Apparently some authors are pathetic enough to delete negative reviews. What’s the point of the review system then if it’s fake? BesideS if they use the privilege scam it’s quite fair they get 1 star review for being unethical greedy scammer.

    Xenamurai Right, so just today someone left a review on my story telling me I should delete it because my protagonist is a "beta" (whatever that means). A couple of weeks ago, someone called my story garbage and told me to stop writing it without actually explaining why it's bad.

    So readers and reviewers can pressure me to delete my story with insults, but if I delete their reviews, I'm an unethical, greedy scammer. Sounds fair.

      Tomoyuki People troll or leave negative reviews, you still should’t fradulently set your rating higher by deleting the comments. I told some author the story is sexist because of a, and c and he/she liked the comment. Learn from that person.

        MinxMean Well then when I type the name the system should tell me it’s a duplicate.

          Xenamurai there's a clear difference between constructive criticism & plain insulting/trolling.

          constructive criticism = actually helps the author to improve.
          insults/trolls = do nothing but harass the author.

          there's nothing wrong in deleting spam or personal attacks on the author when they do nothing to contribute to an author's improvement of their writing.

          Xenamurai Yeah, well...most people tell me my story is garbage without telling me why. Should I learn from the author you mentioned and like their comments?
          Plus I never delete the negative reviews, I leave them there. Not sure why you accuse me of fradulently setting my rating higher by deleting the comments. I only did that for a story I deleted after receiving so much pressure from readers forcing and threatening to take action against me if I didn't delete it (and no, it's not the one you commented on) and I pretty much deleted all the reviews, regardless of positive or negative ratings.

            Tomoyuki Too true. I've seen quite a number of negative reviews that doesn't even explain why the story is bad. In my opinion, I think the authors has the right remove such comments and reviews. If the reader's reviews actually provides some well-thought out criticism and opinions about the story itself, then I don't see the reason why authors wouldn't leave negative reviews. Insults and trolling should have no place in review section, not unless they (readers) provide a clear reason as to why they did so in the review. For example, if the author of the story has a despicable personality. But that is just an example on my part. I'm not pointing at someone or anything.

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