Gourmet_DAO The only reason I wanted to reach level 6 because I thought that It's cool. 
But level 5 and 6 are the same so I guess, Level 5 will do for me.
Web novel is deleting reviews
Woebegone Clear! Does not level 7 mean in principle? But on reaching level 6 a mythical figure appeared, saying if you dial 22,800 points of experience, there will be a transition to a new level ... this is marketing nothing more))))))))))))))
Woebegone And what do experience points give? Can I read more chapters without paying stones? More stones? What is the general meaning of these experience points and banners? Do they allow you to enter some other level of access to closed chapters? Are there any practical benefits from them?
Gourmet_DAO itās fun. Thatās it. Itās like asking people why they collect marbles. Itās fun, and my self-diagnosed OCD tells me to do it
Gourmet_DAO I see your opinion, and I will tell you: there simply is not enough time (which I at least consider valuable) to read all books and form an opinion on them by myself. That is the reason why I reach for reviews.
Thus, as an author myself, I can see how aggravating it can be to see a 1 star review as it brings down your score, making you receive less viewers and generally makes your book less read. However, every time someone brings that topic up (1 star reviews ruin the review section), they will have to deal with people commenting āhurr dur, what about nonsensical 5 star reviews thenā, so I believe if getting rid of nonsensical 5 star reviews will also get rid of 1 star reviews, then I think it is a necessary evil (or good, for that matter).
Also, as to how all reviews are subjective: we all know, some reviews are better than others. Theres no need to pretend this isnāt the case. Not all reviews are equal. There is no slippery slope in which deleting one review may lead to deleting other reviews. It is like saying, āI donāt give my child candy, because what if he one day starts to do crack?ā
The boundaries are well established. If you donāt understand, hereās an example=
āI hate this I hate this I hate this. 1 star.ā Is spam.
āI believe this novel is not up to par because of [ā¦]ā Is a constructive review. The difference is night and day.
Hyowha just collect mushrooms in the forest, beautiful pebbles in the river, look at the fall of momiji flowers or admire the moon or cherry blossoms? Something from this song?
Hyowha Here you are right ... if you scold someone, you have to say for what ...
Reviews are too unreliable. One likes to troll, others get reviews on the principle you write to me and I tell you. No one reads. Therefore, I have stopped reading reviews of the last three months.
1 star and 5 star .. this is from the fact that the system of writing reviews is not perfect. This review is work. And not just blah blah blah.
In literature, there are always forphiles and contentfiles ...
One does not like the form and bad English, others do not like good English and empty content. Well, all the markers have a different color.
You can blame the work, but do not have to go over the personality of the author, while respecting network ethics. And so it is your right to put 1,2,3,4,5 stars
Gourmet_DAO None, but collecting experience is fun. I want to see my level slowly going up until the very peak or Max level as they says. I do it for self-satisfaction and not for benefits.
Woebegone That is, you want to go all the way and drink the whole cup of water, see what's at the end of the road?
Successes!
Gourmet_DAO I definitely agree with separating an author from his work. Unfortunately, not everyone manages to do that. You are right, as said before, reviews are subjective, just like the works they are reviewing. However, that subjectiveness counts only if there is a valid example+explanation. A review (or anything really) without proper explanation for why it is the way it ism is simply not qualified for a review. That is what I believe. You will also see people defending theirs nonsensical reviews by saying āit is just my opinionā but having an opinion does not make you immune to criticism.
Just as a book can be critized so can a review. And thankfully, we all are human, and should have respectable mods which can separate spam from constructive criticism. And then maybe we can also have people seeing reviews and scores as a legitimate source for recommendations,
Woebegone Not initially my idea, I think it was StenDuring, but a like or comment on a review could be exp instead. This sounds good to me. Itās basically the same as exp comments in the actual story. While I donāt really care for the xp comments, might as well do the same for reviews. I think just liking reviews or comments would be best though. Or maybe have the option of either.
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If the situation with 1 and 5 star reviews can be changed, it is possible only by - gingerbread and knout
That is, if 1 star is given without an objective explanation. then you need to subtract user experience points. Same for 5 stars.
The rating of the novel is the same "fair" game. If there is a group of promotion, left accounts, then please, this is like Hirsch citation indices ... there would be your own people, and you can still wind up a rating.
for quality reviews give for example 10 SS.
But you need to be simpler, it's just a game ... by cheating a rating, a game of the mind, using interesting marketing moves and all sorts of advertisements.
Although it is more interesting to play āGoā ... well, everyone has their own hobbies, everyone has the right to engage in the kind of hobby that they like if it does not violate the rules of the game.
Hyowha It's not a slippery slope, true. It's a cliff. No author should be able to delete reviews. So long as that "feature" exists, the entire review system is pointless and should be scrapped. As for nonsensical 5 star reviews, I was undee the impression the star system was for translation quality. If that is the case, then both 1 and 5 star reviews should be common...just not on the same chapter.
Maekellen Yes that was not what i was arguing. I most certainly agree that adding a delete function will be abused by authors and is generally a bad idea. The topic of my discussion was about whether nonsensical 5 star reviews should be deleted if nonsensical 1 star reviews are deleted too, nothing more, nothing less.
Hyowha If reviews are to be deleted for any reason other than duplication or language concerns (which wouldn't exist if it's a pure star system) then the review feature should simply be disabled. Even "obvious trolls" are not always intentionally trolling. We cannot know for certain their reasons. Admittedly, often it is so transparent we can think of no other reason, but we still cannot be certain.
Chryiss I'm incline to say scrap the EXP gifting for verbatim altogether.
May work for KFC food surveys where you score free chips after saying what you think.
Books are different. Readers will say what they think if they're passionate enough anyway.
EXP is better used to entice spend. Example is buy 5 chapters gain exp points to a special exclusive bonus only available via exp points. It'll be another form of currency that is only gifted on actual spend. Reaching a level could mean you receive early releases or discounts.
I think more, keep the review system without reward. Unlocked once a Reader has read %80 of the book.
20 days later
I just posted a review on an original novel like a day ago. It was a blunt review. I gave her like an average of 2 stars. And I just opened my WN app and saw two responses to my review. One was from the author and the other, her top fan or maybe a friend. The fan went all defensive and rage-y when I literally didnāt even attack the author personally, just criticized the novel. The author was quick to jump in at being defensive. I agree that some authors have been abusing the delete review thingy. Smh. You canāt even get honest reviews these days. I was wondering why I couldnāt see a single negative review there lmao. Her other novel is the same case. cringes
8 days later
Just want to point out that one of my reviews (3.5 stars) was deleted twice. It was neutral, focused on facts and had some of my personal suggestions for the author to improve his work after reading all the free chapters. Thought it was a mistake/bug so I reposted the exact same review. (Had it in a word file for spell checking)
It was gone again one or two days later, this time even all the related notifications (when users liked it or responded) were removed. The novel, which I am not going to name here, has now not a single review with less than 4 stars and has improved it's ranking by a 0,5-0,8.
Not sure who is responsible for deleting my reviews, but by now I am getting really frustrated. I get that troll reviews can be a problem, (both 1 star AND 5 star), but what I experienced feels like blatant review score manipulation by either the author or the website.
A lil late, but... I can delete comments on my blog. Not really reviews, but, well...