We have always focused on making the site a welcoming and friendly community that wants to help each of you succeed. That said, there has been a somewhat disturbing trend that we as well as some of you in the community have noticed; profile spam and gaming the system.
What does this mean? Well, two of our authors Vervain and Rivalhopeso did a really great job summarizing the issue. You can read their blog posts HERE and HERE
In short, a lot of you have probably noticed two troubling trends:
1.) People asking other users through comments to check out their series.
2.) People gaming bugs in our system that allows your series to jump to the front page or the top of the live feed by just making extremely minor changes to your description or series
We want to make it 100% clear that these things have absolutely no impact on our decision making process of who to promote. In the end… If your series isn’t top quality, everything else… just does not matter! On top of that, no matter how hard you try, there are just some numbers that you simply cannot mask or work around and these are obviously metrics we look at closely. So instead of spending time stalking people, spend more time making your series great! Your fans will appreciate it we promise!
(originally posted on the September newsletter)
