Guidelines

Our platform allows participants to share their experiences with researchers. You can rate a researcher as Positive (if the experience was fair and rewarding) or Negative (if you encountered issues like unfair rejections). Each user is limited to one rating per researcher (one positive or one negative) to ensure data quality and prevent manipulation.

While you can only rate a researcher once, you can interact with other users' reviews by using the Like and Dislike buttons. If a review is flagged by the community (high number of dislikes), it may be nullified, meaning it will no longer affect the researcher's overall reputation score.

To maintain the integrity of our database, we only allow one account per person/IP address. Our system uses advanced fingerprinting to detect multiple registrations from the same device. Users caught creating multiple accounts to manipulate scores will be permanently banned.

If you receive an unfair rejection, follow these steps:

1. Contact the Researcher: Use the Prolific messaging system to ask for a clarification. Politely explain why the rejection might be a mistake (e.g., technical error, misunderstood instruction).
2. Wait for a Response: Give the researcher at least 7 days to respond.
3. Escalate to Prolific Support: If the researcher does not respond or refuses to reconsider a clearly unfair rejection, contact Prolific Support directly to request a manual review of your submission.

Each review shows a badge like "X studies completed", which tells the community how many studies this specific user has done with that researcher.

• When you first rate a researcher, your counter starts at 1 study.
• If you receive another study from the same researcher later, click the purple "I did another study" button on your review to increase your count.
• This does NOT change your rating — it only updates the number of studies you have completed with them.
• A higher study count gives your review more credibility, as it shows long-term experience with that researcher.

All reviews and comments on this platform must be written in English. This ensures that every participant from any country can read and understand all reviews without relying on translation tools.

The website interface can be translated to other languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Japanese) using the language selector in the top menu, but user-generated content (reviews, replies) must always be in English.

Reviews written in other languages may be removed by moderators.