I'm somewhat of a Wattpad refuge. I'm kind of trying to get away from the (mostly) toxic community over there. The public feed is ... weird. I don't really like how threads intended to be private are broadcast. And then, when you actually interact you can slammed for it.
I'm very reluctant going back.
SF and Fantasy mainly. Literary and General Fiction is excellent.
But here is another major reason I'm switching to here: Wattpad users are literally craving for the blocking. Seriously, they'll block for just about literally anything, the offense doesn't even have to make sense:
User One: I'm a Banana!
User Two: *Blocks.
User One: Hey how's the weather?
User Two: *Blocks.
That's not what the block feature was designed for you ass hats. It's used more as a tool for political oppression than reasoned conversation. It's a lot like twitter in this way.
And Ambassadors? Yea you don't even get to mute Ambassadors. Give me all the excuses all you want. It literally seems like the most immature people end up getting the ambassadorship.
Removing my stuff there and not going back.
If you're going to moderate something like Wattpad, your job is to act like a professional. Not just use the mute function willy nilly just because it gives you a feeling of power of others.
As you can see, I have a bit of trauma about it.
They also sell the rights to your work without notifying you about it as well. For example, the rights to adapt my novel was sold to Hollywood. And then this producers borrowed 1/3rd of my plot without notifying that they have done so, therefore violating my copy write.
I'm very reluctant going back.
SF and Fantasy mainly. Literary and General Fiction is excellent.
But here is another major reason I'm switching to here: Wattpad users are literally craving for the blocking. Seriously, they'll block for just about literally anything, the offense doesn't even have to make sense:
User One: I'm a Banana!
User Two: *Blocks.
User One: Hey how's the weather?
User Two: *Blocks.
That's not what the block feature was designed for you ass hats. It's used more as a tool for political oppression than reasoned conversation. It's a lot like twitter in this way.
And Ambassadors? Yea you don't even get to mute Ambassadors. Give me all the excuses all you want. It literally seems like the most immature people end up getting the ambassadorship.
Removing my stuff there and not going back.
If you're going to moderate something like Wattpad, your job is to act like a professional. Not just use the mute function willy nilly just because it gives you a feeling of power of others.
As you can see, I have a bit of trauma about it.
They also sell the rights to your work without notifying you about it as well. For example, the rights to adapt my novel was sold to Hollywood. And then this producers borrowed 1/3rd of my plot without notifying that they have done so, therefore violating my copy write.
That is not acceptable.
With this and the other comment I read of you regarding your life experience, these are shaking narratives for me to handle. Like, what?
Shocking and terrifying.