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In the last update to the app, the top 3 or so comments appear at the end of the chapter. I am hoping the developers can undo this change.

There are some readers who consistently post future spoilers, and somehow the spoilers get liked and end up in the top 3. Some comments are not much of spoilers, such as when a WN author already post spoiler in the next chapter's title. But some comments are blatant spoilers, like revealing the identity of a mysterious character, or the death of a character and the chapter number of when it will occur. I try not to read the top comments at the end of the chapter, but I have to scroll past them in order to get to the "Vote with Power Stone" button.

If removing the top comments isn't possible, then perhaps there can be a way for readers to deal with spoilers in the comments. Such as having an option for a reader to report a comment as a spoiler, and after a certain number of reports, the comment would have to be tapped on to reveal it.

Yes, please, I second this.

Agreed, I'm third in this

Sorry, I somehow missed that this was already suggested 1-2 days ago in another post. But it was for a different reason.

captain_krunch you could set them to most liked or newest.

Eliza_Thornberry But can you globally save that? If yes, then where do I do that? Because I have only found how to change that for the novel I'm reading at the moment but as soon as I close that and then open it again it will be the most liked comments again. And as far as I've seen that doesn't change the three comments displayed at the end of the chapter at all :(

With spoiler complaints, even this Rabbink had to agree.

yansusustories then change it to oldest if you want the first 3 comments rather than the most liked. They were usually "exp", "first", "exp sect". Idk why anyone will bother with them.

Eliza_Thornberry You misunderstood. The problem is that I can't make a global change for the comments at all, neither to the newest nor to the oldest. The 3 comments upon opening a chapter will always be the 3 most liked and those, as captain_krunch said in his post, oftentimes include spoilers (major ones at that).

yansusustories how could comments be a spoiler? If you read the comments first before you read the chapter then you have nobody else to blame but yourself.

Eliza_Thornberry Which operating system do you have on your phone, and can you give instructions on how to change which comments appear at the end of the chapter? I have Android 7 and changing the sorting method in the full comments page does not affect the 3 comments that automatically appear at the end of the chapter in my app.

As far as I saw, no one in this thread has mentioned reading comments before reading the chapter. Comments can be spoilers by revealing details of future plot, especially plot twists, cliffhangers, and conclusions of ongoing story threads. I gave an example in the first post, such as revealing the future death of a character and even which future chapter the death will occur.

Eliza_Thornberry

Eliza_Thornberry I'm not doing that. But there are 2 possibilities here:
1. You are only catching up to a novel and some people rereading have posted spoilers in the comment section already.
2. You are up to date with a novel but other readers have already read the raws or seen spoilers somewhere else.

It's actually not that rare of a thing.

I would add to the definition of a spoiler, that the future detail has to have a degree of specificity. How specific depends on who you ask. Saying something like "the next chapter is going to be about slice of life" is probably not specific enough to be a spoiler. Saying the protagonist will lose the ongoing battle 5 chapters from now is pretty specific.

Also, spoilers are from people who know what will happen, usually because they read ahead in the raws, or because someone else told them. An honest theory about future plot can sometimes be misunderstood as a spoiler if the theory turns out to be accurate. And sometimes readers may disguise a spoiler as a theory, but it would be difficult to prove that.

yansusustories why would anyone like those comments? Those should be reported. XD The novels I read top comments were all about waifus and husbandos. Max cringe all the time.

captain_krunch a spoiler doesn't have to be accurate, since even a wrong spoiler would do the trick since you'll know those won't have any chance of happening anymore. If the comment section of your novels is toxic, better just skip through them. It won't change whether it's sorted different.

Eliza_Thornberry If the spoiler is in the top 3 comments at the end of a chapter, you may scroll too far when reading the last paragraph of the chapter and accidentally read it. Even if you avoided that, you still have to scroll past them to get to the next chapter or to see the voting button. If the comment is a long one, it's easy not to read it when scrolling. But if it's short like "I saw the raws, [name] dies in 5 chapters," then the chance of accidentally reading it is higher.

Eliza_Thornberry Hmm.. That was what I did before actually. I skip the comments on these novels with spoilers. The problem right now is, in the app, the top three liked comments were shown after every chapter so you can't skip it. :( And yes, others actually liked those spoiler comments so they were on the top.

So, like what captain_krunch suggested in the first post here, there should be a way to report that these comments were spoilers and maybe, hide the spoiler comments like what they can do in the reviews. :)

DazzlingGem 0is there a new update? I'm still using the version a few months back so the comments were automatically hidden.

captain_krunch everyone has a part on that, since a lot of people liked it. Also there's no such thing as an MC dying on Chinese LNs, so that's definitely a troll. XD

Yes, those comments shouldn't be liked. But they are. And, well, some readers like reading spoilers and even actively ask for them so it's not that surprising that they make the top comments

maybe you should read the chapter before looking at comments, but hey, that's just my opinion

i did read, i understood wrong then, hmm...in that case it is a valid point, i rarely go to the comment section, but if this is what is happening it's no good, you shouldn't spoil people

The tops comments at the end of the chapter feels like a bad attempt to follow Line Webtoon's style.

Just switch back to old style, it was perfect. Clear, clean letters and dark black background without any comments after chapters made reading here a great experience. Now suddenly we get grey washed out background with dim letters and random comments no one wants to see while binge reading.

Why fix what's not broken, at least give an option to switch back instead of forcing everyone into this abomination.

@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL if you've not seen the first thread posted about this please see this one. would greatly appreciate this feature removed or made optional. the new comments section at the bottom of the chapters is problematic. its distracting and unpleasant for readers, as well as unnecessarily messy.

Or just add an option to auto hide top comments. It's seriously annoying when your binge reading and your immersion gets completely interrupted because your eyes started to read the comments automatically.

captain_krunch Yes please

Oh yeah, if you want to view comments then just disable cosmetic filtering in ublock, and you can view comments like normal.

It’s basically

IVIemories you're my hero. i want you to know that. you're my g.d. hero!

Mzku Ha ha no worries man, I was getting pretty annoyed with the comments myself since I binge read a lot.

Just note that if webnovel ever changes the name of the element you will have to find the new name and block the element again.

If I wanted to read the comments I would have the comments section up to read them.

Spoiler or not, it's just annoying. Personally time to time i even look up to comment section and join the fun & fool around a bit but the thing is you just don't want that all the time. I don't want to see messed up comments when story started to heat up. I don't want to see people's salty comments about author or story which i just enjoy.
So you can either use adblock and block the comment section, or if you don't want to use external add-ons you can just read at other sites. (which i started to do later)

IVIemories Thank you very much, I used your suggestion and it works extremely well. It only sucks occasionally since I sometimes want to read the comments so constantly toggling back and forth can get a bit frustrating. (It would have been perfect if only the view comment button was left on the page.)

Honyakusha Same here ._. , sometimes I'm really enjoying a story then the comments reveal all the 'errors' in the story which makes me enjoy it less, (ruins the flow) really fking irritating.

Ugh, I just got spoiled again and was going to make a thread requesting this. I guess webnovel just doesn’t care enough to do it