Got 1 star because of a comment in forum.

[Zinless]

If you want to remove the unfair 1-star rating, you can report this to @/Tony. Considering you have enough evidence of the childish behavior, it'll most likely be dealt with.

 

[Xcalibur_Xc]

Posting for such a small reason.??? It must be the first time this happened to you. Just check my books lol. They followed me from Webnovel and RR to troll. Very common thing. Fake ratings and reviews. I did report them, but no one cares lol. So, in my opinion, Webnovel has the best rating system, you can just delete those troll reviews, but here, noooo. You need admin to remove them.

 

[Dieter]

Getting one star has 0 impact on whether someone reads your story or not at least in SH. Most stories sit at 4-4.5, and they're either good and bad despite their rating. A one star on your story is inevitable. If you ever get big enough, you're bound to get a few of them. Tbh, just take it as as sign that you're big enough to attract people outside your audience (and also bots).

 

[RepresentingWrath]

Posting for such a small reason.??? It must be the first time this happened to you. Just check my books lol. They followed me from Webnovel and RR to troll. Very common thing. Fake ratings and reviews. I did report them, but no one cares lol. So, in my opinion, Webnovel has the best rating system, you can just delete those troll reviews, but here, noooo. You need admin to remove them.

It's the worst system, since a lot of authors only keep 5 stars.

 

[KoyukiMegumi]

If RoyalRoad is anything to go by, there isn't much you can do to prevent someone from leaving a false rating. People over there flip through the chapters to make it look like they read your story when they didn't and then leave half star reviews. Even if it was time based, people who are spiteful enough could get around it. Honestly, I'm just not a big fan of review systems on sites like this. Most people are writing as a hobby, they don't need people to trash their novel and be unable to remove the painful review comments. It just kills their motivation to write. Wattpad's star system is a bit better since it still allows them to rank stories, but it's all positive feedback.

For the record, I had someone just today follow me from RoyalRoad to ScribbleHub to continue commenting on my work after I blocked them. Same profile picture, username, etc. All of these sites suck with their toxicity and I'm growing tired of it.

Inkitt is another site that has a nice-like system. There are reviews if you want to leave some, but people usually press the heart, and that's it. An interactive feature also allows readers to give feedback with emojis. It's quite fun!

As for the topic at hand, well, it sucks to be bombarded by trolls, especially when there isn't any feedback to come by. It does kill the joy of writing.

 

[ThatTwat3000]

Posting for such a small reason.??? It must be the first time this happened to you. Just check my books lol. They followed me from Webnovel and RR to troll. Very common thing. Fake ratings and reviews. I did report them, but no one cares lol. So, in my opinion, Webnovel has the best rating system, you can just delete those troll reviews, but here, noooo. You need admin to remove them.

Webnovel’s rating/reviewing/commenting system sucks.

Pirates often delete all the reviews, ratings, comments that regular users post on those novels pointing out that they stole someone else’s work, and the admins of Webnovel refuse to respond or delete those pirated novels for months, and even years at a time, if they ever do decide to remove the novels from the site.

I really don’t see how that fosters a good look?

At least on SH, our moderators actually take the time to humanly look through reports. I would say it’s the same on RR, with actual mods that do care. Webnovel has a horrible rating system.

 

[Rhaps]

If you want to remove the unfair 1-star rating, you can report this to @/Tony. Considering you have enough evidence of the childish behavior, it'll most likely be dealt with.

Shit, you can do that? Then can I report that one of my friend made a troll account to just rate me 1 star that happen a year ago?

 

[ThatTwat3000]

Shit, you can do that? Then can I report that one of my friend made a troll account to just rate me 1 star that happen a year ago?

If you have enough evidence, yeah.

 

[HuaiChi]

I am not programmer, but there are many system that can measure how long a reading would be ( I have seen in blogs or news sites, 4 min read/ 6 min read.) it would be easier if the program would check and account had spent reading the book on the chapters (say first three chapters) before they are allowed to rate.

I think SH can already track how long you have read a book as in the dash board of a novel there is a tab called 'valid read' that can track if the reader had spend more than 30 seconds(or something like that) or not.

