For reviewers · Heat Points & rewards
How do Heat Points and rewards work?
On top of pay, every approved burn earns Heat Points, a reputation score that unlocks levels, badges, priority access to new burns and free burn credits for your own site. Heat Points itself has no cash value.
What Heat Points is
Heat Points is your reviewer reputation. It goes up when site owners approve your burns and rate them well, and down when burns are rejected. Your Heat Points sets your level (Spark → Ember → Flame → Blaze → Inferno → Wildfire). Each level unlocks perks: free burn credits, priority access to new burns, free AI audits, an Elite label, and a spot on the reviewers page.
How a burn earns Heat Points
- +10 base for every approved burn
- × the owner's rating — 1★ ×0.6 · 2★ ×0.8 · 3★ ×1.0 · 4★ ×1.2 · 5★ ×1.4 (unrated counts as ×1.0). The rating is applied the moment the owner leaves it, so a 5★ later tops you up.
- Bonuses, added flat: +3 targeted burn (the owner asked for your demographic) · +2 complete written notes · +2 recording of 4+ minutes · +3 submitted within 30 minutes of claiming · +2 mobile burn
So a plain approved burn is +10; a 5★ targeted mobile burn with full notes, 5 minutes long and turned around the same day is 14 + 12 = +26.
What else moves Heat Points
- Rejected burn: −15, or −20 when it was silent, too short or off-site
- Ad rating: +1 each, up to 10 a day
- Weekly streak: two or more approved burns in a week keeps a streak going and pays +5 × your streak (capped at 6 weeks in a row)
- Badges: each milestone badge is a one-time bonus of 5 to 200 Heat Pts
- Decay: after three weeks without an approved burn, Heat Points cools 5% a week. It can drop you a level, never to zero.
What Heat Points is not
It isn't money. Your pay is separate: see How reviewer pay works. Heat Points can't be cashed out, transferred or sold, and neither can the burn credits it earns.
Fair play
- Heat Points from any single site owner is capped at 30% of your weekly gain, so nobody can farm one friendly client.
- You can't review the same page twice within 90 days.
- More than 30% rejections over your last 10 burns, a rating average under 3.5, or a silent/short/off-site rejection starts a cooldown.
Everything above is on your Heat Points page in the reviewer area, including a feed of every event.
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