What I've been up to...

[MonkeyLord83]

I so agree on quality over quantity. Like, what's the use when you've got a long and wordy story when it's mostly tiptoeing around things, used for side stories that could gladly be ignored as they barely add to the main story, filled of grammar or spelling errors, or, worst, unnecessary lemon scenes just because. Eh...

That system of writer's XP is probably meant to encourage writers and keep them working on their projects/posting on the site, but me feels it's going into a bit of a wrong direction/backfires if a negative XP Pool is possible.

Well, you know what they say, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions". I get the site has good intention, but their method to go at it is not to my taste. They have a system that sorta "pay" writers some in-site currency that, when reached a certain amount can be convert into real money. This is to encourage writers, ofc, but then they tied the amount paid to number of words posted weekly. And as a result, lengthy chapters that says literally nothing on various works was born just so some people could get some extra mullah. And it's quite funny cuz the paying is not even that good, it doesn't even cover my daily spending even if I was paid (and I never even quite gotten to the "paying level" of the exp ladder, still writing for free, cuz I'm a lazy ass who only write when I'm in the best possible mood and mentality).

Then there's the exp ladder, to decide how much one could possible get paid. When I started, their exp ladder gives points when you post but does not subtract points when you don't. So after months of crafting over 30 chapters filled with 3 story arcs, I actually got to like level 2 or something like that before the new system hit. Here's what wrong with the new system: For every 2k words you post everyday, you get 10 points (rounding down, so 3999 words still just mean 10 points); but for each day you don't post, you lose 100 points. So naturally, about a few weeks after that, I was back to level 0 with 0 exp. Thank goodness you can't go lower than 0, or I'd be level negative 5 by now. XD

But yeah, I get what the site is doing. I appreciate their intentions. I even understand why they do it from an economical point of view. But I still find the way they go at it distasteful. It puts pressure on new writers to have something new to post every single day, and that is NOT how good story is told.

But I'm not even going to bother telling them off because they MIGHT just assume I'm just salty cuz I don't get paid LOL. I know they would actually think that because I've told some "fellow writers" off for using improper Vietnamese grammar. And they hid behind the site admin who said that abysmal use of grammar is a "writing style", one that "readers like". Basically it started with novels from English and Chinese that was translated by google, and poorly edited, so the grammar is understandably horrible. But then some people actually start writing using that broken grammar, and then cast it off as "writing style". And because I spoke up against it (as I believe it's the same as disrespecting our own language, and what is a country when it loses its language?!), I was shunned by quite some people on that site LMAO.

Yeah, I've been in quite some dramas since y'all last saw me. XD