and accounts that violate our terms of use. Some examples of such violations include:
- Suspicious behavior that looks like fake ratings promoting a company, such as adding a few perfect or high ratings for teas from a single company, and vanishing, not participating in any other meaningful way in the website.
- Writing overtly promotional or advertising material in a review.
- Adding ratings and reviews that show little regard for the aroma, flavor, and other qualities of the tea you are reviewing.
- Giving ratings that do not correspond to the verbal review given (e.g. extremely high or low ratings given without explanation or in conflict with the written review).
- Linking an external review to a site that is not a review of the tea you are supposedly reviewing, or promoting a product (spamming).
- Any material that would be reasonably considered disrespectful to other users / viewers of the site.
We regret that we currently only support English-language reviews.
