SusshiRoll Because it is against the copyright of Webnovel? It harms the potential earnings of the author (as well as Webnovel)?
We have long moved away from the situation where translator takes all (in the case of Patreon and ad-revenue) from 2-3 years ago. The authors demand a portion of the pie, because they were the ones to created the content and they know how much translators can earn translating illegally (using Patreon), which can go as much as five-digit USD values a month.
CKtalon So how is the Spirit Stone given? Novels getting premiumed is that benefical to the author or the translator?
CKtalon if you want us to support the author. Why don't you just setup a patreon for the author?
SusshiRoll How do you ensure that there's no scam behind this matter? A unscrupulous translator can say that they set up one for the author, but doesn't send the money to the author. The author might not even know that this is happening.
Besides, Webnovel does deserve earning a cut of the earnings.
Paid Spirit Stones benefit author, translator, and Webnovel equally.
Reading these stuffs reminds of the Translator of Cult of the Sacred Runes, RDG who took some donations then disappeared all of a sudden. It's been a year already and this prequel of TDG has been dropped. somewhat out of topic, i suppose lol
Hope it is within a year bro, if not then just look for the mtl version, I'm sure comrademao will have it, if it's requested.
SusshiRoll most of the novels on this site are published by qidian, some of the authors even introduce themselves on these novels, they are all probably getting the standard cut for their publications. I mean some of them make bank doing this stuff, especially people like IET, he's probably one of the happiest ones, since his chapters are usually copy pasted to milk us of our SS. Anyone who Is reading SS knows what I mean.
CKtalon
Actually its pretty easy to fix that problem as the TL can just sign a contract with the author aand get the rights to TL it just like what WW,volare and other sites do
As ive said before WN aint special
It doesnthave any special needs that are different from anyone else
Just be honest with yourself
You know that WN is company thats after money and money only
Everything else is secondary so there is hella no way WN is gonna allow other sites to get into contracts with the authors and get TL rights
melonbread yeah, me too.. I've been waiting for ages as to when the story (Jun Jiuling) will be updated 
Gothic_Temptation The rights for a vast majority of Chinese web novels are with Webnovel, not the author. So any TL that wants to legally translate it for publication needs to go through Webnovel.
CKtalon
Thank you
You just proved my point
Gothic_Temptation So basically you are trying to say skip the middle man? That can cause trouble for both the author and translator since it is violating the publisher's copyright. The author will have more to lose on this matter if they are caught doing that. (Most authors would rather go the legitimate route then waste their efforts on a few hundred or thousand dollars a month).
CKtalon
Thats a nice crazy conclusion to jump to bro
Honestly are you even reading the responses that you are giving, i mean you are getting paid by qidian afterall so its obligatory for you to say this stuff
Gothic_Temptation
I have no idea what point of yours I proved.
I'm not paid by Qidian to say any of this. I'm paid solely for my translations. I'm just giving you logical reasons why such measures don't work. They used to work 1+ years ago, but things have changed greatly since then.
Even the Chinese government, along with lawyers, are paying attention to the development of this export of culture overseas (Patreon being one of them directly mentioned and screenshot during a speech by a lawyer during the recent Chinese Online Literature Conference), so a lot of things will now be further restrained.
I see politics... I was not expecting politics, arguing yes, politics no.
I could be wrong but isn’t this thread meant to be about how we can find out if a book is on hiatus and getting a hold of the necessary information? Particularly in regards to one novel in particular.
All i see is CKTalon attempting to patiently deal with many off topic questions, statements and overall negative criticism.
Almost like i walked into the wrong room.
CKtalon who said about the translator setting up the patreon. Have webnovel do it. If you believe webnovel is fair to the authors and translators have webnovel make the account and pay both sides. Why does webnovel deserve a share of the earning? They neither made the novel or translated it. Any translator can join any group and have their translated work put on there.
what is the percent share of the spirit stone?
SusshiRoll you're not serious right? facepalm
Kritiko not all dropped novels were dropped early, most of them were around 500+ already with around 200+ remaining chapters to translate.
SusshiRoll And why would Webnovel use Patreon for this? Also, donations and the like is just too unreliable as an income for anyone. Patreon earnings can be so high precisely because of advanced chapters (or paywalls). Furthermore there's now gifting which goes to all three parties again, so there's no reason to add Patreon into the mix.
They are the ones hosting the work, creating the business model, strategizing with partners, hiring translators (taking the risk of losing money translating all these works), contracting with the authors, grooming the authors, managing their content to better the interests of the authors, etc. All of these are reasons for Webnovel to get a cut too.
Authors, Translators, and Webnovel share the Spirit Stones equally percentage-wise.
