On those spirit stoned novels Web novel will find and delete some of the low star ratings on the reviews. I just want to know if this goes on with every novel and why? Why do this misleading buisness practice.
Web novel is deleting reviews
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ahm, if you don't know, authors can report or delete reviews. Try it. create a random novel, then go to its main page and write a review. Once it's posted, you'll see a delete option at the right side (web)
I hope they delete all low effort ones. Some people spam 1 star reviews on novels they dislike, on a daily basis, this causes the ratings to skew and discourages people from giving otherwise good novels a shot.
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Hyowha Objective evaluation rarely. who gives, subjective assessments will halt. 1 star can be from a hayter, 5 stars from a lazy user. How to realistically evaluate the novel? Just read it yourself! To get your vision! IMHO
Gourmet_DAO Yeah, actually for me the use of review is to judge whether people are reading it or not. If it's a novel with all many five stars but the review count is less than ten, hehe
Jiumu Not the fact that they read. Since there are dishonest methods, such as I will write a review to you, and you to me ... this is not an objective cheat ... not readily so to speak. Advertising - bring you a coin and you me. Some people write reviews just to gain experience. This is not a pure result of creativity... IMHO
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Hmm.. Well WN snuck in a nifty delete button on their website where you can delete reviews on your novel. If only they snuck this button into Inkstone, so we can delete the novel itself. I have two I want to delete... I digress.
I think this self destruct delete button is prone for massive abuse overload. I disagree with anyone but myself having the option to delete my review. [Edit: exception is if WN did this as it clearly violated T&C]
I certainly understand why they'd put one there. However, that is not the solution. Proper content control mechanisms and review criteria is.
Come on, no other social media site gives the author the button to delete someone else's opinion. It's not ethical.
I certainly agree that there should be a means to hide the review once flagged derogatory or in violation of terms and conditions. Or have a moderation approval system in Inkstone, where the review is published to a hidden cache first (like Blogger). The author has the right to publish the review to their book or keep it hidden.
Seriously, Just don't give an author "Imma gonna delete your presence from the face of my book because I can" button.
Veronica8 I like how you used social media as an analogy, very fitting.
Another note is why have a "pin" button for putting up reviews you like as well as a delete button? While pinning reviews is good for showing actually good reviews that are nice and that viewers might not see due to not looking at the last pages of reviews, I imagine an author could flush out the bad reviews "ethically" by just pinning. (I'm not sure how many can be pinned though.) Although this does seem to defeat the purpose of up-voting a review that was deemed good. With the 'negativity' of a delete button, there should be a down-vote button too.
In short, the pin and delete and lack of a down-vote button seem to suggest the perfect combination of ways to over-inflate novels. But oddly enough, I don't see this as necessary as the 1-star and 5-star spam seem to balance one another out pretty well. Or rather, the critical versus the high-praise reviews. I can't actually think of a novel where a review or handful of bad or critical reviews really affected the rating. At least, I consider anything above a 4 to be good and stay away from anything less than that.
Chryiss I can't actually think of a novel where a review or handful of bad or critical reviews really affected the rating.
I have. It was beyond brutal to the point of declaring ,"the Exp Sect has claimed this book".
As I've said before, I think the system needs proper content control checks (must be Level 3, read 80% of the book, not flagged for reported content...). I know it'll cost them to put something like this in place, and would require some ongoing support.
But this site really needs to showcase their quality more and reader verbatim is the way to do it without having to spend bucket loads on other qualitative measures.
In all honesty, the Webnovel brand needs to improve. It's still immature and being overshadowed by Wattpad. I guess that's why I'm here. I want to see this site and brand go the distance and have my fingers crossed they don't keel over.
Having a crappy review system is a ticket to an untimely grave. Who's to say Tencent doesn't pull the plug on this site because it's not attracting enough reader revenue to justify the cost of running it? All because the review system was crap. It will be a shame if that were to happen.
A proper review system is critical to the catalog, and a way to ensure there's a chance this doesn't happen.
Veronica8 You need a filter to cut off at the initial stage reviews that violate the rules for using the information platform. Secondly, we need a function to make a comment for other users except the author and to whom this review was sent (if it does not violate the rules) is hidden. Thirdly it would be great if you could remove the novel. I have one.
Fourthly, it would be nice if the staffs promptly respond to the authors' letters, if suddenly a novel without a reason becomes suddenly banned.
A lot of ideas ...
Gourmet_DAO agree.
Veronica8 Then should remove the task of gaining experience in writing reviews ... reviews of any ... maybe it makes sense to specify the requirements for writing reviews ... and not to miss the alphabetic characters and just the repetition of the same words from the very beginning, when publishing reviews ????
Gourmet_DAO Then, In exchange for the removed experience from reviewing, Where should they put it? 
Woebegone It is interestin question)))
I wonder if there is a level 7 in reality? What is the difference between level 6 and 5? What do experience points give? More stones?