Novelupdates replacing my releases with other groups *shade alert?*

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I'm not really mad about this since I was never planning to actually translate [a certain novel that I will explain later], but I think it's pretty shady that novelupdates will delete my chapter on the novel page and allow another group to completely take over.

I'm talking about Not Sure, But It Looks Like I Got Reincarnated in Another World.

This is my original post: https://yado-inn.com/2019/07/03/not-sure-chapter-1-teaser but for some reason now it's gone off the main novel page.




This is the logs from my novelupdates account that show that I even created the damn page and released the chapter, but for some reason now the chapter has disappeared off the listing.



Wow, notice the release date? July 3rd. Hmm, coincidence? Hmm, I'm not too sure.

Of course, I meant to do it as a teaser, so I don't know about this until now when I randomly checked for it. Even if they posted first, according to Novel Updates Policy, I am able to add my release "if you start translating the series from the beginning".

Please search up the novel [Not Sure, But It Looks Like I Got Reincarnated in Another World] on any aggregator site. The first chapter will either be mine or another chapter from my site that I used to deceive aggregator sites.
I can't believe it, it's not Re:Library's chapter! Wow, it's mine! Yado Inn's! HMMMMMM

For anyone who doesn't know how an aggregator site works, when a release on the novelupdates home page has been released, the aggregator site steals the release. It does not access the novel page directly and steal novels from there. Therefore, if Re:Library posted their chapter, it should also appear on an aggregator site, BUT THEIR FIRST CHAPTER IS NO WHERE TO BE SEEN. That means they REPLACED the first chapter that I translated with their poorly translated MTL garbage. That would also explain the reason why it was posted on July 3rd according to the novel page.


(Another proof I posted on July 3rd)

I'm not sure what is going on here and this might just be a misunderstanding, but I'm the type of person who likes to become a shit stirrer. If you're going to ask who posted first, I don't have any concrete evidence that I posted first, but I did provide you with some "proof"...

If Re:Library has some sort of contract with NU to pull shady moves like this or friends with a mod to remove my chapter, then I think there's a problem. This site was supposed to be fair and who knows why my release was taken down after I posted it. I hope Tony or some other NU rep will answer my questions in this thread and ping me when they do so. Although I am also reliant on this directory novel site that has completely monopolized the novel market, you can't just bully me like this.

This isn't the novelupdates I know. Although the the community plagued with trash translators with a load of crap translations, novelupdates usually was never the problem. HOWEVER, now they are listening to BIG MONEY. Just cause their group is bigger, doesn't mean you can bully me like this. Please respond back to this post NU or else you really have some dirt on yourself that you can't reveal. 
 
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Eh? Why would I bribe you to reject a chapter when I could bribe you to tease @Tony-chan instead? 
 
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But bribing you to tease Tony-chan is cheap! xD

Bribing Tony-chan to tease Parth-kun that is expensive... >.> 
 
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i hope its not true, but it can be a mistake as well, did you try submitting the chapter again? i didnt saw problem like this before and usually when both translation teams release, both of them should show up 
 
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lmao yeah ngl it is. it's just a reference to how big companies (aka Re:Library) bully out small companies (my group) through monopoly tactics in the market.

I would also like to believe that this is not NU's fault, but like I explained, it doesn't make sense how my post completely disappeared, while Re:Library's translation was never posted on any aggregator site. 
 
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not sure where you have been reading but every "teaser" novel I have found has been anywhere from 1 whole chapter to a handful as a means of grabbing attention and nominating a pickup to more interested groups.

a single paragraph falls more under "bait" than "teaser" IMO 
 
  • #13
Wow. Uh. Yeah....

I confess. I accepted a HUMONGOUS bribe to delete your c1. Not from Re:Library, though, but from @AliceShiki. And I would have gotten away with it, too, if you hadn't randomly checked three months later! Darn it!

In all seriousness, please remember that Novel Updates is run mostly by volunteer staff, and we are, though it beggars belief, prone to error. We manually review dozens to hundreds of releases every single day, and it's not as difficult as you'd think for one to slip through the cracks. We rely on readers and translators to ensure releases are properly listed.

@Tony will have to check the logs to be sure, but I imagine the release was rejected by mistake. If both were released on the same day, it was possibly presumed to be a duplicate when we looked at it. The word "TEASER" in big bold letters may have misled us into believing it wasn't a full release, too. It's hard to say now, three months later, why we didn't accept it. 
 
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