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@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL , please pick this up.

Since you are against using a tool that already exist like this forum, I will give you another suggestion. You asked for it? No. But I will give it anyway because I think it is relevant to this subject.

Instead of getting rid of the current "exp" comment system, which endangers the entire leveling system, the comments could be sorted by relevance (number of likes). This way you can simply read the first comments if you are too lazy. If you are feeling really bold and adventurous you can scroll down and search for hidden treasures amid the spam comments (because they are new and still don't have a single like).

MichaelChandra LOL...
1. "There are a lot of people spamming comments and replying to themselves and others with messages such as "exp", which really rather ruins the whole comment system." (1st Post)
"As a result, there's several people making empty comments such as "thx" and replying to themselves or others with random empty comments as well." (2nd Post)
"I'm talking about people that literally post "exp" and then reply to themselves posting "exp" as well." (3rd Post)
"Read what I said in my first post. I did not mistake anything." -> Yes you did or you have trouble deciding if giving thanks (or saying "thx") is or is not a spam.
2. "I request to remove the incentive to spam. I did not ask for a workaround." -> And yet I gave you a workaround. Sometimes people are given things that they didn't ask for. That's life. Deal with it.
"Please try to stay on topic if you can." -> You really have spam issues... I am not gaining any exp by talking to you and yet this thread is going off topic. However, is it really going off topic? I gave you a suggestion directly related to what you are complaining in the thread.
"Also, the comment system serves a purpose a novel discussion topic cannot offer, but surely you already understand that?" -> What purpose? Discussing about the last chapter, also known as Last Chapter Discussion? That's something you can find in a forum thread too. In my view the great unique purpose of the comment system is to say thanks for the hard work of the translators and to show the world you were the First!, Second!, Third!, etc. Everything else can be done in a forum thread.

Totally agree with that! This would help correcting typos you didn't notice before posting the comment.

Hmm, not sure if this info helps but long ago in the earlier stages of QI site there was a form we could fill with the kinds of novels we wanted to read and one of the options was BL. So if there is enough people interested, QI might add these kinds of novels to the site as well.

As someone who read the raws I can say that Daoist Gu is certainly in my TOP5 of all novels I read before. And after the MC reaches Rank 6 the plot gets even better. I just hope one day this novel can get a super-fast release rate like many others here in QI.

MichaelChandra You (mistakenly) used "thx"instead of "exp" before... You might not be aware but "thx" is the abbreviation of "thanks" usually used in internet forums. Thus I thought you complained about the sheer number of thanking comments that take space in the comment section.

Also, using forums for novel discussion is not anything new and is much better to read a large post in a forum than it is in QI comment section. But you don't need to give up anything, I just gave you a option other than waiting for the eradication of spam in comment sections.

The idea is quite good but why not create an actual wikia then? Just name it Qidian Wiki (qidian.wikia.com). This way other people can create an article with the cultivation realms for each novel they read here.

Just create a thread to discuss your novel. You are already in the forum anyway.

Comments thanking the translators and authors for their hard work are as old as the translation community itself. Try reading novels outside QI in some independent translators websites and you will find the same kind of "Thanks for the chapter" comment. I consider it as good manners.

@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL

It would be nice if the levels were named after cultivation realms... Like Level 1 - Qi Condensation, Level 2 - Foundation Establishment, etc.

BTW, I'm still at lvl 3 with 400 exp left and I have 350 Spirit Stones.