 

[Deleted member 166076]

Inkitt is another site that has a nice-like system. There are reviews if you want to leave some, but people usually press the heart, and that's it. An interactive feature also allows readers to give feedback with emojis. It's quite fun!

As for the topic at hand, well, it sucks to be bombarded by trolls, especially when there isn't any feedback to come by. It does kill the joy of writing.

Yeah, I cross-post to 12 sites, not including my Patreon. Pretty much, if it isn't a scam site, I post there. I've had mostly positive feedback on Inkitt as people are really nice there, but I've also had a few rude people in the month or so I've been using the site.

Things like someone sarcastically commenting about how my dungeon novels start as a straight line from the entrance to the dungeon core, you know like most dungeons with a MC managing it start out. The whole point is that the MC develops it into what they want...

That's incredibly tame compared to what I'm used to, but it's still hardly a paradise. Besides, most of the time people wait until a year has passed and they think no one will see the comments to post the worst things, if Wattpad and RoyalRoad are anything to go by, so we'll see how things develop, I guess.

Honestly, I've been considering writing some shorter works when I finish my 2 & 1/2 dungeon web serials. If I complete the whole story before posting it, I find that it bothers me less when people trash it. I can't be demotivated to finish it since it's already finished and I just feel less attached to the characters and story at that point.

I've got a few stories from a decade and a half ago posted that people are only now discovering and I just don't care if they say the writing is bad because yeah duh! Of course it is, it was my first attempt at writing as a teenager and I was just following the trends then, putting my own twist on it, and not really doing something I was passionate about. The endings were rushed and no amount of editing will fix the writing quality.

Even my more recently finished five volume series "Her Beasts" I have noticed I feel less and less attached to as the months go by. The writing in the beginning doesn't even match the quality in the end and much of it makes me cringe. Part of taking a year and a half to write half a million words is that you grow a lot in a shortish period of time, so it's more like looking back on something you wrote a much longer period of time ago than it actually is. I actually get the craziest comments for this series, though my dungeon work is starting to rival it, so I'm hopeful one day I just won't care about the hateful comments anymore.

 

[HuaiChi]

Yeah, I cross-post to 12 sites, not including my Patreon. Pretty much, if it isn't a scam site, I post there. I've had mostly positive feedback on Inkitt as people are really nice there, but I've also had a few rude people in the month or so I've been using the site.

Things like someone sarcastically commenting about how my dungeon novels start as a straight line from the entrance to the dungeon core, you know like most dungeons with a MC managing it start out. The whole point is that the MC develops it into what they want...

That's incredibly tame compared to what I'm used to, but it's still hardly a paradise. Besides, most of the time people wait until a year has passed and they think no one will see the comments to post the worst things, if Wattpad and RoyalRoad are anything to go by, so we'll see how things develop, I guess.

Honestly, I've been considering writing some shorter works when I finish my 2 & 1/2 dungeon web serials. If I complete the whole story before posting it, I find that it bothers me less when people trash it. I can't be demotivated to finish it since it's already finished and I just feel less attached to the characters and story at that point.

I've got a few stories from a decade and a half ago posted that people are only now discovering and I just don't care if they say the writing is bad because yeah duh! Of course it is, it was my first attempt at writing as a teenager and I was just following the trends then, putting my own twist on it, and not really doing something I was passionate about. The endings were rushed and no amount of editing will fix the writing quality.

Even my more recently finished five volume series "Her Beasts" I have noticed I feel less and less attached to as the months go by. The writing in the beginning doesn't even match the quality in the end and much of it makes me cringe. Part of taking a year and a half to write half a million words is that you grow a lot in a shortish period of time, so it's more like looking back on something you wrote a much longer period of time ago than it actually is. I actually get the craziest comments for this series, though my dungeon work is starting to rival it, so I'm hopeful one day I just won't care about the hateful comments anymore.

12 sites??

 

[Deleted member 166076]

12 sites??

