A little insight into the pick-up process. Generally two reasons why you don't see Qidian sweeping up the forum requests.
1. Statistics. Most pick-up requests are from readers who have read some chapters of the title in question but Qidian has the statistics for the whole book and most titles start to lose popularity after a certain point and that could be why some titles aren't picked up cause while they might have a promising start, they didn't go anywhere.
2. Back-end hold up. Now, Qidian doesn't work as fast as you might imagine. For example, my romance was in the library for months before it entered the voting pool. In fact, the list of go-to-be-in-the-voting-pool novels is larger than you might expect.
Hopefully, that'll clear something up. :)
Why won't Qidian look at their own Pickup Request
Lonelytree do translators have a choice to translate ad per their own wish or do they need to choose from a defined set of novels?
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I had always hoped that novels like zhui xu, the outcast, nine yang sword saint etc. Etc. would be translated.
Female based novels like 'my master disconnected yet again' would also be a great plus
But, even after posting and bumping several times, it seems to be a dream of far future The worst part is-they are not even being translated by independent translator out of fear that it is qi
I just want for the novels that have a lot of readers to be finished earlier. What's the point of having more novels to read if none of them is completely translated?
Water0202020 The latter
Lonelytree
And the novels we see do well in china?
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OMDGEAR most of the current top 20 billboard ranking novels remain untranslated(unless independently)
https://m.qidian.com/rank/hotsales/male
(Do note that the covers may differ)
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I've been on the site before, but I could never tell how popular they are using Google translate. Is there a way to tell? I don't understand the site enough.
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OMDGEAR well, just 8-9 of 20, and 15-16 of top 50 novels are being translated.
And, this is just the current billboard. There are plenty of old novels which were wildly famous yet are left untranslated
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Water0202020 Of the 20, 4 of them are History genres. They are terrible for western readers. They aren't even considered popular in China. Seems like the rest are almost all translated except for one or two.
The 24 hour hot sales board isn't very indicative of a book's popularity since a mass release can result in one of the books appearing there.
The ones that constantly do well are mostly translated already, if not, already being translated and will be put in the pool in the future.
CKtalon if that is so, then I apologize
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Also, will zhui xu and the outcast(mao ni) eventually be translated
Water0202020 Perhaps, but Mao Ni's works are generally quite poorly received by Western readers...
Lonelytree no wonder so many translators dropped the novels after a while...