I have noticed in the past few days that comments and replies that have certain words get instantly deleted after being posted, and these words were being posted normally days ago. Is there any new policy for commenting on Webnovel, or is this a bug?
P.s It was tried on both mobile and app and from multiple users.
Darkstar11051999 I believe there was some changes to the system which will automatically block some things. I'm not entirely sure what triggers it, but I suspect it is certain words and/or given some other conditions. I've had three reviews on my novel blocked in the same way. They aren't deleted, they are just removed from where they are posted to and float in the void.
Wolfick Yeah, same. Only I can see my comments, and the one who receives them can only see them in the notification center, but can't open them or react to them.
It gotta be a bug as there was nothing in the comment to get it deleted someone sent me a comment this happened i let them know then they sent it again and it showed just fine
This has been a thing for months, if you've started noticing it in the past few days then you are among the lucky ones. After noticing this stuff at least 2 months ago I messaged support and they said they censor a few things including personal attacks and sexual content(I think). Though I've had my curses censored, like one time I posted the same exact comment except I took out the word "Shit" and it worked, and I've seen others who have said such things that got it deleted.
FunnyBuns that's , weird I can just post curse and nothing happens to me.
FunnyBuns I am not talking about censoring. Censoring has been a thing ever since I joined Webnovel 1 year ago, but it was always changing the word like from "Shit" into "****", but right now the comments and replies just disappear and only appear to the one posted them and the notification center of the receiver.
The censoring depends on what's the parental guidance rating level for your book. If it's set to general, it will be heavily censored, whereas if it's set to 18+ only certain terms will get censored.
Darkstar11051999 It seems you didn't understand me, I know censoring always existed, they just took it to a new level by outright hiding the comments from everyone but the person who commented.
Grand_Void_Daoist Man my comment on My Pickup Artist System was censored/deleted because I said "Vagina". The comment where I said "shit" that got censored/deleted was on Villain Cultivator, seems doubtful.
I write my own Fan-Fic and i've noticed this a lot, someone makes a Paragraph Comment and i want to go see where they said it and suddenly ''There is no information'' appears or something like that. It doesn't just happens once or twice it happens 5-10% of the times a Paragraph Comment is posted.
FunnyBuns I see.
Lafafar Yeah, same here, that's mostly why I posted this thread.
Grand_Void_Daoist It's set to +18 only, and it happened on like every book in my library, and not just me alone.
And he words that make the comments disappear has always been just censored or not even censored at all even in general audience type of books.
