Novels are being defaced

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  1. OxySempra

    OxySempra Well-Known Member

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    I am recently seeing tons of novels from QI with tags and occasionally description being defaced.
    We have to find a way to stop this from happening. From what I read on the forums, actual yaoi novels are also being defaced by people removing the yaoi tag.

    Examples (credits to Olivia):
    The Strongest Gene
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    Strange Life of a Cat
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    Cultivation Chat Group
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    Night Ranger
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    And more recently WW novels too:
    TDG, WMW
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    WMW a few minutes after it was fixed
    [​IMG]
     
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    Blitz ⛈️ awakened from the reverie❄️

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    Its not that big of deal.
    Tony recently added additional measures to prevent people going on a rampage by editing the descriptions
    If a person messes with a tag or genre it'll be reverted back by the staff and helpers before long and the users account will be banned from editing.
    For the yaoi one thats probably because people keep adding it to series which already have the shounen ai genre
     
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    Adardoniel MTL Addict

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    Wow. The amount of free time people have...
    Wish I could even have a fragment of the amount of time they use to do all this useless stuff.
    What is even the point of doing something like that anyway?
     
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    SoulZer0 Heaven Refining

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    Your screenshots are cancerous.
     
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    tahzib1451 Title?is it food?

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    Eternal Liar [Forever Alone Sect Founder]

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    When you have too much time, you use it to do something utterly useless
     
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  7. OxySempra

    OxySempra Well-Known Member

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    Not mine, it's a screenshot of a screenshot :|
     
  8. runsing

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

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    is the screenshot real? i mean real, as in unedited, unphotoshopped screenshot? it is hard for me to believe, tbh. i mean, look at the url.
    https://www.novelupdates.com/opublisher/qidian/

    can you explain to me how that url resulted in showing tdg alongside rtw and wmw, while keeping the structure of the url unchanged?

    all of it is an image within a browser, was it? not a real-time screenshot.

    let's start with wmw

    fyi, wmw was never labelled yuri, not in 2017/18. the last time anyone ever trolled yuri on wmw was in 2016.

    also, the Yuri's tooltip overlay is suspiciosly blurred around its edges. you can see it if you invert the colors. it is a pasted on, wasn't it?

    i'm checking the other novels now.

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    before i get to probable alternate explanation, when was this screenshot taken?

    few days ago, tony was testing a new trolling-reversall tool, so it could happen during that time. tony can delete the log when he done testing, so it probably doesn't show in the logs afterward.

    still, it doesn't explain the url from the screenshot. >.<

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    edit. the other screenshots are too small, blurry, unclear.
    what is this? ufo sighting?

    i truly am skeptical of this thread's claim now. too suspicious, i must say. so unless i can get better, clearer screenshot, i'm not going to bother anymore.
     
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    I got the screenshots from Discord, thought I might share it here. I don't have the original. So in a way, this is actually a lot like a UFO sighting

    If it is a hoax, then I'm sorry. But I have seen novels with misleading tags being added.
     
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    short to say

    you need to do a better screenshot nevertheless....
    :sweating_profusely:
     
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    I saw someone posting these on Qidian's forums https://forum.webnovel.com/d/3414-tgif-2/31
     
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    Is this a clickbait?
     
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    BumChikiBum "Notice me, Onii-chan!~"

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    So, whose fault is it?
     
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    Expatamoeba Have eyes but still couldn't see Mount Tai

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    These people should go and find a job or something.
     
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    I checked the novels they posted the screenshots for and saw nothing, so assumed either the mods had already fixed them, or that person was adding the tags to screenshot, then removing them.
     
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    Why would someone do such a thing though?
     
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    runsing status : bleeding, health -10/s Novel Updates Staff

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    it is fine. actually @Parth37955 already brought it up few days ago. iinm, it was ccc, stange cat life, strongest gene. and i've already checked and verify it then. unless the event was around late january where tony deleted a chunk of the logs that was slowing NU, everything else were caught and undo'ed straight away. one was by me, one was by the danmeilady, and the other by parth.

    thank you for bringing this up to attention btw, at least we can clear this up. whoever that screenshot originates from clearly has hidden agenda.

    plot twist : what if he's the one behind the original incident. and because he forgot to take screenshot back then, he decides to forge a few, as self-cest-masturba** trophy *drumroll*
     
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    I have good eyes... Those super blurry screenshots were from 2-16 and 2-14.

    I can't see the year clearly, but I assume 2018.... Also it's a waste of time
     
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