Tomoyuki He's not an author.
Constructive criticism good or bad
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MaxwellKHA I am not an author either.
He did write a book called Small Stories or something, though. Just to get a badge.
Tomoyuki Yes you are. And a contracted one too. You're better than the other author in here in terms of status.
FunnyBuns I write stories of terrible quality. That does not give me the right to call myself an author. Just look at the 2.9 rating for my story.
Most readers have advised me to quit writing, and they tell me I should never be an author, that I should give up and stop polluting the site with my rubbish. Must be great to have all that freedom of speech, eh?
Tomoyuki Well, better tell that 500 fans of yours that is paying for your story the same thing.
MaxwellKHA But I don't have 500 fans paying for my story? Where did you get that from?
Tomoyuki You have Tomo, You have.
Tomoyuki This is proof you have a confirmation bias as you have completely ignored like half the stuff I wrote by saying I haven't looked at it from the author's perspective. If you've looked up what confirmation bias is by now(I hope you have because if you haven't then you are incompetent on top of having a confirmation bias), you'd realize that by ignoring half of what I said to confirm your own personal beliefs as true. I've constantly said both parties are in the wrong, meaning I'm defending the author as the reader could have stopped, but unlike you, I'm also seeing it from a reader's perspective.
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FunnyBuns I could throw back the same thing to you. I said I don't agree with what the writer does either. I said I think it's dishonest. I even sympathized with the guy reposting his review. But I said that does not justify harassment. And what exactly do you think are my personal beliefs? That harassment is harassment?
You have completely ignored not just what I said, but also what Kazesenken and LostInFiction said. And you accuse other people of having confirmation bias or incompetent. How rich.
MaxwellKHA Interesting. But I don't even earn anything, my income has been less than $10 a month, not counting MGS.
Not that I care, I tell everyone to use Fast Passes for my story anyway.
So, why does it matter if I'm an author? If anything, I'm pretty new at writing. I honestly don't care about deleting comments, and have never deleted any of my reviews. Why? Because I honestly don't care.
What have I posted here? Simply, a deconstruction of the 'logic' that has been proposed. It is up to others to decide if the points you make are valid or not. All I can say is that you are attempting to police a system that you are unhappy with, saying that WN and everyone should align to your views. And when they don't, you get triggered.
Honestly, Tomoyuki and GrandElderO, stop trying to convince each other as neither one of you are starting to make sense anymore. You are making mountains out of molehills.
It's not us that decides what happens but the community.
Tomoyuki I don't know how fast passes work, but 3000 contribution is certainly from a legit user. Maybe it doesn't directly translate to your income, but hey, someone is paying for your story.
MaxwellKHA Oh, well...I will be grateful to whoever that is.
kazesenken Yeah you have a point, why are people trying to police a system by saying shit like it is wrong to repost or someone doesn't have the right to do it. I'm just saying common sense and common knowledge stuff while so many people are here trying to tell me that someone doesn't have a right they obviously have.
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FunnyBuns No one is talking about rights.
Again. LostInFictions is appealing for empathy. She is not saying, "you have no right to repost if an author has deleted your review!" She is saying, "please be understanding, if the author deleted your review, he/she probably has a reason. Maybe it's depression, maybe it's his/her mood. Please be kind and compassionate, and leave it at that."
Nothing to do with silencing. Certainly nothing to do with rights.
Me, I'm just pointing out that you achieve nothing by reposting other than making the author annoyed, and if you keep spamming no matter how many times he/she deleted, it basically becomes harassment. In fact, why waste your time on reposting your review if you know the author is going to delete it? He/she has already read your review, what more do you want? What are you trying to achieve, other than making everyone unhappy? If I were you (and trust me, I have read a lot), I would just move on. I would drop the story (if I haven't already), and look for something else to read. Why would I waste my time with this guy/girl? No matter how upset I am, that doesn't justify harassing him/her. Also, true story. There are authors who reported readers for harassment (basically spamming the same comment over and over again) and got them banned. So Webnovel does take a clear stance on what they think constitutes as harassment.
Nobody is talking about how nobody has the "right" to repost. Everyone here is pointing out the ethics of writing reviews and letting it go when it's clear there is no good that comes out of harassing or spamming the same review over and over again just because the author deletes it.
And you call other people "biased," "childish" or "incompetent." Right.