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Is Webnovel "adjusting" the ratings for the vast majority of the novels hosted here? It just seems like even the crappiest of novels that barely gets 3 on Novel Updates gets like 4.2-4.3 out of 5 here. If you check the ratings of overwhelmingly vast majority of the novels they will be in 4.1-4.6* range, it's like a novel picked up by Webnovel magically becomes better. It makes the rating system redundant if you are trying to make each and every bad novel look good. Seriously I do not even check the rating here and go directly to Novel Updates.
Honestly it just makes you look petty.

It has to do with the ability to rate a novel multiple times with one account. As long as a fanboy or fangirl can rate a novel more than once, the rating will be off.

asyeola

i thought you run the comment/rating section of qi as big data, and find some statistics irregularity, instead, you just think so without anything to back you up

that is pretty low and petty

asyeola Is Webnovel "adjusting" the ratings for the vast majority of the novels hosted here?

I doubt it, they don't really need to since their rating system has 5 categories of 1-5 vs NU's Single rating of 1-5. That will naturally 'inflate' the rating.

What also doesn't help is 50-75 reviews BEFORE the novel is released. That's not how to get honest ratings.

What I usually do is take 10% off the QI rating to get a more reasonable rating. It's not perfect but is a little more realistic.

For example:
Library of Heaven's Path
QI rating 4.4 x .9 = 3.96
NU rating 4.0

The King's Avatar
QI rating 4.7 x .9 = 4.23
NU rating 4.2

Titan Beneath the Heavens
QI rating 2.4 x .9 = 2.16
NU rating 2.3

It would also be great if on QI 'Translation Quality' was separate from the other four categories since IMO that's the one that has the biggest impact on the novel. No matter how good a story is, poor TL quality and editing can ruin them.