i feel like a jerk. i recently agreed to write 5 reviews for a board member. ordinarily this would take well under a week - a week if i were busy, and that's what i told him. the catch this time is that he didn't give me logins and the sites he wanted aren't sites that are known to respond to webmaster emails at all so i spent over a week hoping to get logins and never did for two of the sites even after writing to each more than once.

so if you assign sites to review and you get the logins yourself, you will know when you give the sites to the writer that they can get in. otherwise you will either have to buy logins for a couple sites, which is what most review site owners do, or you may want some alternates on your list just in case...