Yes Authors Can and Will Delete Reviews/Comments - Open Sounding Board
NightGale35 Thank! Writing in English is fun! I wrote in a second language but only short stories and two stories about the Great Game, spies, during the 19th century, in particular about Stoggart and O'Connolly 1843. Then I tried to translate and wrote a short story in English.
But my genres are fictitious reality, fictitious history, adventures.
History of the Silk Road
Treasure hunt, almost real, but a little muddied with fiction.
Well, about the farm and cooking.
JohnnyKbca I respect your voice of your experience. Just note that this isn't the thread to highlight any particular experience.
I would like to point out that the moderation option is important for a review. At least to highlight the obvious trolls and those who are engaged in bullying. With good moderation on the site, when the rules are followed, then there will be no problems with insults and the creative activity of writers will not be broken. It is possible that in the forum, you need to have a moderator who, when contacting him, would respond to such a message within 5 working days.
On the subject of quantity and posting the same review to the same book more than once. Personally I couldn't be bothered.
It doesn't bother me if my comment or review was deleted. I know it was read and noted and that's enough for me. My book review was an impression I gave the writer. What they do with that impression is up to them. If they want to delete it, so be it delete it. No skin off my back.
This is my view on writer retaining feedback.
So why do peeps post the same book review again once it's deleted the first time?
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Veronica8 Human nature is difficult to understand. Perhaps a sense of your own greatness? can there be dissatisfaction from an excess of emotions? who knows?
I got messages a couple of times. that quite normal 4 star reviews have been deleted, as well as my comments around 24. It's unpleasant, of course, that your work is so appreciated. But I'm not sure who deleted the review as there is no such feature right now. I can only guess. Well deleted, and deleted, I have no intention of coming. post over and over again, something.
All people are different. They think differently, they look at the world differently, they have different values, but personally I am not interested in this, I adhere to network ethics and I don’t care about who deleted my messages. This is his right, my right to ignore him.
Probably, the whole point is in the level of a person's perception, whether he adheres in real life - politeness, observance of moral norms, ethics or not. Since he can afford a politically correct, not tolerant opinion on the Internet, it means he is like that in real life. He or she.
I have a different culture, a different upbringing, I don't want to just offend people with words. Some people are atheists, others believe in something of their own, there are believers, all different.
It seems just that some people have the concept of "inner conscience" and they do not seek to offend strangers, to impose their vision of the world on them.
Communication, dialogue, allow people, if not to come to one opinion, then at least understand the other side and agree to a compromise, or simply disagree with each other with his own opinion. But without fighting, verbal diarrhea, swearing. Then nobody's mood will spoil.
In my faith there are concepts such as sin, it’s a sin to offend people, for this on the day of the last judgment, there is a possibility of going to hell. So why would people spoil their mood and harm themselves?
Politeness is better than rude.
We have a saying that rudeness hurts everything!
We live on the Silk Road. Therefore, we have a psychology of traders, merchants. And they will never be rude, then there will be no trade.
And in our history they traded with different peoples of three continents, so it was stupid to swear!
But of course, now globalization is taking its toll, many carry knives with them, there is little restraint, if they don’t like something, they can cut it with a knife. But this is also nonsense. People transfer the permissiveness of the virtual world to the real one. And they are wrong, ruining their lives. Politeness takes the city,
Veronica8 I think some automated moderation might help a little. Like no use of emojis, or no words repeated more than once, even though I have seen reviews with incoherent words that did not make any sense. I also thought there was a minimum word count but in the last couple of days I got 2 reviews (from the same person who changed their nickname) saying "EXP" that's it. Maybe the EXP system is the issue.
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Smh, the last spamming troll shows up! Now, this thread has devolved into a witch hunt.
If someone wants to post a 5 star to my novel for Exp why would I ever delete it? I'd probably gain an angry 1-star spammer in retaliation. Spamming trolls and their one-track minds smh.
Gourmet_DAO Very insightful. Yes, some good understandings noted. Thank you.
Dan_Ryder @N0xiety @JohnnyKbca
Thank you for sharing your views. You all have expressed some insightful and valid view points, which has highlighted what does and doesn't work well with Webnovel's review system. We've all faced some form of feedback dissatisfaction whether here or elsewhere. I think it's important to acknowledge your feelings of these feedbacks. Take the best from them and ditch what doesn't have any value or meaning to you.
And the last thing I want this thread to be is a witch hunt. However, if you choose to continue to draw out your grudges here. I can't stop you. Be aware that Yue-bot will likely shut this thread down if you do.
It'll be shame to lose this chance for other insightful understandings from others who share similar experiences to yourselves.
Veronica8 I can't speak for others, but I do it first because the review is there for the writer and also to any future readers; and second because, if I took the time to read a work and gave it my honest opinion, then it isn't right to stop me just because the writer didn't agree with it.
AriaKang If you don't have a fanbase it's almost impossible to get the 10 reviews on a new novel for a score. Readers don't use the forum, so authors have to band together to get reviews. My premium novel has over 100 paying readers, but only about 5% of them have ever left a review. That's how difficult it is to get a review.
