The_Good_Devil They are not Webnovel bots. They are spambots from scrapper sites.
Spirity Bots: The Hidden Scariness
Tomoyuki what exactly are scrapper sites can you pls explain.
ThePotatoKing Sites that steal the novels from here and post them for free on pirate sites. They are called scrapper bots because those bots scrap the fresh content (my own chapters that are premium locked are stolen within 5s)
MotivatedSloth the scary part is that those site seem to be increasing
thetinman You might find it strange, but the more sites like that there is, the better. Not only does it increases the chances WN will do something about it, but also lessens the average income any of those fckers can get from ads
Overlord_Venus it sounds like some advance scrapper. Instead of silently scrapping it leaves comments to try to ensure more content to scrap.
These scrapper and spambots need to be wiped from the face of this earth might do a "spambot & scrapper go to hell book" so they can scrap that with supportive comments to encourage more content on the matter.
odyssey101 so the only common element seems to be the time of occurrence.
Veronica8 Make it free to read, Make a patreon and you are covered, you are encouraging people not to pirate novels and at the same time you also make money by giving benefits and if you succeed, you could make more than what pirated sites are getting.
Seriously tho I think some people who are browsing these pirated sites maybe won't care since you know how piracy actually works but you never know, you may become a hero!
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Veronica8 also yeah, it seems to be one of those advanced scrappers, but i don't think they read responses so I wouldn't really call it "advanced scrappers" because all they do is make comments to make authors feel better while scraping the novel after that which I think it is an attempt of a "author distraction" as I would nickname it, but maybe they do get author responses, who knows really.
Just found my novels on lightnovelpdf.com... I saw many wpc entries there... see if yours is posted there or not...
Is there a way to stop it...
BooKyodai Unfortunately, no. You can add stuff in your story (at the end of your chapter), telling people that the original is on Webnovel. Don't use the author's note function because the scrappers won't copy that, write it as part of the actual chapter itself.
Apolion screamed as he died.
A/N: If you're reading this elsewhere other than Webnovel, you have been deceived! I am the writer, and I post only on Webnovel dot com. Please read my story on Webnovel instead of any other site!
Even one of my novels is listed over there!! I am surprised!! And I did not participate in any WPC with this novel...
Looks like they downloaded the novel and put it on their website!!
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Yup just found mine on another website.
Now i doubt webnovel itself, because i got many collection(32 to be exact) and powerstone as well, if there are bots who are doing this to scrap the content, then they are some advance freaks.
Despite that, due to this freaks I wrote some chapter working my butt off. And it broke me after knowing that nobody reading it and has just few comments.
Thanks for the info
Thanks for the info