This sucks: Ciao will start paying members $0.25 instead $1.00 per review!

I wouldn't be bogged down with that. Let's not also forget that Ciao has social networking elements so I think Ciao is well up there and this should convince more people to make more reviews. What does that mean? Everyone makes more reviews and it's good for your referrals. And they launched a premium funds thing so that appears to be the tradeoff. I know their plan, it seems they are trying to find ways to reward the ones giving better reviews than the ones who review just for the sake of making dollars. I call it fair game what they are doing.

I find that underpaid for good writers. It's an outrage. Maybe if they find that many members are pulled of because of other decent paying sites, maybe they might reconsider.

This is bad news indeed. I wonder if my review sites will also lower payments.