MeriemR it's not about the feasibility of a 3rd party moderation team, it's about the current system which encourages shity reviews for exp and the authors ability to delete criticism. These need to be dealt with ASAP,reviews give ZERO insight into a novel because it's an advertisement at this point.
MiddleEastern
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chu_chan the reason that nothing changes is because of money, they still make a truck load of it each day, once we hit their bottom line which is their money flow they'll listen. Unfortunately for 10 people against the practice, a 1000 people don't care and support them.
RABBITICOL your onions are very important to me, give them up now!
I just got triggered when I saw the author like that, being a hypocrite. I know it's 100% a lost cause because people are dumb, the mob will read anything and webnovel have no reason to kick money.
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I've just started a thread about why deleting reviews(good or bad) is a bad practice.
https://forum.webnovel.com/d/40472-delete-my-review-hide-the-truth
check it out and give your onions.
Veronica8 i was not talking about you personally, as i don't know you nor your work. and sorry if it seemed personal.
I'm just against allowing authors to delete reviews and webnovel should remove the ability.
Dan_Ryder nice dude! very nice.
calling people dog when you don't agree with them.
Vyte they delete legit one/two star reviews while allowing spam/troll 5 star reviews. I've been saying it for years that they need to remove the daily exp for reviewing and remove authors power to delete review and hand it to a 3rd party to moderate.
Moe_Cyan_Pile that's what reviews are for dude, if your work looks like shit for the entirety of the free 40 chapters, then I'll tell everyone that it's shit.
btw dude I'm just using u as an example, i don't know you or your work, sorry if I'm being aggressive here.
Dan_Ryder you are a massive hypocrite dude! I've just read the reviews on your work, you leave troll 5 star reviews while deleting anything below 4. they need to remove your godly power and suspend you for being such a puss that's incapable of accepting criticism.
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Dan_Ryder so you lock someone out of the fundamental ability to express their views just because they are not paying for your work?
this is exactly why we need to get the god like power out of authors hand and give it to a responsible and sensible 3rd party.
you are failing to understand that you are not the product, if i leave a one star review it's for the novel not you.
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Veronica8 it's not for you to decide whether or not the review is fair.
Deleting a review just because you don't agree with is an A move.
Like it or not you are biased towards your work, and deleting reviews just proves that.I've personally researched extensively into the matter as my review of a particular novel novel was deleted 4 times by the author just because I gave him 2 starts and he didn't agree with me.
While I agree that there should be some sort of moderation for reviews or at least requiring to have read a certain chapter before showing the review to the public, I don't agree that the author should be the one to moderate.
I can prove it to you that you can leave absolute gibberish texts as a review and get away with it 99% of the time if you rate it 5 stars.
Well, what can I say to the people that sensor the word fu*k but leave the word nigga alone, as if a racist slur ok
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL it really needs a fix, since people can leave multiple reviews on the same novel and people just typing '' expexpexp'' for the daily rewards.
You can check out my post on the forum on how broken its.Thanks
WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL and while you are at it, why not fix the review system? Since it's completely broken.
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For once qi is not being a greedy whale.
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May1st don't forget to update us when you find him, he is a shameless uncle.
EnderPL rewarding reviews need to go, most of what you said can easily be avoided if they removed the reward for it.
Who would type '' expexpexp'' daily at every novel they see if not for the reward except authors/translators? For the purpose of getting featured or something?. Don't know if there are authors who do that but it's a possibility since there is no consequences for doing it.- Edited
l_nimbus totally agree.
Reviews lost all meaning since i found out that authors can delete them. That must be the worst design choice ever, why even bother reviewing knowing it can get deleted if the author disagree?
At this point it's more like exp farm than actual reviews.non_refert you are referring to the pop up that android uses, that have alow/deny options, if you deny it and set it to never show up again it would show you a new pop up at the bottom of the screen without any dismissing options.
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AnjGee wow you can even delete reviews, didn't know that. It's a dangerous privilege that authors have they can delete any review that they don't like....
Btw I'm so sorry i didn't mean you, i don't know you or what you delete and what not but if all authors deleted meaningless review the problem would be partially solved but again would they delete a 5 star review even if it's bs? I don't think so.
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Dear webnovel staff.
please do something about book reviewing it's a disaster at this point, ratings are infiltrated and most of the reviews are bs.
here is the pattern they follow; someone begging for more chapters, same words repeated over and over again to meet the minimum word count, talking about everything but the book itself or some random guy giving stats.Among hundreds of reviews some books have there might be one or two actual reviews. Don't believe me? Just visit your favorite book and check out the latest reviews.
How to fix it?
While there is no silver bullet solution to it there are quite a few ways to deal with it, here are some ways i could think of right when I was writing this.Only accept reviews for actual ongoing titles.
Reviewers should read 1/5 of the novel for their review to count (I'm coming with that numer on top of my head, it can be any percentage)
Accept reviews from people whose account are older than X (X can be any number of days).
Minimum account level to review.
Like AnjGee mentioned, you should remove daily rewards for reviewing, it causes more harm than good.
There are many other ways to reduce the number of shity reviews but those were all i can think of right now (it's 9 am and I'm at work - _-)
Thanks for reading,
Some middle eastern guy.