Discussion Kobatochan pro or contra?

I was on Kobatochans discord and what i read there was crazy.

it was about kobatochan wanting to test out an login so only members could read the novels with the exemption of the first chapters.

so the dicsussion went to how many people woudl not bother to regsiter and kobato says he/she does it for the readers because of the aggregators.

so i thought of starting a discussion here.

would you register or would you just drop their novels?

 

I don't understand... if registering is free, then what's the issue?

 

Eh I don't really mind registering. I mean its still free so what's the harm?
But if you don't want to register then go ahead and drop the novels. Its your choice :/

 

would register, but so would the aggreagator so it would all be pointless and only force me to have an extra account.
if possible to make it so that NU account could be used would be fantastic

 

Personally drop, I understand aggregators are a issue but they will simply register and keep doing what they are doing instead you will lose traffic

 

I would register. Sadly readers end up hurting themselves.
For most consistent translators this is a business
If there are making a loss then they will fold
Entitled users or users who don't care are hurting themselves

 

I get that they'll just register. That's why it's a bad solution. But from an isolated perspective, then I would just register.

 

I would register as I'm unlikely to drop stories for such a minor inconvenience. However, as stated above, it won't help as the aggregator would register too. Maybe it having an account would make things easier to track and ban from the site though?

 

Yes but people like me would also not register resulting in less views less money for the site

also redundancy no point in making people register if it does not improve the situation

 

They would totally get me.....
If it wasn't that I use a secondary mail not associated with the important one to register to sites that aren't things like PayPal or facebook

 

Maybe a script that make recognizable copy-pasted text with an identifier associated to the accounts (programmer noob here I don't know if it's possible)

 

It's possible, but I've already mentioned this strategy and its flaws.

 

I would register, it's free , it's not like you need to register everytime you want to read a chapter you do it for the first time and that's it.
ppl who posted here also needed to register was that an issue for you ?

 

or you can just disable copy and pasting all together like Qid Originally did

 

I haven't visited QI, but I bet that's just JavaScript. Bypassing that is as easy as breathing.

 

yeah but how many aggregators would do that little to none

 

No need. Most aggregation only needs HTML. That means most of them wouldn't even need to disable JavaScript because most of them wouldn't even have it in the first place.

Disabling copy-pasting from the browser only affects normal, average users; not programs.

 

registering is fine and all

but the problem is if the aggregators also register too

 

The first thing appear in my mind seeing the title...