WheeledWriter

  • Apr 25, 2023
  • Joined Dec 20, 2017
  • Wolfick

    I am still seeing the spam reviews - user account skyinsummer51989 - I now have three of them in the last month - the oldest is 19 days old

    As for the troll review/comments I do understand what you are saying. I feel it's interesting that the individual stopped commenting once I stopped responding, but of course I am leaving the comments there. It's up to individual readers to decide the merits.

    I am just concerned that leaving a five star review up with random scramble looks like I'm pandering for ratings rather than curating to provide prospective readers with useful critiques or recommendations

    • I don't normally remove reviews unless they are obviously pointless. But lately I have been receiving both advert reviews for a different web novel site offering to pay $$$ for my book (clearly spam) and a review where the user has put random characters interspersed with the word 'bad' in a single long string.

      The Book is at https://www.webnovel.com/book/treasures-of-heaven-and-earth_14483591505502705

      The bad reviews are visible there


      Now, I would not normally delete a negative review simply due to a negative opinion, but the user has also given a full five stars. So it looks like I am keeping a troll review around for the rating - which is not the case.

      I am unable to delete either the spam reviews or the review with the single long string. The Spam reviews still appear despite multiple attempts to remove them and the review with the single long string just says 'Failed to delete. Try again later'

      From a programmers experience, I believe putting in a single long string in the review is causing a string parse exception of some sort, probably due to string length causing the delete process to fail. Obviously this is a bug that is deliberately being exploited by a Troll reader to prevent his reviews being removed.

      Could the issue with being unable to keep my novel neat and tidy please be looked at? It's a turn off to readers to see five star ratings with junk or spam contents - looks like the author is so desperate to get ratings they'll leave anything on their jacket


      Note: If anyone has doubts that that particular reader is a troll, he has put nasty comments/questions on many chapters. Now that is his opinion - so that's acceptable - I'm not gonna try get rid of comments just for critiquing. I did try reasoning and answering his questions sensibly, but he just kept escalating no matter how sensible my explanation was.
      I know my novel is not the best, but it's not absolute trash.

      When he accused me of doing a 'bad disney crossover' when I included references to the original text of the Ballad of Mulan in my Novel (and specified that it was from a translation of the original oral tradition in my author's note - nothing to do with the movies from the Cultural Appropriation Conglomerate) I realised he was just seeking conflict and stuff rather than speaking from a place of sensibility, or you know - an awareness of history and culture - so I stopped replying to his comments. And he stopped commenting lol.

      • Ok, so... I poked a bit more. If I put the book into my Library, the cover is visible - but if I go to the front page - where the synopsis, reviews and so on are, it's still the default grey web-novel symbol not the cover.

        I am also on Android, Webnovel v3.9.2

        Anyway, it doesn't really matter as long as the cover shows up in libraries. Thanks for your help SinBi and Cantiara

        • SinB I can see the cover fine on PC. But if I look at it on the App on my phone as if I'm a reader, it's still the default grey screen?

          • SinB It is 'Treasures of Heaven and Earth'

            I'm not quite sure of the relevance of the name of the novel? Does it affect the ability of the cover to display?
            I've seen shorter and much longer Novel titles than that.

            • SinB replied to this.
            • Actually, if I go to the settings for the book (in Inkstone) on the app, the cover is there, but it's not on the actual book in the app if I search for and look at it as if I was a reader. Quite odd.

              I am aware that the usual solution is to wait - as the app is slower. But It has been a week since i put up the cover.

              Additionally, I used one of the stock images provided by the site in the 'Cover Creator' so the dimensions should not be the issue.

              • SinB replied to this.
              • You must have at least one book in your library or the explore function fails with the 'something went wrong. Please retry' message

                • Hi.

                  Today i watched the ad for free ss first. When it finished the daily check in button was marked as checked in, but i only got one set of SS

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