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?
“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then." - Lewis Carroll
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.)
"Aaloo is potato in urdu, like AAAAAA-loo, or like AAAAA-look such delicious deliciousness." -Pompadour
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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It's a tiny little mystery, that makes no sense to me...
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.
"You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand." Leonardo Da Vinci
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.
A writer is a world trapped in a person— Victor Hugo
Ink is blood. Paper is bandages. The wounded press books to their heart to know they're not alone.
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.
