After having a discussion with one of my moderators, I change it again to more than 200 words at least. I think we will be updating this step by step until we are comfortable moderating it following what the platforms needs. It seems that getting points is really hard now even after writing or commenting but if it is for a greater cause, I will not give up on writing and moderating. After the new rules, My own articles hardly gets any points. I wonder if I miss any updates regarding these issues.

I am using wordcounter.net along with Grammarly to write and read including my comments and replies. I also notice that some of the articles that are detected as original content by @read.cash are detected as plagiarism by Grammarly tools. I rejected the articles at first but then I read an article by one writer that I believe is an original contents writer and found out that the part detected as plagiarized sentences are actually sentences that does not have a proper citation. That is why I included citation issues as one of the rules. Someone comment on my earlier articles regarding citation and I agree with what he said, "Copying sentences from others are still considered as plagiarism even if it is only a sentence". I can't remember who he is. That is why a proper citation is important too.

I believe if it is more than a few words it might be seen as plagiarism but many if we have the same expressions, way if writing and you can not call that plagiarism. If people say Wikipedia says... or the dictionary... It's good enough for me. For sure there is way more plagiarism that cannot be found. This is only an online checker. I didn't read every book in the world. You cannot do more than your best and some will only commit plagiarism and these are the ones who should not be approved.

We are still updating our communities rules through time until we have the suitable ones for our communities. I do hope when others are submitting articles into our communities they read the rules first. If the article is good but not fit into our community, we do suggest other communities that we know.

That is one of the reasons. Good writers, those who do invest time, are not recognized at all. This besides of the fact - my opinion - a community should stand for something. We no longer have the topics we once had. How to find a good read or something of your interest if each community accepts every line written?

I believe because it is easier to simply submit it to all and wait for them to accept. I am glad @read.cash is working hard to solve this problem too.

I have no idea why people find it that hard. So many communities are a problem because you need to visit each of them to read your comments. With me, on my cellphone, I can see three at most but only click on the first two. This means I miss all the other comments.

Do not worry. I have encountered a few more communities that are fighting for the same course as ours. Communities are still new and upgrades are still under progression, someday things would be much better.

I myself are having difficulty to follow rules sometimes. Well, rules are not exactly easy things to follows because rules are actually restrictions or limitations. Nobody likes being restricted but if we think about rules again, it is also the things that keep us safe and give standard into our article.

It is hard work and because we chose to do all manually since before the updates, we have a lot of unmoderated articles in our communities. We will catch up soon. Thank God for the OC detector from @read.cash moderating got easier but still, there are some author who wrote only a few lines and submitted their articles repetitively.

A few lines and repeated submissions, yes, I recognise that. It is also coming too much material that is out-of-topic. Only on that ground, I reject about 80%. It can come articles about business strategy to my community about Japanese Art and Culture. It seems many authors submit whatever to any community they can find.

I believe that it is only the first communities that accept will have the points but what will it give to the authors? Will they get extra points for submitting it like that? I believe that most will be rejected if they are out of topics. It will only create a big mess inside the communities.

They will not get extra points, but I'm not sure they understand that. I have discovered that many members have a pretty vague idea about what's giving them points and not. Why otherwise are there so many articles being too short for points, not to mention comments? Many spam comments are less than 60 characters. I don't think they have a clue about those limits, they think everything gives them points.

That is the problem with spammers. They do not even read until they notice that their points are not increasing. After noticing, some of them keep on writing about not having any points for their efforts. I find that it is not easy to simply comment on one article because I have to read it properly and sometimes twice before I can comment. Sometimes I misunderstood the articles written and some authors are kind and explain it back to me.

I thought I lost you. How are your communities going? Have you found any other Chinese or Malay writers in this platform? A bit hard to keep up with the submission lately but with our new improved rules, it becomes a bit easier.

haha not really found any, in fact also quite shun away from here, less interaction (maybe me myself also lack of commenting others haha). But with the new rules, will still kiv this site :))

Me too. The new rules are challenging but one of your community is in the featured one if I am not mistaken. You'll be busier now.