Gendalph

fixed

It has been published and republished so many times, that there is no definite chapter list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Violence_Jack_chapters
All those chapters are specials which belong to different volumes of VJ.

Not showing Archived chapters is intended behavior, we probably need to come up with guide on how to properly use it, so questions like this don't come up...

Yes, those chapters are broken. I removed them and notified the uploader with instructions on how to avoid this issue.

Fixed: http://vatoto.com/read/_/275754/wagaya-no-oinarisama_v4_ch19_by_shirayuki-scans

Lone Wolf and Cub
Ichi

Here's our notice for this kind of cases:

Hello, Nerissa

This is a notice regarding your upload of chapter 24-49 of Totally Captivated
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Gendalph

I see 8 Tampermonkey scripts running. Try disabling them. All of them.
Or, at least, Webcomic Reader, or some other preloading script that you most likely use.

It seems that you used some Turkish-specific symbols in file name. We don't support that for both chapter (in your case - volume) archives and page files.
Here's our notice template for such occurrences:

Hello, [MEMBER]

This is a notice regarding your upload of chapter [#] of COMIC
Due to the way Batoto handles comic uploads all files you upload must be named in Latin only; numbers and these symbols:

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This applies to both chapter archive and files inside.
Chapter archive must be a valid ZIP or RAR archive with proper extension.
For example: Example_Comic_v1_c2-4 [Batoto].zip
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We have removed the chapter you uploaded, please rename your archive and reupload it.

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Grumpy, you said we should report suspicious behavior, I'm not entirely sure what I should be looking for, could you give an example? It goes without saying that I understand the issue with downloading pop ups, but I don't exactly know what suspicious behavior would be.Thank you for the brief update too!

Anything that you could blame on virus/malware:
Random error messages
Sudden general system slowness
Ads in places where there where none before
Your ISP banning you because of harmful activity
etc.

I've thought about this long before you did.

tl;dr: ratings are useless - people are biased, they never give low rating.

Average rating is 3.73*
Median rating (for my data, end of May, I thing) is 4.03*
Lowest you can give is 1*, highest - 5*, so fair median should be close to 3*.

There are:
about 400 comics that have no rating;
~900 comics that have rating less that 3*;
~3000 comics that have rating 3.x*;
~6.5-7k comics that have rating 4.x*;
less than 50 that have 5* rating (most of them have 1-3 votes).

Yes, this sucks, but this is how ALL ratings are. There is no way to fix this except for rank based on reviews made by critics. Professional critics. And you'd need at the very least 3 reviews to get somewhat adequate ranking.

- What about views?
- They have some value, but those are just views, they mean nothing. At all. Every page view (even bot) will add +1 to views.

- Hey, wait, we have follows!
- And? Let's look at Psyren, Pluto and Beelzebub (just cuz I like those):
http://myanimelist.net/manga/3438/Psyren
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=19081
http://myanimelist.net/manga/745/Pluto
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=226
http://myanimelist.net/manga/10010/Beelzebub
https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=41265

            rating   views    follows   votes   views/follows   fol/vot   vot/viw*1000   fol/viw*1000
Psyren      4.5      385.3k   1620      436      237.84          3.72     0.88           3.27
Pluto       4.59     113.4k   362       88       313.26          4.11     0.77           3.16
Beelzebub   4.5      39.2M    10141     1006    3865.50         10.08     0.0257         2.59

Does having 100-300 times more views make Beelzebub more amazing than Psyren or Pluto? Hardly.
Does Pluto suck just because it has less follows? But hey, it's OLD. And psychological. Those don't have as much follows. Psyren is maybe not as good as Beelzebub is, but hey it's just older (check MU/MAL - they have quite close rankings).

- Then what about votes?
It shows how many users ranked this series. And it's more accurate... Maybe... For current series... But not so much for jewels like Pluto! Which is ranked higher on both MU and MAL.

- Ok, let's use two parameters!
- Sure. Which?
Views to follows: Yeah, newer series have a huge advantage there - not fair.
Follows to votes: mhm, again...
Votes to views: yea, but is Lost Man by Kuji Shinnosuke that good? (it has 8.5) First old title I saw in this rating is Ares (#162 with 2.12), ToG is #9467 with rating 0.06 (my data is from before takedown).
Follows to views: look at numbers. Are you content with them? I'm not.

Bayesian average? Pft, it works only in fairy tales:
- if you set base rank too high, nobody's gonna vote down trash;
- if you set it too low - newly uploaded series will have low rating;
- if you set minimum votes number too low - yea, it will work, but was there any necessity to use it?;
- too high - everything will have rating close to average.

There is a more pessimistic method (I've done some research and tests). Does it solve the issue? No: it mixes everything but popular series with dirt.

I know no proper way to rank neither older series, nor brand new. I've thought about it, long and hard, but haven't found any viable solution.

Images are not altered in any way, however they are resized on client during page rendering to fit reader width and users are allowed to zoom to it's original size.

I understand that you want scans to be in high quality, but I highly recommend compressing images - big images take too long to load. Max file size I'd recommend is ~1.5 MB (use PNGs with high compression and optimization utilities), also image width on fullHD screen is ~1479px.
For any testing -if needed- you can use this comic TESTING.

Please read this thread: https://vatoto.com/forums/topic/894-guide-to-uploading-editdeleteerrorsnotes/
It contains description of how Batoto works, which should answer your question.

My list:
The Gamer (7/46)
Magician (7/337)
Soul Cartel (6/102)
Dragon Recipe (N/A)
City of the Dead Sorcerer (N/A)
A Fairytale for the Demon Lord (N/A)
Son Yeon Jeon [Limit] (N/A)
Special Martial Arts Extreme Hell Private High School (N/A)

Hello, Naver, you've just got yourselves a new hater.

This thread is for drafting a petition text for Naver about quality of their webtoon translations on LINE, which was launched recently.

As I've suggested earlier we should petition Naver, because their translations are horrible: they lack proper proofreading and overall choosing of name translations is questionable.

You can find LINE here: http://m.webtoons.com/
Yes, there is only mobile version for now.

What I suggest: we should find a bunch of bad translations and attach them to petition with explanation why community considers them as such, plus we need to come up with a formal text for petition (sadly, my English is lacking on this part).
After we have both I'll create an online petition (on Change or somewhere else) and I'll try to convince Grumpy to post that petition in Announcements.