Ai-chan
Queen of Yuri Devourer of Traps
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For some reason, there has been a few people here who keep asking people to go to this website called writing.com. Ai-chan doesn't want to attack anyone or encourage people to attack anyone, so Ai-chan will not say the names of the people involved.
Now, by itself, Ai-chan doesn't have any problem with it. After all, we allow people to hotlink to webnovel, despite their questionable business practice. If we allow webnovel free pass, every site should get free pass, right? The problem is not about free passes, nor the website itself. The problem is the unhelpful and potentially scammy nature of the 'solution'. For the record, Ai-chan doesn't think writing.com is a scam, since they clearly kept everything in the open though Ai-chan has never actually paid for anything so this is just from a free user's point of view.
And for the record, Ai-chan has no problem with the pay-to-use model. That's how they want to monetize their website and if it works for them, go ahead. That is not the problem.
Compared to writing.com, scribblehub is a much better platform. Heck, Ai-chan never thought Ai-chan would say this ever, but even webnovel is a better platform than writing.com and everyone knows that Ai-chan isn't a fan of qidian. At least Qidian doesn't ask you money for posting multi-chapter stories. Not to mention writing.com's platform is so confusing and cluttered, you see links asking for $$$ everywhere.
Exhibit A
You probably wonder what's with the yellow circle. Well, if you post a new story on writing.com for free (as in you don't pay to get it featured), that circled section is the only place your new story will be shown. Yes, just that two entries. Sure, there is an option to search for genres, but that's hidden way down on the menu bar on the left.
And why is multi-chapter serials get called 'interactive stories' when there is no interactivity in the first place?
Just why you would repeatedly and continuously suggest people to go to a website that is clearly worse is something Ai-chan can't understand. There is the points system, sure, but it requires 200,000 points to get even lowest level of paid membership and you can't even create multi-chapter stories with that. You need 400,000 points to get Upgraded Membership that allows you to post multi-chapter stories for 3 months. For the lowest membership that matters for 3 months membership, this cost you $20. Now, this is just for membership, not points.
Exhibit B
How much do you have to pay for 1 point? For every $1, you get 10,000 points. So if you don't want to pay, how would you get points? By giving reviews. Does that automatically give you free points? No.
You need another user who has the points to give you the point. So if Adam leaves a review and Jacob thinks his review is hot stuff, Jacob could give the review a gift of points. What if nobody has points? Well then nobody's getting the points.
Exhibit C
In some cases, the author gives a bounty, such as Throne of Tides, where the author gives 300 points bounty for each review. That means you, the author has to pay for reviews. If you want to do it, then more power to you. But most people aren't willing to pay for an amateurish product. They just want feedbacks to improve their skills. Money doesn't come into the equation for amateurs.
Exhibit D
As for the reviews thing, well, let's look at the total reviews on the site 2194. Yes, that's the total reviews. Now let's look at the total number of stories on the site... Ai-chan has no idea how to look at the total number of stories. However, the number of stories under Action/Adventure alone is 19, 576. Under Fantasy? 29,444 items. You do the math.
Yeah, Ai-chan is done ranting.
So those who direct people to writing.com for reviews, can you please stop? Sure, you have the right to say whatever you want to say, but you're not helping solve the problem. All you've been doing is pretty much copy-pasting a generic message that directs them to another site that is unlikely to get them the reviews either. It's not as bad as before, but it is still repetitive.
Now, you're probably thinking, "If they want to pull people to another website, let them". You'd probably be right. But this is Ai-chan's public plea to please stop the repetition of this extremely unhelpful suggestion. Ai-chan wants to respect personal freedom of expression, that's why Ai-chan hasn't made a feature request to maybe ban repetitive recruiting.
Now, by itself, Ai-chan doesn't have any problem with it. After all, we allow people to hotlink to webnovel, despite their questionable business practice. If we allow webnovel free pass, every site should get free pass, right? The problem is not about free passes, nor the website itself. The problem is the unhelpful and potentially scammy nature of the 'solution'. For the record, Ai-chan doesn't think writing.com is a scam, since they clearly kept everything in the open though Ai-chan has never actually paid for anything so this is just from a free user's point of view.
And for the record, Ai-chan has no problem with the pay-to-use model. That's how they want to monetize their website and if it works for them, go ahead. That is not the problem.
Compared to writing.com, scribblehub is a much better platform. Heck, Ai-chan never thought Ai-chan would say this ever, but even webnovel is a better platform than writing.com and everyone knows that Ai-chan isn't a fan of qidian. At least Qidian doesn't ask you money for posting multi-chapter stories. Not to mention writing.com's platform is so confusing and cluttered, you see links asking for $$$ everywhere.
Exhibit A
You probably wonder what's with the yellow circle. Well, if you post a new story on writing.com for free (as in you don't pay to get it featured), that circled section is the only place your new story will be shown. Yes, just that two entries. Sure, there is an option to search for genres, but that's hidden way down on the menu bar on the left.
And why is multi-chapter serials get called 'interactive stories' when there is no interactivity in the first place?
Just why you would repeatedly and continuously suggest people to go to a website that is clearly worse is something Ai-chan can't understand. There is the points system, sure, but it requires 200,000 points to get even lowest level of paid membership and you can't even create multi-chapter stories with that. You need 400,000 points to get Upgraded Membership that allows you to post multi-chapter stories for 3 months. For the lowest membership that matters for 3 months membership, this cost you $20. Now, this is just for membership, not points.
Exhibit B
How much do you have to pay for 1 point? For every $1, you get 10,000 points. So if you don't want to pay, how would you get points? By giving reviews. Does that automatically give you free points? No.
You need another user who has the points to give you the point. So if Adam leaves a review and Jacob thinks his review is hot stuff, Jacob could give the review a gift of points. What if nobody has points? Well then nobody's getting the points.
Exhibit C
In some cases, the author gives a bounty, such as Throne of Tides, where the author gives 300 points bounty for each review. That means you, the author has to pay for reviews. If you want to do it, then more power to you. But most people aren't willing to pay for an amateurish product. They just want feedbacks to improve their skills. Money doesn't come into the equation for amateurs.
Exhibit D
As for the reviews thing, well, let's look at the total reviews on the site 2194. Yes, that's the total reviews. Now let's look at the total number of stories on the site... Ai-chan has no idea how to look at the total number of stories. However, the number of stories under Action/Adventure alone is 19, 576. Under Fantasy? 29,444 items. You do the math.
Yeah, Ai-chan is done ranting.
So those who direct people to writing.com for reviews, can you please stop? Sure, you have the right to say whatever you want to say, but you're not helping solve the problem. All you've been doing is pretty much copy-pasting a generic message that directs them to another site that is unlikely to get them the reviews either. It's not as bad as before, but it is still repetitive.
Now, you're probably thinking, "If they want to pull people to another website, let them". You'd probably be right. But this is Ai-chan's public plea to please stop the repetition of this extremely unhelpful suggestion. Ai-chan wants to respect personal freedom of expression, that's why Ai-chan hasn't made a feature request to maybe ban repetitive recruiting.
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