Make the comment section for each chapter as compulsory. It will be nice for the writers to know about their reader's thoughts
Hi there,
I declined this idea because “compulsory” would be very harmful for the experience of readers. After your submission of the idea I did research and conducted a lot of feedback via calling readers on Inkitt to ask them about this.
A lot readers actually were quite introverted and didn’t want to engage but love to read. Other’s said they love to give comments but sometime for some chapters they just don’t know what to comment, so they wouldn’t like to be forced to do so.
Therefore, I create a new idea here: https://inkitt.uservoice.com/forums/197325-general/suggestions/38066608-encourage-readers-to-leave-more-comments-somehow
Please support this idea and also write in the comments which ideas you have how we could encourage readers to write more comments.
From the product side here are some notes in what we did or will do already:
- with the launch of the pagination reader the comments section is visible after every chapter (can be skipped but is right in the face of the reader)
- we released 2nd layer of comments, so now you can reply to a comment in a thread to make communication easier
- we are working on an advanced community editing feature that will give readers the ability to even function as an editor or proofreader if they want to.