Gourmet_DAO I think your readers appreciate you for that. :) I followed an author on different site when they could not cope here and trully your readers is someone you want to keep close. ;)
I will check out your books later. I hope it is in a genre i like. 😊

By the way, level 7? 6? Let me reach 5 and we will see! Is it sth worth fighting for? 😅 And no, more energy and power stones do not exactly cut it for me. Well power stones maybe, i have a couple of novels that need a boost. 😂 Mmm. yeah. Still no. 😅 I feel kind of a troll now. Apologies.

On a serious note, although stars are important to a novel, they do not fool longtime users or people that will invest long term. They can only help with the trafic. Maybe a new system could be implamented in recommenting or ranking *. Like by how many of the visitor-readers the novel had actually stayed. As presentage though, and only active accounts. It would be interesting. Oh yeah, completed novels stay out of this, and translated ones separate of course.

*I often follow other readers' suggestions so i am not sure what system there is now - i never visit the rankings.

      NightGale35 But my content is interesting, but here's one problem, English is not my native language, it is a third language. I check on three machine editors, but there will be errors. Besides, now I am lazy. Not updating.

      Nevertheless, thanks if you come, I will be glad even for a short visit :)

          Gourmet_DAO For a moment i thought you will say that you are not writing in english! Now that would be a problem.
          I have read multiple MTL that make google-translate seem perfect! 🤣🤣 I am trained. Not my first language either. And i shows. ;) If sth is too obvious it can be pointed out nicely. Generally as long as there is flow, you impove and fix mistakes that make the sentence not making sense, i believe most people are fine- if the story is good of course. Don't put yourself down!

              NightGale35 Well, usually everyone speaks a second language better than a third. It's just that when a novel is read by native speakers, they treat the text in a snobbish way. Well, or so it seems to me, without even reading the novels, they give 3 stars, not at all evaluating the plot, only paying attention to the grammar.

              As an author, I want to share a story, it is interesting to me, besides it is useful, all stories have rich material. This is realistic.

              Therefore, thinking that suddenly, or maybe my reader, will have English as a mother tongue, starting to read my novel, he will say what a horror! This is not my cup of tea, what awful English. Therefore, I wrote ahead of the curve that this is not my native language :)

              And wait for my English to improve ... it will take a long time. Since while I am writing, I am improving my English a little bit while writing the text.

              I wanted to give one of the novels to be edited, but it is expensive, an 80,000 word novel will cost a couple of thousand US dollars. It's impossible. And I don’t want to make money writing, this is just a hobby.

              I write because it's fun, interesting, pleasant to communicate with readers, to improve my text block. Grow up as a novelist.

                  Gourmet_DAO That is novel. :)
                  Your english is fine, really. I haven't read far -not the best time of the day for the subject- as you may notice later, but there is flow.. and ridginess. You can improve steadily. I am not sure if you write novels in your first language but if you don't, keep in mind that this is double the effort. You learn the language and try to express your thoughts in order to convey them correctly to a foreign person. These are two indivually hard things that you do together. Keep it up!

                      N0xiety thanks for expressing your view. As long as you're not focusing it on a person or using one particular individual as a case example, it's all good.

                        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.

                          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?

                            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.

                                    Smh, the last spamming troll shows up! Now, this thread has devolved into a witch hunt.
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                                    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.

                                      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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