TheOrangutan

Get Ready for the 2025 Wattys! Some information about next year's Watty Awards has just been released on @TheWattys profile. 
          	
          	https://www.wattpad.com/1503651390-the-2024-watty-awards-get-ready-for-the-2025#

CottonJones

Gav: I and many poets are losing followers, I've lost nearly 2,000 in one week, other proportionally more. I wrote a Wattpad ticket on the subject and have heard nothing in return. What's going on, why this sudden siphoning off of followers? Any word on the subject would be better than nothing. Lpf, Olan.

TheOrangutan

@CottonJones - Not to my knowledge, no. If you happen to pass away then according to that help page, your profile will remain as it has content on it. Only the blank profiles appear to be being removed. And removal of those unused profiles would explain why follower numbers have dropped. 
            
            As for why your friend Gail is no longer following you several times, that one I can't explain, and that sounds like a glitch to me and I'd suggest reporting it in to Wattpad's Support team via the Help pages. 
            
            As for your last question, as far as I'm aware, there are no plans to remove profiles that have content on them, that's something stated in that article. I can't really say more than that I'm afraid as the future is an unknown.
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CottonJones

@TheOrangutan So, if I die my poetry eventually is deleted? Unless all this happened within the last week it doesn't explain to me the sudden drop of thousands of my followers. For example Gail Runschke has found that she is no longer following me several times and it is not an action she has made. She refollows me and then awhile later she finds out she is no longer following me. Is this a new policy? I understand dead accounts, but don't understand poets I know finding they no longer follow me. Thanks for the link to the site it helps a bit but I'm not happy that every morning when I wake up another 500 plus people are no longer following me. Is there way to make sure my poetry enshrined as a memorial after my death?
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TheOrangutan

@CottonJones - Hi Olan, 
            
            There's an article here on the Help pages that may explain the issue - https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/articles/32301286166804-Closing-accounts-of-inactive-users - and I'm losing followers too. 
            
            So, I suspect it's the inactive / dormant users being removed that is affecting follower count, and for those of us who've been around for a fair few years we're probably seeing older accounts being removed. 
            
            Hope that helps a little. Cheers, Gav
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Tannishhthaa

Hi Gavin,
          
          Hope I'm not bothering, wattpad used to be my favorite reading app but of late it feels that wattpad isn't the same anymore as if I've landed somewhere else
          
          I'm so so so disappointed with the kind of books being on trending top 10 of wattpad, irrespective of any country.
          
          Each and everyday I'm seeing those same books, it's so frustrating as a reader to the see the absolute low grade quality books with such horrible content being promoted with so much enthusiasm by wattpad.
          
          Are those authors paying wattpad?
          
          Or is their some other secret issue going on inside?
          
          Because no way I'm ready to believe the books on trending are there because they deserve the rank.
          
          How disappointing it would be for the brilliant authors who work hard to deserve that place.
          
          I've raised a ticket thrice about this to wattpad.
          
          But wattpad seems least bothered
          
          As if we users don't exist for the wattpad team.
          
          As if our opinions or views doesn't even matter to wattpad.
          
          
          Please don't think I'm blaming you, or putting everything on you, it's just so saddening so came here to express my thoughts to you. 
          
          
          Since you are the most genuine and amicable person of the wattpad team, because other members don't even exist.
          
          
          Anyways let me know, if there's some other way by which We can solve this issue? 
          
          
          Best wishes
          
          Have a very good day my dear friend.

Tannishhthaa

@TheOrangutan 
            
            When I see a video on YouTube which has millions of views that I don't get I simply scroll down my dear friend. 
            
            
            Because youtube doesn't force feed me same 10 videos through out the whole year hence I move on. 
            
            
            My point was not about deserving & non deserving
            
            the real issue was seeing the same set of books everyday through permutations & combinations. 
            
            
            I just had a wish of seeing a fresh set of books atleast once a week irrespective of deserving non deserving, horrible brilliant, bad good whatever genre. 
            
            Anyways my bad, it's all my fault that I even raised this issue. 
            
            From now on I'm going to search 
            
            Thank you. 
            
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TheOrangutan

@Tannishhthaa - Wattpad is all about the story, and 'story' is the atomic unit of what makes Wattpad tick. 
            
            Many people are learning as they go, and that's fine, but I've seen some stories on Wattpad that people absolutely adore simply because the story is just good, or appeals to them. How many vids have you seen on YouTube that have millions of views that you just don't get? But people like it for some reason. And that's the same on Wattpad. If people like something, they'll read it, and vote for it, and they will not care that you think it's horribly written and doesn't 'deserve' to be place in the Top 10. 
            
