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Originally Posted by SPW Guru
One of the explanations I got is we were marked down for adding some non exclusive content so we we are not 100% exclusive. Lets not bother to count we add more exclusive content per week then most do in months on top of the non exclusive stuff we add.
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This is something I'd like to talk about with the reviewers and may be something we can improve on.
"Exclusive" score (5 pts) is one of the toughest scores to judge for our reviewers. A site that contains 100% exclusive content (no third party feeds, leased content, etc) deserves a full score. However, those sites may suffer in the "quantity" score (15 pts) since it's expensive to produce a ton of it. If that site decided to add some decent non-exclusive content, they would have an advantage with "quantity" and suffer a small hit to "exclusive".
It's tough to make it work perfectly. If a site adds useful non-exclusive content as an extra bonus to users, in most cases they should improve on the overall score which is what's important. The total improvement though would most likely be very small since the content is usually secondary (and of less value to users) compared to the primary content. Each case is unique, and our reviewers need to keep multiple variables in mind to score this properly.