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I've had a fair number of my reviews deleted. They are solid reviews presenting aspects for each and every star.

At first I thought: 'This is the author removing everything that's not a five star review. Bloody idiot!"

I sure some are, bloody idiots that is, but there are probably another reason to delete a review.

An honest review pointing out weaknesses, say a 3.5 star review, simply becomes obsolete half a year later if the author acted on the pointers, rewrote earlier chapter and overall kept up the new and improved standards. In that case that once honest review becomes false.

StenDuring Agreed heartily.

Though I do doubt of the latter case ever truly happening, to any large degree at least, because just from observation, writers don’t edit entire stories in order to make significant improvements. Writing here on WN is fast-paced, so writers are more likely to start a new story instead of honing a finished story like an author who’s looking to traditionally publish might. Few people are both interested to both improve and edit a story in its entirety. Sure, lots might claim that, and I do honestly believe they meant it. But they just never got around to actually fulfilling it in its completion. I could name those that do (of ppl and stories that I know) on one hand.

So in that case, I hardly doubt your good reviews fell into the latter scenario. At one point, back during my review swap days, I was convinced I’d someday see a StenDuring review on every original book. (jk, but that would be nice, for readers and writers, maybe not you lol)

Tomoyuki
While the comment is directed at you, the accusation isn't really directed at you. It is directed at all authors who think that deleting 1 star reviews is justified because 'they aren't fair' while keeping all their ridiculous 5 star reviews. I'm just making a statement of my point of view. In my eyes, those authors are just hypocrites, and i'm quite annoyed with them tbh. There is no need for you to take it personally tho, unless you are doing the same thing. You say you don't, so good for you. I will take your word for it, but most aren't like you. I don't know you or your novels, but thanks for having integrity.

I rewrote the novel 4 times. But it still contains errors. need to rewrite it 5 times. Cut a lot. But I do not think that after his 5 rewriting, the novel will be read more. Such a tradition on WebNovel. The main thing here is to write more, even raw materials, publish 3500 words a day. Well, they wrote about this in another forum thread "How to collect a million views in a couple of months."

As builders say with us - to buy materials and do the work for money. Here, too, because quality does not always mean a large number of collections and views.

Chryiss

Peculiar. I received a number of "WTF" reactions from people reviewing my main. If the "WTF" from different people concerns the same thing I need to take a good look at that something.

In the end I totally rewrote some parts to fix what was obviously an error from my side. At the other hand I kept other parts since they were an integrated part of my storytelling (no I would never have written them if I wrote the story from scratch today).

Now I've chosen to let those reviews stay. They're a reminder of what I had to fix, but I can understand a reader reading those reviews scratching his/her head since the funny crap they're pointing at is long since gone.

MotivatedSloth You say like the authors don't troll in the opposite direction. Deleting any bad reviews while jumping on dupe accounts and continuously giving themselves 5 stars with nothing in the review but smiley faces or exp repeated. It's a crap system because current mod's "don't have the time" to review every report of potential trolling and Qi doesn't want to spend the extra money on a moderator whose only job would be that so they give the power to the author and as such some abuse to the max.

With this being said a 1 star review to try and even out the false positives, while a poor attempt ethically speaking, is "justified." In such an unbalanced system, with so few options, and the inattention of the admins, people will use what's available even if it doesn't seem "proper."

The_Unholy_One not all authors but personal feelings can play a factor such that even if you give a relevant review it'll still be deleted because they might be too sensitive or because your previous reviews might have seemed like trolling so just seeing your ID could be grounds for them to delete your review.

Of I know some do abuse this unbalanced system, like the author of Dual Cultivation, who will delete anything under 4 stars. With things as they are sometimes you just have to "shake it off and walk away."

Interesting thread. My criteria for deletion is simple.

If your review contains one of the following;

1. Insults
2. Slander
3. Misinformation

I'll normally reply to inform you of your infractions and then take a screenshot for both you and myself.

Then, poof, it's gone. You're free to make a second one with whatever rating you want as long as it doesn't breach these terms.