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You are arguing with the threat of a knight coming to kill the dragon and steal his gold, but I believe a single knight is not a problem to deal with for a prepared dragon worth his scales. What I would worry about more, is your bank developing pests. The kind that digs under mountains and is...

@JayMark flavoured yogurt? You should be selling that.

You're not wrong.

It is, and I understand why it is this way. But it's a funny kind of irony nonetheless. Get a meaningless positive rating, nobody bats an eye. But get a meaningless negative rating, and here we are.

I just laugh at the hypocrisy of authors who complain about 1-stars without feedback, but just quietly gloss over the much more prevalent 5-stars without feedback. If your story is good, but not amazing, 4-stars would make more sense, right? Did you realize the average rating on SH is somewhere...

See if the feedback you get is constructive and relevant, but otherwise judge by the actual numbers. If you have 200 readers, and two of them voice dissatisfaction, but 198 more keep reading, I would say that's good. Ultimately though, it's your own story, and you have to weight your priorities...

@JayMark is a strong contender. Giving birth twice in as many weeks, once to a brain-eating worm, and once to an eldritch monster?

@JayMark has left the courtroom for delivery, I propose they are charged with contempt of court.

*grumbles and grabs a mop*

Many of us were hoping Tony would do something more against the flood of translations than quietly hide them one by one. For every one you reported, there was always more cropping up. You could perhaps frame the comments on that topic as demands, though I don't know if anyone made any outright...

Eh, I would bet it tastes better than aliens... and for $30, it better be damn good meal!

The problem is that he's not a doctor, he's a quack! *plops the mop against the floor grumpily* And you have not eaten it yet?

I don't know, the duck seems a little suspicious... Have you ever seen a duck in a hat?

It absolutely can, if written well, but is unlikely to get much traction here. One of my favourite novels I found on here is similar to what you describe.

I don't have many special qualifications, but I can do a grumpy janitor, always mopping the floor whenever you need to leave the room.

Something is going on for sure, since there are now numerous threads from people who had their novel nuked, but swear it was not translation - including someone like @Louhi who have previously proven as much. They all seem to be either Chinese setting or fanfics too.

I assume such function was never implemented, because translations were never meant to be there and it was not seen as potential issue until now. It would be great if there was at least a hidden tag only for the admins/backend to see if a novel was previously proven to be original.

The home of original stories in English, officially. So even original Asian slop is still allowed.

This would nuke a huge chunk of novels that are inspired by Chinese slop, but are not actually translations... now I personally would not mind that too much, but it would hardly be fair or justified.

Technically you could show the winners of the last contest on the main page, with a link to archived results of past contests. But of course it all assumes official support for contests from Tony in the first place.