How to prevent NU bot from listing later chapters?

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  1. Yasi

    Yasi Well-Known Member

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    I have a MTL site. The novels on there will have chapter 1s with MTL edit while later chapters (2+) will be machine translated with no edit.

    1. Am I allowed to list these chapter 1s on NU?
    2. How do I prevent the NU bot from listing later chapters once these chapter 1s are picked up?
     
  2. runsing

    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    1a. you can submit them, but as for whether they will be listed, that'll depends on how much effort you put into 'editing' them. no sure answer for this.
    1b. unless you really planned to only submits only 1 or a couple chapters for each of your novel and then stopped, leaving the rest as uneditel, pure mtls, then that have an almost sure answer. No.

    2. don't tag/categorize the chapters. OR use different tag/category than the 'edited' ones. (example below)
    novel ABC edited version : ABC-edited
    non-edited version : ABC-unedited
     
  3. Yasi

    Yasi Well-Known Member

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    All right, thanks.
     
  4. Yasi

    Yasi Well-Known Member

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    Is this a new rule? As long as you own the rights to the novel you can have it as shitty as possible? If not, what the fuck was the point of bringing this up?

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  5. Parth37955

    Parth37955 NU #3, [Dead Inside], Mid-Boss, Dark Dealer Staff Member

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    Cause you brought up the idea that if you were webnovel or tapread, we would give you a free pass.

    That is not the case, as runsing point out in the following paragraph, translations from official publishers that are unedited mtl get rejected as well.

    What we require at the bare minimum for mtl, is editing that shows some effort that differentiates itself from the raws. The reason your chapters were rejected, because we cannot guarantee that the chapters you release will continue to be properly edited.

    For some illogical reason, you flat out told us that you purposely keep things "broken"
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    From that nonsensical admission and since we are unable to check the raws to see how much editing is actually be done compared to straight mtl output. You kinda screwed yourself over. If you feel other novels have worse mtl than you, you can always bring them to our attention for review.
     
  6. Yasi

    Yasi Well-Known Member

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    (y) Thank you for the response. Very well put!