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The system currently sucks. People give novels ratings based on cover art and without reading the novel at all. It needs to be changed so that reviews are actually based on the content of the novel. I don't think you should be able to review a novel before it is released or before having read at least 5 chapters. So many novels have skewed ratings because of the current system.

How about writing a good synopsis and putting more effort on cover art?

LordFatCat How would that affect the review system in any way?..

It should be impossible to do a review before the novel is published and it should also be impossible to do a review without having read at least 30 chapters.
Also, reviews that do not talk about the novel specifically should be removed.

Cytric 30 chapters is too much. Generally 5 chapters is enough in most cases.

Many reviews are useless. They didnt seriously read novel before but want some xp.

I see many reviews gave 5 star with a crap comment like "this novel is really good" or "I like this novel" blah blah blah...

It make over-rate reviews although some novels are really bad.

Yeah, people can give multiple good review just to bump the star.
But once you use it to bring down the star, it's a spam, your account are banned to comment, then your post is deleted.

ShouldBeStudying
Not always, some have plot twists, or they're the type of books to start gradually and get better and you go along. Maybe 30 is a lot, 20 or 15 seems more like it.

zerodissolver
Qidian system is skewed, people can give review as long they got id, no reading required, and multiple review is totally fine, as long its a good review.

+1

Cytric yeah.. pre review before the novel is release, should be done by the working translator and editor. And their review should be pinned at the top and swipe-able to save space.. as for the early reviews, it can be made that only readers with 5 chapters read, would be able to post them. This can be a good start for a better review system.

zerodissolver even at NU star set up is useless. reviews are helpful in cases where person lays out his reasoning and reactions. unfortunately many of reviews at NU do not do it. still better than here.

GregLuck I agree, my review never even appeared in the reviews. But thats not the only issue here. Comments are been deleted as well. I had a question concerning IRAS:
I asked a question in the comment section but it disappeared ( literrally deleted, I checked) only a couple of seconds later !!! So, I wanted to ask this to the translator : Is this STOLEN form wuxiaworld ? Cuz this novel has been on wuxia for a very long time... AND, the fact that wuxiaworld is a BANNED word on your website really doesn't help with the guilty look here...
The fact that you delete my messages is also quite guilty-looking...

is this another greg's clone, how come couple of posts got the same topic at the same day lol

100magikarp i said in most cases not all

ShouldBeStudying
Chinese novel usually has more than 500 chapters, 30 is not really a lot. Also, with 5 chapters you will basically not know anything about the story, so you will not be doing a proper review about that book, but giving your personal opinion about what you've seen in those few chapters and what you think is going to happen.

100magikarp
What you said complement what I have said above.

Autarch_GRIM Nope. Editor and Translator should be forbidden of doing that. We can not forget that this is a job and it involves money, a lot of money.

lazyDaoist
dude, my only clone is mambojumbo, which I make because I can't comment on the site, only able to open the forum.

Personally I do not think you should be able to leave more than one review for a novel subsequent reviews written should replace previous ones as you are then more informed. be