            The Top 10 is what it is, the Top 10 stories that Wattpad readers like. You're allowed to disagree with it, but if you do, you have the option and ability to search for stuff you do want to read.
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Tannishhthaa

@TheOrangutan hey thanks
            
            
            But I kinda disagree with the deserving part, because I don't think writers with horrible grammar, zero sense of sentence formation, lack of depth in even writing a proper syntax, DESERVE the rank no matter what genre they write,
            
             I'm not into fantasy at all but if I see an author having good writing skills makes a mark there I'll be so happy irrespective of the fact that I absolutely dislike fantasy genre. 
            
            
            Also disagree with the vast majority of people reading that book because books with 6 chaps and 10 k reads are also trending that's not what we call being read by vast majority. 
            
            I know search bar exists but I just hoped that
            
            I will get to see new fresh books everyday written by variety of writers on the top 10 irrespective of genres, my likes, my dislikes. 
            
            But Alas I just keep on seeing 10 books written by those same 10 writers since 1 year. 
            
            Anyways thank you for replying
            
            I know it's not in your hands friend and totally respect that you still tried to enlighten me with whatever information you had. 
            
            You always help us with your best 
            
            Once again thank you. 
            Regards. 
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Kuzey--Soylu

sayın elçi wattpad uzun süredir giriş yapılmayan hesapları silmeye başlamış bu doğrumu

TheOrangutan

@Kuzey--Soylu - Burada konuyu açıklayabilecek bir makale var - https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/articles/32301286166804-Closing-accounts-of-inactive-users - ancak daha büyük bir sorun olduğunu düşünüyorsanız lütfen Yardım sayfaları aracılığıyla Wattpad Destek ekibine bir mesaj göndermeniz gerekir - https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us
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TheOrangutan

@MistySpradling5 - would you care to point out where you think I'm harassing anyone? Your account appears to be brand new to Wattpad. Is it purely there to comment on things?
          
          From your comments on the @OpenNovellaContest it would appear that you have a particular axe to grind here. No-one is being harassed. No-one has sued Wattpad for the things you're stating there. If you continue to harass the OpenNovellaContest profile then your profile will be blocked and passed on to Wattpad's Trust and Safety section for their inspection.

gelmemeyegidenkizGGK

Selam

TheOrangutan

@gelmemeyegidenkizGGK - fine thank you. Something I can help you with?
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gelmemeyegidenkizGGK

@ TheOrangutan  how ara you
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CAMELLIA_K_SECRET

Hi. Can you tell me what is the reason for the mass unsubscriptions from authors? I had 50490 subscribers, now they have decreased by 1500+

TheOrangutan

@CAMELLIA_K_SECRET - there's an article here that may explain things - https://support.wattpad.com/hc/en-us/articles/32301286166804-Closing-accounts-of-inactive-users - but if you think there's a bigger issue then you need to send in a message to the Wattpad Support team via the Help pages please. I don't really have any more information than that. Thanks
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RaldoCalrissian

(Hay, hairy. I’m back. And it’s not a good thing.)
          
          Something happened. 
          
          A revelation suffered.
          
          An agony of pain beyond words and thought. 
          
          My own soul is sundered still. 
          
          My spirit shredded torn and tattered.
          
          My mind lies shattered like glass.
          
          Broken shards dark and silent.
          
          The me you once knew can no longer be. 
          
          The life I lived was a lie from before my own birth. 
          
          A secret!
          
          Poisonous and disgusting.
          
          A crime beyond belief. 
          
          I come before you a different person.
          
          I stand here trembling and weak.
          
          I’m remaking myself as we speak. 
          
          This not just a poem my dear friend. 
          
          It’s a genuine ask for help. 
          
          You know the one I once was.
          
          You knew me longest.
          
          You saved my art from me once a lifetime ago.
          
          An eternity of emotions, lies and tears exist between here and there.
          
          For the first time in three and a half decades the conflict and confusion is gone. 
          
          Memories flood from within my subconscious mind. 
          
          Relics of a time before. 
          
          A time when I was too small to defend myself.
          
          A time that I never wanted to remember again.
          
          A time of darkness, dirty deeds and secrets that cause death.
          
          A time I suffered. 
          
          I remember fresh, that day once long ago when I thought this all started.
          
          It all started long before I was born.
          
          (Hairy, I hope you’ll realize how serious this is when you see that I came back here to write nonfiction.)
          
          

TheOrangutan

@RollieNelson - Hi Rollie, and welcome back.
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