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Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:01 am
Cheetah says...



Yes, author's notes are definitely allowed. I've seen quite a few of them before. Good luck! :)
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Wed Apr 02, 2014 2:06 am
Noelle says...



Yes, Cheetah is right. Author notes are usually in bold either before or after the chapter or story.
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 12:53 am
TheUnnatural says...



I just have a question, can anyone directly steal your novel or when we publish it is all isbn-attached?
  





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Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:10 am
Iggy says...



As in, steal it and publish it off the site? No, we have nothing to prevent that. If you ever see your writings published by someone else, you should email the editor of that publishing company immediately with a link to your work and such. But there's nothing YWS can do to prevent that.

Now, if someone steals it and publishes it on the site? PM a moderator immediately. Plagiarism is not accepted nor tolerated here and will result in a ban.

YWS also has a Copyright Policy, so nothing written by you will be published without your permission.

Does that answer your question?
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Thu Apr 24, 2014 1:42 am
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lostthought says...



The solution to this problem is write your cruddy version on here, let the person steal that, then write your awesome version and only have it reviewed by trusted persons. (Basically send them fixed chapter and such over pm.)
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:09 pm
Magenta says...



Why doesn't the leaderboard count my reviews properly? The site says I've written three reviews. I think I've written six reviews in the last 24 hours and at least three this morning, yet on the leaderboards, it only says one review.
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:53 pm
Nate says...



@Magenta ->> I just checked, and it's counting correctly. You've done four reviews in the past 24 hours, which matches with the 24 hour leaderboard.
  





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Mon Sep 01, 2014 9:38 pm
Magenta says...



Thank you. Okay. I guess I miscounted, but I thought it had originally showed only one review. Thank you, again. :)
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It's a tiny little mystery, that makes no sense to me...
  





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Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:34 pm
niteowl says...



@Magenta, you might have been looking at the leaderboards for "This Month". Since it's September 1, only reviews from today count toward that total.
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 10:48 pm
Magenta says...



Yes. I suppose that is it. As long as I get counted. But I did write the four reviews today. I took pictures to show that it changed back to three.
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It's a tiny little mystery, that makes no sense to me...
  





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Mon Sep 01, 2014 11:40 pm
niteowl says...



It might be a time zone thing? It looks like under "Past 24 Hours", you have four reviews but under "This Month" you have three, which looks like what I'm seeing if I look at your profile (I'm in EST, which I think matches the leaderboard). Again, I wouldn't worry about it as I think it's just a quirk from today being the first of the month. The speech bubble review count (top right corner) is your "official" count for stars and such. :)
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Sat Sep 06, 2014 2:20 pm
Rosendorn says...



Yup— the "per month" counter resets on the 1st (EST, I believe, or maybe GMT), and the per 15 days and per 24 hours leaderboads actually count backwards from the present moment.
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Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:44 pm
carmenbluestar says...



All my reviews turn into comments. What am I doing wrong?
  





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Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:36 pm
Vervain says...



There are -- as far as I know -- two things about that.

1) you aren't marking them as reviews. Make sure you do this for every review, where the little slider bar is next to "Is this a review?" -- it should be green, with "Yes" showing.

2) your reviews aren't long enough (there is a minimum character limit of 250 characters, which is about 60 words). In this case, you just have to go further in-depth with your reviews.
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Mon Oct 27, 2014 12:38 am
Iggy says...



@carmenbluestar, I can mark any reviews for you! Just please PM me all the links. :)
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