I got a 404 error on my fanfic. I indicated that it was my work and that I was translating it from my native language. I'd been publishing this fanfic

[Erysion]

These guys thought you were suspicious on the megathread for translation hunting... so maybe ask them to clear misunderstandings or something.View attachment 47555

Assur is suspicious of anything in trending. That's normal. All he have is suspicion and no proof so he shouldn't be the one who report it. He is a lawyer. Lawyers don't fabricate evidences.

What we know is someone have been trying to take down stories hogging the trending spot by exploiting the faulty automated translations reporting system. If your story appeared in an illegal translation sites, they will use that link as a proof.

It will take time for @Tony to return the story back. The longer the story is the longer the time. There is also a matter of other stories mistakenly delisted by the bot that need to be fixed.

 

[Leti]

What we know is someone have been trying to take down stories hogging the trending spot by exploiting the faulty automated translations reporting system.

Someone from outside that group. A few users reporting translations there have their own story delisted too.

 

[tiaf]

You got snitched haha

What? For stating my first impression of a work? I don’t see that as snitching, I didn’t do anything to be ashamed of

Well, there have always been and always will be such rats, and it doesn't surprise me at all. There will always be someone mentally retarded who just wants to complain. And they always write the same thing. I think... That everything should be this way and that way. And you write differently than I want... You do things differently than I see... And so on.

When you write in a way that affects readability then I wouldn’t consider it “do things differently”

 

[Akkizakura]

What we know is someone have been trying to take down stories hogging the trending spot by exploiting the faulty automated translations reporting system.

Someone from outside that group. A few users reporting translations there have their own story delisted too.

I miss the day when what you get from trending is this:

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.

Now we get bots mass-reporting novels as translations.

 

[Emotica]

So 404 means SH removed your work? I have 2 404'd works and they didn't break any rules I'm aware of. Why would there not be a notification at the very least?

It's been 45-60 days since I emailed support and I never got a response. I'm not even sure what to say. In that time, I've literally sold the books with zero marketing.

I was going to basically write an essay here, but it seems kind of unnecessary. Someone that isn't experiencing the same issues is likely to jump to the explanation that it's just one guy running the site, and fine--no one is attacking someone for providing a free service. It's just that at this point, I rather be paying for SH and get timely moderation than using it for free and wasting my own time trying to figure out the ins-and-outs of seemingly random moderation.

 

[tiaf]

It's been 45-60 days since I emailed support and I never got a response. I'm not even sure what to say. In that time, I've literally sold the books with zero marketing.

I was going to basically write an essay here, but it seems kind of unnecessary. Someone that isn't experiencing the same issues is likely to jump to the explanation that it's just one guy running the site, and fine--no one is attacking someone for providing a free service. It's just that at this point, I rather be paying for SH and get timely moderation than using it for free and wasting my own time trying to figure out the ins-and-outs of seemingly random moderation.

What did you write in your email?

Did you provide links to your og work? Did you put a disclaimer in the og work that’s it’s gonna be translated on SH with linking to translation on SH?

You see, there are people who got it resolved easily, but also cases like you and I always wonder what the difference is.

 

[Emotica]

What did you write in your email?

Did you provide links to your og work? Did you put a disclaimer in the og work that’s it’s gonna be translated on SH with linking to translation on SH?

You see, there are people who got it resolved easily, but also cases like you and I always wonder what the difference is.

I wrote exactly what I wrote here. All my works are original, there were no rules that I broke. (Though I have to keep reiterating here that I'd really take any response, even if they just made up the rule.)

If I had to guess what the issue is, it's just a lack of professionalism, and I don't mean that as a stab. It must be very difficult to keep up with everything as a "small" site ran by one person. The part where I get confused is that if this site is so small, it should really be able to slide by easily since there are HEAVY legal protections for site-owners so long as they comply with DMCA-takedown requests. Other than that, I don't believe there's any requirement to pre-emptively establish DMCA protections. In fact, if someone wanted to, they could just request DMCA takedowns without any solid proof. I'm pretty sure they don't do that because it's illegal. I'm not a lawyer though.

Larger sites, especially ones that function like social media do have higher obligations, but I'm pretty sure that still doesn't apply to anything DMCA or copyright related. It's called duty-to-monitor, and most websites we use would be shut down pretty quickly if there wasn't that shiny law about how they don't have a duty to monitor. Like I said though, I'm not a lawyer.

At the very least, you figure we'd get monthly community updates about these issues, but nope. 2 months later, I'm still dealing with the same issue, and I'm not even mad, I'm just astonished that it's easier to post a work on Amazon and get paid than it is to post here for free. It feels like a big club that I'm not invited to.

 

[tiaf]

I wrote exactly what I wrote here. All my works are original, there were no rules that I broke. (Though I have to keep reiterating here that I'd really take any response, even if they just made up the rule.)

If I had to guess what the issue is, it's just a lack of professionalism, and I don't mean that as a stab. It must be very difficult to keep up with everything as a "small" site ran by one person. The part where I get confused is that if this site is so small, it should really be able to slide by easily since there are HEAVY legal protections for site-owners so long as they comply with DMCA-takedown requests. Other than that, I don't believe there's any requirement to pre-emptively establish DMCA protections. In fact, if someone wanted to, they could just request DMCA takedowns without any solid proof. I'm pretty sure they don't do that because it's illegal. I'm not a lawyer though.

Larger sites, especially ones that function like social media do have higher obligations, but I'm pretty sure that still doesn't apply to anything DMCA or copyright related. It's called duty-to-monitor, and most websites we use would be shut down pretty quickly if there wasn't that shiny law about how they don't have a duty to monitor. Like I said though, I'm not a lawyer.

At the very least, you figure we'd get monthly community updates about these issues, but nope. 2 months later, I'm still dealing with the same issue, and I'm not even mad, I'm just astonished that it's easier to post a work on Amazon and get paid than it is to post here for free. It feels like a big club that I'm not invited to.

So did you provide links to your original work (in your og language)?

Tony stated that he will manually hide stories after a lot og works got hit in the crossfire.

@Enkiari @Zinless this is a very odd case, can you ask Tony about this?

 

[FRWriter]

I wrote exactly what I wrote here. All my works are original, there were no rules that I broke. (Though I have to keep reiterating here that I'd really take any response, even if they just made up the rule.)

Pretty sure these stories were not deleted because they were mistaken as fanfics, but they were against the content guidelines, specifically, the one I posted below.
Glancing at your stories, I'm fairly certain you copied them straight from your AI interface into the SH editor. I can't explain your weird format and editorial choices any other way.

If they weren't AI-generated but merely AI-edited, you should write another email and appeal to the admins. Maybe your first appeal went nowhere because your stories weren't fanfics in the first place.

AI Generated Stories - Stories created mostly by AI will be rejected. You can use AI to help create your stories but most of the story should still be written by you.