Hi guys i just got a notification and it say that Your(my) work World First Ant King(novel i created) is
restricted!
As Chinese or Korean appears in the chapter
content (or chapter title, book title, abbreviation
and synopsis ), your work will not be voted and
gifted. After you modify the content, please
contact the platform editor for processing as
soon as possible.

Like what does this mean?
I created my novel not even im chinise or korean language and the novel i created is not even some maritial art chinise stuff, like i created this because am an ant fan, and also a fantasy fan.

Anybody can tell me what does this mean?

It means youre using chinese, korean or japanese characters or emoticons. I checked your story and there's an abundance of emoticons and smileys, even in the synopsis. You have to remove them all to get your book whitelisted again and contact a staff

    JershonTheWriter As per MatchaMilk stated. Although I'm sure you're confused as it's not Japanese or Chinese characters, the webnovel app/system or whatever you call it, reads it as such.

        PsyberRose 人 (ren/jin) is a chinese/japanese character, it is used in both languages. Although shrunk down, ๑ (no) is also a japanese character. (Scrap that, apparently ๑ is the thai character for 1, still an asian character though~)

        •́ is a middot w/ chinese tone applied to it. Pointless in speech, but middots are used in chinese so it may recognize it as such (the wider middot is used in japanese iirc. Irrelevant, but just a fun fact)
        ‧ is the specific middot used in chinese iirc..

        ˃̣̣̥ unsure about this one, it's basically just a modified character in the same way they create crazy text, so the system may take this as a non standard character too.

            Wolfick Interesting. I knew about 人, and not the others. Still, seems strange to me that the system just takes the character / alphabet in isolation and not whether it actually creates a word.

            They've even made it that any emojis are not allowed even though it doesn't contain any of said characters. Well, I had been using them before in Author's note and it was fine but anymore. sigh It's just a fun way to create the mood and show emotion.

                PsyberRose I'm not sure on the exact reason myself, I can only speculate. Perhaps @WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL knows the specific reason behind it.

                I would assume it is due to the difference in how word counting occurs and to prevent people being able to pad the word count and essentially overcharge readers by abusing the pricing model. In asian languages, they are counted by characters, so you can say each character is one word. As a matter of fact, this is exactly how MS word calculated word count of asian text.

                If it is allowed, what is to prevent someone from adding 50-100 chinese characters in "emojis" and bumping up the price to another coin.

                Author's notes aren't calculated in the word count so they won't have this issue. I also assume non contracted works won't have this issue either.

                    Wolfick

                    If it is allowed, what is to prevent someone from adding 50-100 chinese characters in "emojis" and bumping up the price to another coin.

                    Good point. Never thought of that. Interestingly enough, I just found out that pssed is counted as two words rather than one. So using would be counted as one character, I guess.

                    Author's notes aren't calculated in the word count so they won't have this issue. I also assume non contracted works won't have this issue either.

                    You can't use emojis in Author's Note anymore now.

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