How many times do you buy into the reviews of a 4-5 star story only to be massively disappointed?
If you're as jaded as a cop a year from retirement too; then this post is still your band wagon.
I'm not innocent but I have learnt to stop exp whor*ing to the detriment of others.
The system has never been perfect. However, the exp for review scheme has only succeeded in making a bad thing worse.
Go to any story right now and look at the reviews. I bet you that you will quickly find a 5 star review with no text. Just emojis. Or one character repeated over and over. Just until the 140 character limit is met.
So many cràp reviews are making the whole rating system redundant. You can only tell that a story is bad if it dips below 3stars, it's tough to distinguish the quality of any story between 4-5 stars because of flase review ratings.
I suggest a different system that incentivises quality reviews that would add to the user experience of this platform.
I don't have the best idea, but I want to get the ball rolling. Here's my suggestion:
You don't get 5 exp per review. You get 1 exp for each like that your review attracts. The more insightful and helpful reviews would be rewarded by the community on their merit. Note subsequent replies should not be rewarded the sane way.
The benefit to this method is that is that the better the reviews, the more long term gains the poster is set to receive. Also prospective readers get truer and fairer reflections on stories they are thinking of reading.
The implementation eludes me but Webnovel could make it so that after say 10 likes the exp is released to the reviewer, and then after 20 likes the next 10 exp is released, and so on.
Reviews that get 100 like could even get 10 ss.
Sorry for the whiny post. There are some absolute gems worth reading that authors and translators work their bútts off to provide. This dedication deserves way more than emoji reviews or some variation of 'dis iz gud zzzzzzzzzzz (insert 140 characters)'.
Our appreciation should be articulated and rewarded justly.