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I'd agree with that. It would be nice if they could be separated somehow to have a better filtering. I for one don't really like reading fan-fictions and with all of these fan-fictions and originals it gets hard to find anything interesting.
While we're at it, I'd also like to be able to separate the "normal" originals from the contracted ones. But, well, I doubt we'd get either of that anytime soon (if ever).

I think there would be the requirement of an editor to separate fan fictions from original work. Because no matter what you do, people will end up posting stuff in the more popular section.

But yes, there needs to be a different rankings for fan fiction and original content.

yansusustories actually I wouldnt mind seperate voting mechanism for original and translated novels. 3 stones is too few right now to split into both.

Cat Man Agrees with the Hooman.

yansusustories I think they were replying to your post and my 3rd paragraph :)

yansusustories you didnt say anything about voting. But it was a suggestion to your suggestion. Lol

And yes, fan fiction is an original work in itself, but it gives you a world, character back ground, relationships, power system etc on a platter. But if someone writes a new book, they don't have it.

Ah, this forum is confusing me

Lol if you think writing a Fan-Fiction is 'EASY' then I'm sorry but you are dead wrong. Like completely wrong. Like you said, whatever they are using already has a source and once your fanfic isn't true to that source your fic is dead. It's easy to write something where you can decide how all your character act, but if a side character acts differently from the source you will be roasted.

Running only involves moving your legs back and forth, does that make it easy? No. There are plenty of shitty fan-fics and shitty of what you call 'Original' novels. If you say Fan-Fics are easy to write I'm guessing you have one in the top ranks?

If I give you a blueprint for a nuclear reactor can you build one? What you're saying is belittling to people who put a lot of work into things they love.

Myumara Maybe I haven't paid enough attention but I think nobody said it was easy? The point here was rather that it is something different from a completely original novel because of the things you mentioned as well: It is based on a source and should stay true to that source (to at least some extent) while an original novel doesn't have that feature. (Well, as I said I don't read fanfictions because it's just not my cup of tea but as far as I've seen there are also plenty of fanfictions that don't really care about all aspects of the source like the ones with romance that isn't canon? But discussing that would be beside the point here, so that's just on a side note.)
I'd say that neither fanfictions nor original novels (which you seem to be assuming?) are easy to write. It's just that the difficulties might lie in different things.

But this post isn't about being easy or not (at least I didn't understand it this way) but a discussion about whether it would be an idea to separate fanfictions from original novels. And this has imo nothing to do with easy or bad but just with the fact that they are different things and that it might be nice for readers to have those different things separated.
Well, I guess you wouldn't even need a different category for that but at least some option for an author to tick "Yes, this is a fanfiction" in inkstone would be nice. And then that could be used as a sort-function for fanfictions for readers just so that readers might be able to find what they like or filter out what they don't like more easily.

yansusustories if that's the case I have no idea what you are talking about. Fan-Fics are clearly labeled Fan-Fics. If you don't want to read Fan-Fics don't click them?!? If you can't even read the category of the story before you read it than that just sounds lazy. Do you still need people to cut your food for you too?

Myumara You said

Myumara Fan-Fics are clearly labeled Fan-Fics.

This is not always true. I've discovered multiple Fan-Fics that were not labeled as such since they were so far into being a side story that the notable characters of the original story played no part so they labeled it with something else, since you can only have one label, and it was more something else than a Fan-Fic.;,;.

As for the rest of what you said.
There is having to scroll through many fan-fics to pick out the Original content, and if there are too many in a small area, then you may accidentally skip over an Original in the mix rather than to have to look at every Fan-Fic to see that it is a Fan-Fic (at least when you View All Genre).

Myumara I'm agreeing with DeJeL here.
You can't pick the fanfictions out just through the category (and I do understand that the authors would like to rather put it in a genre than the fanfictions category, especially if the link with the source material is rather weak) and it's really tiresome to filter those out manually considering there are already so many originals you have to look at.
Now, this wouldn't be a problem if webnovel's search system was better but considering the stage it is stuck in (I mean we're only able to sort through genre and type while browsing and searching itself works only with a name or an abbreviation while things like tags don't work at all) that is not such an easy task. I normally give up after a short time and just pick a translated novel. That's certainly not how it should be.

Well, these are only my thoughts and I doubt that webnovel will implement something that separates originals and fanfictions. At least I don't see it happening anytime soon. But I think we're all a little bit responsible for making webnovel a better side so speaking our minds and proposing things we'd like to see changed is the way to go, imo. If you don't agree with the opinions so far you can always give your own. But let's remain friendly, please ;)

Myumara Oh, I just noticed I forgot to answer the question what this was about.
So, originally, this was about having 3 categories: translations, original novels and fanfictions (at least that's what I understood)
Since I don't care about voting I raised my issue which was the browsing/searching where I would like a better method to filter. (Which would be automatically achieved if we had 3 categories)

I think it would just be better if tags worked. Search by tag would fix all that.

Myumara There are ways to search by specific tags, but not to eliminate specific tags and have all the others... and I don't know about the others here, but I like all kinds of stories (personally that includes Fan-Fictions), but some have only one kind of thing (in this case, Fan-Fics) that they don't wanna read.;,;.

Example of what I said, this will only show you novels TAGGED as Femail Protagonist: https://www.webnovel.com/tag/list?tagName=Female%20Protagonist
.;,;.

Please make these changes;
Limit max 1 power stone vote daily per novel.
Limit max 1 review post and add edit option on the old review post if read new chapters.
Let author tag their novel themselves. (Change nothing for readers)

As for the Fan-fiction, creating a new section or removing from the original section seemed kinda complicated.
Unless create a Fan-fiction Power Ranking.
However, I won't call it as the original novel and agree that Webnovel should remove it from Original section.

TriggeredTurtle Limit max 1 review post and add edit option on the old review post if read new chapters.

Though I understand this and agree in your reason (unstated, but assumed to be spam reviewing), I would prefer they limit it to two instead. I like leaving my review for the first 5 chapters there while I write a review for the last chapter read when I am done reading a specific novel, just so people can see where I started, and where I ended, with how I viewed the novel. I know I could include that into one review, but that would include more typing such as saying where I would have rated it in each of the arias in the beginning and where I would rate each of the arias now and why the change, which I don't feel like adding.;,;.