No, it did not.
And who decides that? All form of writing that you could do BEFORE translations became a thing were paid. Even if you went to the library, you were paying for the privilege of using those books with either your taxes or your membership. The only reason why people have the galls to claim that online novels should be free and donation financed, is because for a long time (just like subbed animes) no one could be bothered to control this grey area. That's what made you used to the fact that it was all free, but that doesn't mean it was legal and allowed in the first place.
Any form of entertainment HAS TO be paid for. Either with real money taken from hand to hand (like in circus, theatre or even swimming pool), by a membership (gym, some cinemas, television) or in form of taxes (said libraries, parks). Like stated above, reading is yet another form of entertainment that someone had to put his efforts to make available for people like you, meaning - they need to make money out of it.
Previously, some of the greatest books were free because people translating them knew that by pulling a great crowd to read it, some of them would donate. But they didn't have to pay royalties, hosting fees and all, so the overall cost of doing so was way lower, and they could make do with donation models.
Sorry boy, but you are not the one to decide that. People that produce the content has the sole right to decide whether their novels should be free or paid. And while I take your later claim that you written 4 novels, and honestly doubt that you could make anything if with them if you were to post them here, even when trusting you on this matter, it shows that while you are an writer, you are not an author, because you kept those novels to yourself.
It's like if I went to the school, told everyone that I graduated from the online course and if I were to teach I would be better than any teacher in said school. Guess what would happen? People would consider it as nothing but a silly joke.
The way in which you wrote this post only serves as another reason why I do not believe you could earn a dime from your writing here.
arcadian_mystic if one enjoys a novel they will donate as appreciation to it and the site.
Thats one business model that the content owners can adopt. As you are just the end-used of the content, you have no right to judge or blame.
arcadian_mystic i have written four books one is issekai, two are dungeon, and last one is scifi.
And you still don't know that "i" should be written as capital letter. Good luck trying to flaunt your fake achievments.
arcadian_mystic i have not published them as of yet nor released them any where i was considering to do it here, and although i could probably make decent money
No, you couldn't not. Thats fake pride, sorry to break it down to you. You are not special, like most of the people (including me) on this site or anywhere else. If you want your achievements to speak for you, you need to have them in the first place rather than guessing that you could get them because reasons.
Then good luck somewhere else, mate. No one is forcing you to do anything.
arcadian_mystic i realize a lot of people will say that one person not using this site to read is no big deal,
It's not a big deal. You can read of hundreds if not thousands of other sites. But if you read ANY of the content that is posted EXCLUSIVELY on this site, ANYWHERE else, you are just a scum that supports the pirates that STEAL other's hard work, rather than supporting the authors themselves.
Perfectly stated. Opinion. Nothing more, nothing less. Thank God we can have others correct how big of a portion in said "opinion" is nothing but a bunch of entitlement and guessing.
arcadian_mystic help others to not give to greedy places such as this and use a real and free site.
You mean, those pirate sites that does nothing but STEAL content, and deprive the authors of their income despite how little they already earn? Well, then you are the reason why a lot of good novels here are dropping. Guess what, not everyone is willing to spend HOURS to write DAY BY DAY only for 90% of his income to end up wasted on pirate sites. You seem to forget that stories are not randomly appearing. They are written. And if you support piracy, then you are the greatest cancer of the reading community.
Once again, you are not the one to decide that.
Overall, this post screams rant, proves that user has nothing to prove his claims so he creates his achievements in his head and is also most likely an active user of pirate sites. Do anyone need anything else to see how little his words matter?