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I'm mind blown, i knew this site had a rep for deleting reviews in the past but i just though it was the managers of the site deleting troll reviews which is kinda fine, but to give that power to author's of their own novels are just crazy. I left a 2 star review on "The System of a Vampire" and was baffled how the story could have a 4.4 star rating when in all honesty it was about the worst thing i have read on this site. But had to wonder no more when i got the message "Your review was deleted by the author". How can this even be a thing sure author's should to be allowed to report reviews so someone in charge can take a look it and see if it's just a troll review. But to allow the author to just straight out delete it is probably the most messed up review system i have ever seen and just makes this site look bad. Authors should never be in control of the reviews for their own novels.

    rainbowcrub

    That's not even remotely the worst part of the system.

    Just make an experiement and publish a dummy story. Then try to find out how many five star reviews you can give to yourself -- per week...

    Yet new authors trying to find honest criticism rarely ever get theirs reviewed or have to fight to get them.

    There are some author-sans that do that? I don't even dare delete a single review on my novel be it good or bad. Rather, I hope there will be more reviews. The struggle is hard maintaining a high review rate.

    Shame on those who delete all bad reviews and get a higher star rating than me!

      To make a story short....just delete the review option on every novel, so no more complain like this...hahaha...just kidding!

      I've also seen people use multiple accounts to leave reviews on their own stories or have asked friends to do so in order to falsely elevate their ratings instead of leaving honest reviews.

      While this is definitely unscrupulous behavior, I believe the authors should still have the write to delete pointless spam or harassment posts. In fact, I think it'd be great if Webnovel removed some of those posts on the translated series, too. If I want to read decent reviews for a translated Webnovel series, I have to rely Novel Updates, which is a different site altogether. This isn't an option for original series.

      As faulty as this site may be, this is the only place I've been to so far where I can get some honest feedback for my novel. In fact, the only review I've ever deleted was one that left me a bunch of junk as comments. It was a high score too, but that didn't matter cause I had no idea why they gave me that score.

      I guess writing my novel for fun, rather than any kind of recognition on this site, makes me not care so much about people abusing the system.

        I think the ability to delete a review by an author is good. If it violates the rules for using the site. That is, the summary contains insults from the author, the use of Internet slang of an offensive nature, trolling. Another thing is if this is a real classic review, which is given more or less objectively, the criticism in it is constructive. But not custom, black PR.

        But where to find an objective reader? One may not like the syllable, another chauvinist of perfect English grammar, the third just wants to have fun giving 1 or 2 star reviews, the fourth just does not like the genre, the fifth believes that this novel is rubbish and he as a reader is the ultimate truth. Where is the objective assessment of the reader as a reviewer?

        Also of course they strain the review, of the same “Nick” - August 21, August 21, August 34, August 48 ... damn how many these months ... and everyone writes the same rects or emojis put and 5 or 1 star reviews. It might make sense to prohibit re-reviewing one nickname novel. But probably it would be worthwhile to put the ability to edit the review itself. If the work is corrected, then increase the rating, and if it worsens, lower it.

        The rating system on no literary website was effective enough to evaluate the real quality of the novel.

        Therefore, as I see two ways - the first one hopes that the administration will listen to the wishes of the authors and readers and somehow change the state of things. And the second one just does not bathe about this, but simply read or write. Without imposing your opinion if it is not argued by other readers or writers. This is your choice.

        Personally, I don’t like it when under the same piece are the same nicknames, this is not fair. But in terms of unfair competition, is this practice likely the norm?

        It's not sporty, but it works ... alas, it works ...

        Yeah, I mean, I just received a review from someone called Vandal300 telling me to delete my story because he was complaining about "the MC being too beta" (what does beta even mean? A stupid term that so-called "alpha" males cooked up to push their "masculine" values onto others and so that they can mock "betas" whenever the male protagonist shows respect for women).

        So readers and reviewers can tell writers to delete their stories, but writers are not allowed to remove reviews? Sounds fair.

        Inadequate reviewers delete this normally. I do not see any tragedy for world literature here. If you want objective assessments, make a transparent system of requirements, assessment of criteria, and still get a subjective assessment. You need to understand that the reviewer, when he is rude, he ceases to be a reader and reviewer, he turns into a troll, whose review removes this rule of good taste.

        6 months later
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