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Veronica8 I apologize beforehand, but i have to give an answer to Dan. Also none of my comments are just for the author, they are also for other readers to read and comment on. At least that's how i see them. I throw it out there, author can read it, or not. Other readers can also read it, and like or comment on it. I actually mostly don't expect authors to even be able to see it because of the sheer ammount of comments the author gets. Even if it sounds like directed at the author, i mostly don't even expect the author to ever stumble upon it. It is good if the author does, but is also fine if he doesn't. If i want author to most definitely hear a thought of mine, i will reply to one of his comments, or i will just go to discord.
I also think that the disagreement between Dan and i is actually quite relevant to this topic is it not? Please do rate this comment of mine if you can. I ask others here too, please do rate it. We are after all partly talking about delete worthy comments here is it not? If we can't give examples, how can we do that?
This was a paragraph comment btw, not even in the comment section. And the reason i spammed this like 5 times is because Dan deleted it without care in the first place. I know that you don't want to take sides, but you can tell your thoughts on this comment objectively without taking any sides right? Just as an example. It should be fine to share my first hand experiences in this topic i assume? I know that i was being a tiny bit sarcastic towards the end, but was it really delete worthy?
I don't claim to be a saint or something, and i do have way worse comments compared to this in other novels. Some may even truly warrant a delete actually, one can write hurtful things when angry, tho was this particular comment really bad enough to warrant a delete?
And for you Dan_Ryder you very well know the reason why i spammed this comment. And i hope you can guess why i was obviously pissed. It isn't nice when your comments are being deleted one after another without any care. You haven't even dained a reply, just delete and move on. If you don't care about my view, ok fine, just leave my comment alone. Maybe other readers will agree or disagree, it is not just up to you. But i guess that's what i am to you, a bug you can just crush because you have all the power and you don't care about my views. But i refuse to be silenced, so my only choice was to spam it like 5 or so times as you delete each time quickly, and i gave up the stupid game bewteen us after that...
Oh btw, you can post the other(my last comment to you) that i spammed as you delete it so everyone can see. Tho i already posted that comment in the other thread while dissing your actions, but you can post it here too. I obviously wrote it in anger, tho i believe even that wasn't anywhere close to being delete worthy...
In before @Dan_Ryder cries in a corner because someone gave a genuine review that was not 5 stars on his novel. #GrowSomeBalls #StopBeingSoChildish
TheSleepingTadpole What's childish is spamming someones novel because they delete your content. Like all the above trolls have done.
Uncle_Sheogorath Towel you two have valid points. I rescind. It may work for buying novels in the physical, but online I accede that it is much different. I do, however, think that it be an absolute requirement you at least get past chapters 1-10 before you can leave a review. Because if you are not giving it at least that much time, then you are not actually judging the story or getting a feel for it. You are just not liking their grammar, syntax, and flow. Which is fine, some people can get past poor grammar, others cannot? But if you can’t comment on the actual quality of the storyline because you have not given enough time to read through it. Then I honestly think those people shouldn’t be able to comment at all. If people are sitting there going, but what if I want to tell people it has poor grammar? Well, I think people can read how well the English language is used in a book themselves. I, personally, think that it doesn’t need to be noted on its own or pointed out by someone who only read a chapter or less. I think the ones who have invested lots of time can comment and note that if they would like to. So leaving a review after at least getting a bit of the story in first makes sense to me, but I do understand if others do not agree with my viewpoint, as we are all different after all. Anyway, I digress. Thank you guys for your kind explanations. hugs
Dan_Ryder please stop sending purposefully and vehement worded messages at the people who are just trying to show examples of what you are talking about. That is the very reason for this thread. Veronica8 and @yaoyueyi even said that they were unsure how long this thread could remain open before it descended into the chaos of accusatory replies. So I hope people can remember this is supposed to be a safe space for everyone.
AriaKang I would like to say, and I hope you understand and do not take an offense to what I am saying. But Authors have every right to go and read and review books on here too. Most people are authors because they share a love of reading. They also dream of traversing through original worlds all while being curled up in a ball, or splayed out under the blankets, but regardless still inside their own world here on earth. They live for the imagination and creativity they may or may not be brave enough themselves to release through writing. While others read to enjoy the prose and the evocation of feelings, one can experience because of the stark pages of someone else’s story. Please try to remember, before telling people to stop reading books, that Authors may be readers and were more often than not readers first.
Ah, anyway, have a great day guys.
Concerning certain people's actions...... we should be completely objective and not spew 'accusatory rude' words at each other especially without rightful evidence.
Removing the XP from leaving a review would eliminate 90% of the spam reviews. There is no reason why a single account would need to leave multiple reviews (rather then updating an existing one) for a book so I suggest limiting reviews to 1 per account per book. Also you should be able to contribute to a novel's score without having to leave a comment. 1 star contributing reviews should not be removed, though removing offensive comments themselves is okay. The only exception would be for obvious boting / multi-account from a single IP which should result in bans, not just review removals. At the time of the ban all reviews should also be automatically removed.
The categories for review stars are also bogus. I would suggest a standard ranking system with the subcategories eliminated entirely as the reader should determine what the weighting is rather then preset categories. If the novel is unreadable then that fact would weigh the highest when determining the score such that the other categories make no contribution. For translated novels the translation score should be entirely independent from the novel score so dissatisfaction can be correctly attributed for an otherwise good novel.
Example rating system:
(1 - Highly Not Recommended, 2 - Not Recommended, 3 - Satisfactory, 4 - Recommended, 5 - Highly Recommended)