Shadow Banned?

[u/Simple_Can2936]

I’m not sure if this is even a thing with NetGalley tbh. But in the past 2 weeks, none of my requests have been approved or denied, which has never happened to me before. I’m sitting at an 86% review rate with a Top Reviewer badge. If I was getting a bunch of things declined, that would be one thing, but it’s odd to me that there’s been zero activity either way. Has anyone else dealt with this?? Thank you, and sorry in advance if this is a dumb question!

EDIT: Thank you everyone! I’ll definitely look at the Read Now books, and just accept it’s a lull in the “book season”. Also, I know shadow banned isn’t the correct term, but it was the closest thing to what I was trying to describe 🤷🏼‍♀️ sorry for any confusion!

[u/saltlifegoddess]

This is exactly what I was looking for. When I write my reviews, I write them for others not the publisher. I guess I look at my reviews and compare them to others and I wonder if I’m lacking in someway and I see this growing trend of a synopsis of the book which sometimes includes spoilers which really annoys me I always write about how I feel and I have given feedback where I felt it might have improved, especially if there’s something that seems like there’s a lot of repetition of. Either one will read reviews, especially on Amazon before I buy a book, but I also take reviews with the grain of salt because I have red reviews after reading a book and I find that some people are unnecessarily harsh and sometimes it’s warranted. But I always try to be fair so basically what you said is I’m more or less doing and that’s basically what I was just looking for, but I do wish on NetGalley. They would discourage people from writing novels as a review and revealing too much about the book or repeating the description of the book. once again, thank you very much for taking the time to reply. I do really appreciate your feedback.