Dan_Ryder so you lock someone out of the fundamental ability to express their views just because they are not paying for your work?
this is exactly why we need to get the god like power out of authors hand and give it to a responsible and sensible 3rd party.
you are failing to understand that you are not the product, if i leave a one star review it's for the novel not you.
And if the novel can't make me intrigued in 40+ chapters, why should i even bother to pay for it?
Dan_Ryder Hmm, i truly did enjoy your food with what little i was able to taste at that point. It had its problems, it wasn't a 5 star michelin, but it was still quite a good 4 star restaurant. Tho i couldn't even get to the point of forming any solid thoughts or giving a rating because i was only able to take a few bites when the owner suddenly started hovering over my table. The owner couldn't seem to be able to accept someone saying things he didn't approve of. Even comments that are made in passing between words. So somehow i was basically spat on by the restaurant owner about a dozen times out of nowhere as i was eating, just for daring to say anything. At least that's how it felt to be getting your dozen or so different comments being deleted one after another with the owner not even deigning an explanation. The owner was somehow adamant on hovering over my table and spit on my face every time i dare open my mouth, implying that i don't have a right to say anything and whatever i say is trash. (Now i understand that the owner thought that all my opinion is void to begin with since i was eating the free opening food he served. The free food he uses to attract people into his restaurant. They can only eat and shut up.) The owner was above talking to me. It felt like i was just seen as a cockroach he can crush with his spit. Just spit more and more as my whole face and the food is covered with it. And then when i snap and take all his spit and throw it back at him at the end, the owner was somehow baffled why i would do such a thing. Can you understand my side of things a bit better with this analogy then?
Dan_Ryder you are a massive hypocrite dude! I've just read the reviews on your work, you leave troll 5 star reviews while deleting anything below 4. they need to remove your godly power and suspend you for being such a puss that's incapable of accepting criticism.
Moe_Cyan_Pile that's what reviews are for dude, if your work looks like shit for the entirety of the free 40 chapters, then I'll tell everyone that it's shit.
btw dude I'm just using u as an example, i don't know you or your work, sorry if I'm being aggressive here.
Vyte they delete legit one/two star reviews while allowing spam/troll 5 star reviews. I've been saying it for years that they need to remove the daily exp for reviewing and remove authors power to delete review and hand it to a 3rd party to moderate.
Dan_Ryder nice dude! very nice.
calling people dog when you don't agree with them.
MiddleEastern Thanks for expressing your view.
I've personally never deleted one.
Veronica8 i was not talking about you personally, as i don't know you nor your work. and sorry if it seemed personal.
I'm just against allowing authors to delete reviews and webnovel should remove the ability.
I'm starting to see, from these conversations, that non-content feedback types (e.g spam, EXP gain types) might be okay for the chop.
Deleting genuine feedback on content is frowned upon since it doesn't give readers a healthy view point of other perspectives to the content. The verbatim becomes one-sided.
Then there's the deeper level of what is considered genuine feedback. Just saying, "absolute garbage story" or "love this story" doesn't seem to be a deep enough level for a review, but would be good enough for a comment.
My understanding of what I've noticed so far.
MiddleEastern All good. I sort of realized that but thought to add the line just in case.
You're good :grin:
N0xiety That's a funny analogy:)
N0xiety your analogy is funny, but sad too since it is true.
Entitled authors are rampant on this platform hence I do not trust the rating of any original story.
I also read the first chapter of the author's book you answered to and tbh it's just real bad spit and might contain viruses ;) It feels like a 10 year old kid is trying to convey that the protagonist is evil, real evil, like do you get it? he is evilest evil can get... like evil evil evil... and he thinks he is evil like all the time thinking he is evil and should become more evil so he can reign evil above all those evil, but who are not as evil as he is, since he is the most evil evil out there.
Sorry about that :D could not help to not make a little joke there.
Some writing style is just like punching you in the face, repeatedly, and since you tried telling the authors this fact once and they react with spite, get personal and insult you then just let it go. Let them stay the bad writer that they are, no need to give criticism or waste time on an ungrateful person.
There is so much more positive things you can do or nice people who you can work with or influence.
People will eventually realize that being overprotective of their writing is hurting themselves and getting fake compliments is actually hurting their growth, but when that time comes it might be to late and they fked it up too much already :D
Like those authors having "no time" to correct their weaknesses.
I've just started a thread about why deleting reviews(good or bad) is a bad practice.
https://forum.webnovel.com/d/40472-delete-my-review-hide-the-truth
check it out and give your onions.
MiddleEastern Check my onions and see if you like em.
Well, jokes aside, it's 99% a lost cause and you are wasting your time.
MiddleEastern do not waste your time on this, there have been enough people complaining about this practice for years and WN is not going to change it. Do not try to reason with authors who have a god complex and think every reader has to worship them, for they have graced us with their godly scripts to be passed on to generations to come.
In reality those are just self-centered poor creatures who want to earn some recognition and some bucks and since they are contracted now they delude themselves into thinking they will be the next JK Rowling or JRR Tolkien or whoever you want to name. In reality their writing is still subpar and they will be forgotten by 99% of the readers by next week. Since they do not even try to grow and better themselves they will remain stuck and become bitter by time.
In the end you should just read and support the novels you really like on this platform and leave the others alone. Support the work you like, not blindly supporting the author, and eventually some author on this platform, who is willing to work on themselves, will be able to produce something worth printing and will get their due recognition, but this will not happen to people who insult others, because they cannot receive any kind of criticism.
Veronica8 I agree, a 1 star review with "This is a shit novel" while they have read like 5 chapters should be deleted. I just don't see how feasible it is to have a third party take care of all those reviews like @MiddleEastern suggested. At least the author gets a notification and can delete it right away. I do agree that there should be no EXP for reviews anymore, that way only genuine readers will spend the time to write one.
RABBITICOL your onions are very important to me, give them up now!
I just got triggered when I saw the author like that, being a hypocrite. I know it's 100% a lost cause because people are dumb, the mob will read anything and webnovel have no reason to kick money.
chu_chan the reason that nothing changes is because of money, they still make a truck load of it each day, once we hit their bottom line which is their money flow they'll listen. Unfortunately for 10 people against the practice, a 1000 people don't care and support them.
MeriemR It is not about those 1star reviews.
What people are upset about is the 3.5 star review of several hundred words, written with care and written in good faith, that got deleted and on top sometimes also getting an insulting personal message.
The kind of author people are talking about who calls people a dog when he/she/it is not agreeing with you.
All this behavior just to boost their rating, which actually is not important at all, since what counts are the chapters being read, the rankings and the chapters being paid for, also gifts and support through patreon/kofi and the like.
