All things considered, however, not many sites like this exist and some problems are expected. While ample space is provided for just about any kind of writing project you may want to start/upload, the likelihood of it being read or even reviewed by other readers/editors relies entirely on your knack for uploading it in the broadest categories possible and with the perfect (early alphabet) title to draw attention before boredom sets in scanning through the forums. It's not a 'link-up and make friends' kind of site.
The community is highly varied and plenty of cross-chatter occurs, but over a very, very long period of time. Other than that, it's just another online journal. This site is exactly what it states: a great resource for up-and-coming writers to connect to editors. I guess they don't realize that in the long run it puts off MANY people who are viewing and they lose more money in the long term. The bully is a money bank and so they let her do whatever she wants. Upon further research, I realized the clique leader/head bully had paid in about $50 to the site (most other people it seems have only paid in maybe $5 or so). I also reported them for how the forum bullies were treating one girl (cussing at her and attacking her for her disability) and they said they were going to "stay out of it". They should care about the integrity of the ratings.
I asked the site owner about it, and he said that yes, those rating came from those people did sound like vindictive ratings, but that they weren't going to cancel those ratings. I tried sticking up for a girl on there once, and then right after that my book got hit with some low rate scores. My book has been doing well on the site, but if I'm looking at it without bias, I've noticed that only certain genres seem to do well, no matter the quality of writing (so probably means very little that my own novels is doing well.) I've also noticed a couple forum bullies, and the administration team seems to do nothing about it.
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