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Predation is a natural thing. More terrifying is that most non-predators still gladly eat meat. (Look up opportunistic carnivores, there is a video of a deer biting a bird out of the air). Non-sentient beings are ok to eat. Mostly because, save for perhaps a handful of single celled...

Red means it's blood viewers. Baal has fulfilled his end of the contract. Hopefully you can fulfill yours.

Alright, I have to just be getting trolled. Our stories have the same number of readers here on SH. If I had an inside pathway on RR and was planning on exploiting it, I feel like I'd try to get a larger readership there than I actively have.

I'm more than willing to come around to this argument and believe it, if you can produce evidence that the report was actually something that should have come down, and you were cordial about it.

I think most of the ads are just ineffective. Not all, some people do it right. I also actually like the idea of a website being funded by the people who use it, and this does that well. If it's not porn, my bad on that assumption, but the basis stands. I had someone complain rabbidly in my...

A fool and his money are easily parted. Most people don't really pay much attention through their entire lives, they don't dig into details, never learn more than surface level. They browse facebook, tiktok, and other such places, and drift through life. They're told advertising helps them...

I never complained about Chinese censorship. I complained about communism. My complaint with Tencent and Quidian is actually that the Chinese government directly funnels money into these companies and makes policy decisions for them. There are aspects within the American system that obviously...

This is a fair take. I think there are probably people who fall through the cracks. I also think, however, that far more people who believe they're being botted or some coordinated attack is happening are actually just being negatively reviewed because the genre they are writing is very...

I'm no fan of google, amazon, patreon, webnovel, or RR. As long as they're the big players though, they're the ones I'll cater to. I put my foot down at webnovel, and don't publish there, mostly because I'm a diehard anti-communist. I quit playing league when Tencent got in on Riot. That was...

So the conspiracy heightens. Now I am part of a cabal intent on manipulation. The web expands. All those who disagree are paid actors, for only one opinion can stand. Of course the only correct opinion is whatever @SailusGebel believes (may his month long haitus go well). All others are...

I jumped through no hoops. I didn't put money in from outside, all the ad money came from existing patreon income, and was reinvested into ads to increase that income stream. I've only ever had very prompt moderation help for things that were actually against the guidelines, and I've never...

New series are manually reviewed before they are actually put up. Usually takes a day, sometimes a bit longer.

I think there are plenty of reasons to dislike royal road, as evidenced by the fact I spend most of my time on SH instead. This reads like sour grapes though. The RR community has different genre preferences than SH. If that is your gripe, then say it. I haven't ever seen evidence of botting...

Yeah, most ads fall into two categories. 1. A kid with more money than sense thinks that ads are magic and any advertisement at all is helpful. While technically true, the monetary efficiency is abysmal. 2. Someone who thinks high click through rate means good advertising. These are...

I've never used their forums, or done a review swap. There is one review on my page that says it might have been a swap, but a reader asked me if I would give him feedback on his work a month after he'd given me a review because he liked my work and wanted my feedback. He didn't ask for a...

Every rating system has flaws because they're trying to measure a subjective thing. In aggregate with enough ratings, all systems approximate the rating. I advocate for my custom, complicated rating system I've dubbed 'true score', which uses the 1 to 5 star system, but then looks at user...

There is an amount of toxicity there as well. I think it's maybe slightly more toxic than average, but the toxicity problem compounds with traffic volume. Imagine in a group of 20 readers, there is one person who obsessively reads everything in a single genre and gives scathing critiques...

I think it's not really broken. It's reader oriented. That does bias towards established authors. You know where else has a bias towards readers? Book stores and libraries. If you want your book to be in a library or bookstore, you're going to have to give some concession (usually monetary)...

Thats fine, but my advice is to take webnovels as the beta readers. Like, it costs nothing to put it up, and it gives you a large marketplace to check people's interest in the story. I say this because you said you'd like to write full time as a job. In the modern world, I recon the best path...

Friendly reminder to everyone involved that the webnovel contracts prevent authors from saying anything disparaging about webnovel, so any posts promoting it from people actively using it cannot give you potential downside information. Further, webnovel is funded by the Chinese Communist Party...