Yep. Let's see here: Wattpad, RoyalRoad, WebNovel, Inkitt, ScribbleHub, Honeyfeed, Penana, Medium, Booksie, SpaceBattles, Sufficient Velocity, Reddit Serials, and then there's my Patreon. They all have different pros and cons, different genres they mostly cater to, and different audiences that overlap to varying degrees. They also have different rules and you have to carefully read through them to make sure you don't run into any issues. However, if you want your work to be discovered by more people and direct a larger audience to a Patreon, you have to post to as many sites as you reasonably can. Obviously, this exacerbates the issue when readers you block on one site follow you to the others, but that's just how it is, I guess.

 

[Prince_Azmiran_Myrian]

Rude people and troll will exist no matter where you go. Suffering through their nonsense will make you stronger.

 

[KoyukiMegumi]

If I complete the whole story before posting it, I find that it bothers me less when people trash it. I can't be demotivated to finish it since it's already finished and I just feel less attached to the characters and story at that point.

I always post finished works, so maybe this is why I don't care much about reviews. But I still love my stories dearly, even if I could've written them better. I guess it's hard to hit perfection, but those comments still sting at times. I've learned that if it isn't constructive, to ignore it. People there seem to love to give 1* to everything, especially in RR.

I've had mostly positive feedback on Inkitt as people are really nice there, but I've also had a few rude people in the month or so I've been using the site.

Strangely, I still haven't hit those folks, but it seems they are everywhere. Good rotten apples always make the rest look bad, too.

've got a few stories from a decade and a half ago posted that people are only now discovering

Gosh, if I ever post stories from when I was a teen, I think I'd die.

so I'm hopeful one day I just won't care about the hateful comments anymore.

I think we will always care, but I think what will always help is the people we allow to escape with our stories. And those are why I keep posting for the few who might enjoy my stories.

 

[jrell]

I like how, instead of demanding that the measures for protecting authors from one-star/review bombing be implemented, we just say, "Yeah, go ask Tony. He will fix everything."

No, he won't. How can you distinguish a personal opinion from an intended trolling? Anyone can read the first few chapters of your work and exaggerate every little detail in it to scare any new potential readers. Good luck convincing Tony in this case because it falls perfectly under someone's personal opinion.

How about automatically prompting readers to rate the story at the end of the chapter (only if they didn't already) so they more often leave it? It would make a 1-star less impactful, giving an author an actual representation of how the public sees their work. Right now, you have to beg your readers to do it. This is not normal.

How about downvotes for reviews or the ability to leave the author's comments? (Users should be able to downvote those just as much.) This is a basic functionality Reddit has had for almost two decades.

A small animation for the "heart" icon can do wonders, encouraging readers to leave likes. I've seen so many authors here who do not receive any feedback for their works, not even likes. Hell, all the feedback requests here are a direct consequence of this. Knowing that someone is out there enjoying their novel can give these authors the confidence they need.

And my favorite, this forum's "Feature Requests" section, has only four feature requests implemented in the last two years: two small bug fixes and two new tags, each 20 minutes of work at most. There is zero chance that the three above, or anything as "difficult," will be implemented.?‍

 

[Zinless]

Good luck convincing Tony in this case because it falls perfectly under someone's personal opinion.

How is this a "personal opinion"??

I get your point, but this one's def a troll (or a really bad attempt at being funny.)

 

[jrell]

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How is this a "personal opinion"??

I get your point, but this one's def a troll.

Yeah, it's just a troll, and you were lucky enough to have evidence for it. Now, imagine if he hadn't let you know he left you a one-star rating. There's no way you would have done anything about it with how things work right now.

 

[RepresentingWrath]

I like how, instead of demanding that the measures for protecting authors

I don't know about others, but I want to protect readers as well. Wild, I know.

 

[RepresentingDesire]

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How is this a "personal opinion"??

I get your point, but this one's def a troll (or a really bad attempt at being funny.)

That asshole said already that he's a troll on another tweet.
I just take everything from him as a joke.

 

[jrell]

I don't know about others, but I want to protect readers as well. Wild, I know.

I do, too, but I don't see how those things hurt them.