thank you all for your help

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Serenabunny said:
Hi everyone. Does anyone know the proper way to report fake reviews on Scribble Hub?


It looks like someone is using (or hiring) bots to mass-post negative/fake reviews across my novels. Three days ago, 16 fake reviews appeared, and today 4 more showed up across all of them. It’s getting out of hand.


If anyone knows the best steps (who to contact, what info to include, or how to get them removed), please let me know. Thanks.
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You mean ratings?
 
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Serenabunny said:
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Either that or contact Tony directly by email.
 
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Eldoria said:
Please share a link to your fiction. Let other members judge it.

Dude, they really made up random account names. They're just showing off their stupidity.
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The accounts are used to boost their story stats too. They already get what they want so they stopped pretending to be smart.

Tabula_Rasa said:
Hmm....


One stars a bunch of books but always gives storyweaver's 2 pokemen book 5 stars

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Is it a frame up?

or ...

Sus
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They want to pit two fanfic authors against one another.
 
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This is even worse, this is translator to translator "violence" in the website that doesn't allow translations unless it's delisted and linked to NU. Whatever translator who had wasted the money to downvote the other translators, which is funny lmao
 
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Tempokai said:
This is even worse, this is translator to translator "violence" in the website that doesn't allow translations unless it's delisted and linked to NU. Whatever translator who had wasted the money to downvote the other translators, which is funny lmao
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Well then, I bet that's gonna be an interesting report for them to read over.
 
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I guess someone really hates translations. And to be fair, if all the works are translations, they should not ever appear in searches, much less the front page, because translations are not allowed on SH. They are only tolerated as hidden, to be linked from other sites, and because there is no way to reliably filter them out without manual reporting.

Prohibited Series​

  • Poems, random drawings, story ideas, etc... basically anything that isn't a story.
  • Non-English stories
  • Translations
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Serenabunny said:
Yes. At first I had nine reviews, and I ended up on the front page I don’t know why or how that front-page feature works. The next day I suddenly had 16 one-star ratings, and I was no longer on the front page. That’s when I asked people to help me, but the novel still couldn’t recover.
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So, here is the thing that bugs me personally because I also understand it as a biased justification. And me calling it that is really bad. Still reasonable when you hear their side on things.

These one-star carpet bombings usually happen because somebody wants you to quit. Why? Because they see you as a threat. What are you threatening? Their paycheck.

Let's take... Okay, @tantrayaan was recently top dog, right? I'm going to use them because they did make themself a huge target for this. What I mean is that they recently created a whole thread to celebrate that achievement of reaching #1 in Trending. And they are relying on a good amount of faith from readers to visit and tip or subscribe to them. That's a hefty sum for work that already exists on this platform and each word isn't a consumable resource; it's a static product that only grows the more they write. If someone had similar titles to theirs that was getting in their way, maybe they'd go in and sweep them with those shiny, single stars. After everybody here witnessed how passionate Tantrayaan was about that accomplishment, it's very plausible some jealous asshole saw the public announcement here and would go in to do that to them.

Bots make it real easy because they are more effective than a throwaway account, and as you experienced, they can reproduce while they're coming in from all angles. Really nasty.

Back to what I'm pointing out. You can see how that envy may affect another like the smiling rain of sunshine like Tantrayaan; there may exist somebody who is vindictive enough to go beyond ethical means to ensure they keep their cash cow from losing its exposure on the front page.

It's bad to reason out the whys, but you can see the logic behind it. It's an existing practice of comparative advertising in a brand war.
 
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L1aei said:
So, here is the thing that bugs me personally because I also understand it as a biased justification. And me calling it that is really bad. Still reasonable when you hear their side on things.

These one-star carpet bombings usually happen because somebody wants you to quit. Why? Because they see you as a threat. What are you threatening? Their paycheck.

Let's take... Okay, @tantrayaan was recently top dog, right? I'm going to use them because they did make themself a huge target for this. What I mean is that they recently created a whole thread to celebrate that achievement of reaching #1 in Trending. And they are relying on a good amount of faith from readers to visit and tip or subscribe to them. That's a hefty sum for work that already exists on this platform and each word isn't a consumable resource; it's a static product that only grows the more they write. If someone had similar titles to theirs that was getting in their way, maybe they'd go in and sweep them with those shiny, single stars. After everybody here witnessed how passionate Tantrayaan was about that accomplishment, it's very plausible some jealous asshole saw the public announcement here and would go in to do that to them.

Bots make it real easy because they are more effective than a throwaway account, and as you experienced, they can reproduce while they're coming in from all angles. Really nasty.

Back to what I'm pointing out. You can see how that envy may affect another like the smiling rain of sunshine like Tantrayaan; there may exist somebody who is vindictive enough to go beyond ethical means to ensure they keep their cash cow from losing its exposure on the front page.

It's bad to reason out the whys, but you can see the logic behind it. It's an existing practice of comparative advertising in a brand war.
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There's nothing to be jealous of; this person is a translator. Which is why they upload so many chapters
 
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