Useless discussion since not everyone has the same preference. Even Harry Potter still has many haters not to mention the author in wn. Even if you said that book not worth it and give 1 or 2 star review. It still doesn't mean that book did not have any worth since many people are still willing to read it. And also why the readers always want to leave their low review even though the author delete it. Sometime the review even hurtful that the author stopped writing because of it and the readers did not even feel anything after destroying one author carrier or possibly his/her future.

As a reader who's spend thousands of dollars on this site deleting reviews just puts me off your story. Writers who delete reviews for the stats are the norm and I avoid them. Like the author of the vampire novel deleted a crap ton of negative reviews once his story started getting advertisements on the app and readers with different tastes started reading and didn't like it.

Tbh basically all the authors delete any real reviews that have criticism. I think it was a mistake giving authors the ability to delete all reviews at will. It should have been way more limited. Idk any of the top stories basically delete reviews. Only translations don't give a fuck unless they're fan translation the contrqct where they dont get commissions for chapters and instead get paid by coins spent.

I know there was a problem with readers bombing negative reviews before and author would spam bad reviews at each others stories before it was implemented but now it's like reading fake reviews on Amazon or the app store. Just makes me think those authors are pathetic.

    So, I am Crazy_Beast and this is an alt, as my name is already taken by someone.
    Honestly, I don't care to delete any reviews, even they are trash but I would when it spams.
    I can reply with trash reviews, but HOW THE HELL WILL I REACT TO SPAMS, this giving me no option to delete them.
    I am linient in exp comments, sometimes readers become mad for exp, and I can allow some but not a my every chapter, and only if he/she is a loyal reader, which I don't have yet.
    For swaps, I am pretty sure swaps are kinda shady.
    As a writer, I too take books to review, but before reviewing I read the first chapter, even if it's beyond my genre. As first chapters are important, but I am very sad why other authors don't do it.
    I would nt be asking for swaps if peeps review it, but most of our readers or my readers are lurkers, So I have to ask authors for swaps in the past, most of them are spams or random repeated lines, but some did give me an honest review.
    There are even some writers who don't want any criticism on WN, but rather in personal, so they can improve without affecting their book, but asa dumb writer, who is re writing his book for the third time, I like to show others the critisism, and also let them see that I worked hard to fix it.

      Depends on the content of the review. That's my answer! Senseless reviews without content, criticisms, or any value needs to be deleted. I do not really care about my ratings since there is no perfect novel. What I care is that for people to actually give insightful and constructive reviews no matter how much they hurt. The type of reviews where it really try to reach out to the author.

      If I am just reading emojis I might as well delete them!

      a month later

      Zetheryl I used to put real reviews that I'd write for ten plus minutes for. Then I put 1 stars and fives consisting of 'Horrible english' and 'good novel' with enough spaces to fill the character limit. Then I stopped all together. No use putting anything below a four and no point in adding to the spam of "EXP".

      It's not like I need exp inside this app.

        Zetheryl I used to put real reviews that I'd write for ten plus minutes for. Then I put 1 stars and fives consisting of 'Horrible english' and 'good novel' with enough spaces to fill the character limit. Then I stopped all together. No use putting anything below a four and no point in adding to the spam of "EXP".

        It's not like I need exp inside this app.

            a month later

            Yeah there's definitely authors out there straight up abusing this. I know one story in particular almost all negative reviews are deleted. But the 5 star reviews posted by the same people over and over stay up lol. I bet his story would drop almost below a 4 if he didn't prop it up.

            shelwyn Yeah negative reviews get deleted but the 5 star spams don't. It's especially not worth taking the time to write out a lengthy honest review when you know it's probably just going to be deleted.

              Michael_Ryman Ok so what about the authors deleting legitimate reviews? I read one story all the way to around chapter 800 and something changed in the story that completely ruined it. I left a genuine and honest review because I felt like other people would probably like to know before getting 800 chapters in. Came back awhile later and it's gone. Started looking and found that almost all reviews under 4 stars are deleted while all the 5 star spams are kept. The authors can and do abuse the system just as bad as anyone else.

                  I find that there are always more 5 stars spam reviews than 1 stars spam.

                  if you delete bad reviews because they don't contain any criticism or because they didn't read long enough, you should do the same with every good review. Because 5 stars means PPERFECTION, which I doubt people use correctly since people vote 5 stars for every novel that they barely like

                  Readers can delete reviews/comments too! Might not be as often, but it happens.

                  I had this...somewhat obsessive reader posting condescending comments on almost every chapter in my story (and many paragraphs), calling my protagonist gay and using homophobic slurs. Apparently there was one time he posted the same comment twice (or double posted), and I think he deleted one of them. Since I usually respond through Inkstone, I didn't know he deleted one of them, so I replied to the first one. He received the notification in his inbox (or so I guess) and saw that I was replying to a deleted comment.

                  Guess what happened? He copied and pasted one of his comments, ranting about how my protagonist is a beta cuck white knight, etc. and then claimed that I deleted his comment. I was like, I've never deleted any of your comments, what the f are you talking about? He then proceeded to point me toward the WRONG comment...only to embarrass himself by admitting that he thought I deleted his insulting comment about beta cucks and whatever (way to jump into conclusions) and thus he decided to "out" me by copying and pasting the deleted comment (which I didn't delete because I had never deleted any of his comments at all, and he found out too late). And then he proceeded to declare that he will continue trolling me after an insincere apology.

                  So I pointed out that maybe, just maybe he deleted a double-copied comment of his own, and then he fell silent after that. And not before he deleted his inflammatory review.

                  Yeah, Readers Can and Will Delete Reviews/Comments too.

                  4 months later

                  Yo gonna say it like it is this Dan fellow is an arrogant tosspot thats really just a mongrel among dogs. Iv ended up here down the rabbit hole of the internet and lets put it this way Ebay Amazon any other review system i believe is third party managed. I leave a shitty review on some resteraunt or a spam call company for legitimate reasons on google and theyre still up probably because they have no access to delete and theyre honest reviews. You want to be scammed on ebay with five star reviews buy an item then when something else is delivered put a warning 1 star review just to have it deleted its fucked up guys that this is what happens here. Nobody should be able to censor shit with a bias and yes troll reviews on chp 0 should be deleted by a moderator team same with those exp 5 stars. Just to point out that Dan your a fuckin idiot iv read this post and one other so far about you its ridiculous why you try to defend yourself when the evidence is there youve just made yourself look like an absolute tosspot. God forbid powers like these were ever given to any democrasy otherwise you would see someone like Putin only allow people to vote for him and noone else. Your really sick in the head man you really are petty and delusional if you believe half the crap you spout on here about people being trolls when your just aiming for a profit.

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