Hello! I am new to this portal and all i wanted to know a bit more.
What exactly is the use of gems if u do not intend to work up for the writer payments?
Does it influence good or bad in something?
Like a few days before i kinda read a thread that gems could increase you “rankings”. What exactly is “ranking”?
Thanku for ur patience : )
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as far as i know you only need to code in gems in your story only if you want to unlock the writers payments (:
i think it’s mostly the readers that get annoyed- including myself- when it comes to gem choices. maybe since i’ve seen it around for a long time or just because it isn’t used properly in featured stories. it’s engaging at first but then if it isn’t used in the right places it becomes irritable.
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Gems help you score higher in ranking by increasing your chances of being on trending. Every time someone chooses a gem choice, it gives your rank a boost. For example, if my story was at rank #100 (which it isn’t) and some people select my gem choices, I might go up to rank #99. Of course, adding too many gem choices will backfire and cause your readers not to choose any at all, which is why many authors just choose to add a support choice at the end.
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Hmmm…yes i guess…thnq 
Awww…thats wat ranking is…hmm…maybe a bit wont hurt i guess…thnq
Can I make a suggestion? As much as gem choices can be taken advantage of…there’s this story I’m reading (currently waiting for the author to update)it’s called Switch and what the author does is add around 2-4 EXTRA scenes at the end of the chapter that you couldn’t read during that moment + the option to support her.
e.x) your two parents were having a private argument but when the actual scene starts, the MC (you) enters and would ask what was going on and they try and change the subject…at the end of your chapter, you could add the option to find out what the argument was about & it would be like 10 gems or so (+supporting the author)
~I just think this was a creative thing to to do and to keep the gems choices as an option without it becoming irritating. I plan on doing this myself when my story comes out
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I’ve seen authors have little bonus scenes which you can pay to see with 5 gems! Some are so hilarious 
Anything that’s very funny is usually worth 5 gems for a reader (in my opinion)
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That’s what I meant to call it…bonus scenes…I love those ideas, its very innovative and your so right!
Gems help towards getting into the writer payment, you can still get in without gems, but for that you’d need 500k reads within 60 days. Apart from that specific criteria, the rest actually have gem criteria and are supposedly easier to achieve, so you would need to add gems if the 500k reads isn’t your goal if you want a shot at the writer payment.
For those already in writer payments, the gems are a bonus and the bonus amount varies depending on the gem choices implemented and how many gems readers’ have spent on the said story.
Ranking has already been touched in in previous replies so I won’t go into detail, but essentially the more successful your gem choices are, the better the chance is of getting a better rank hence better exposure hence more reads but your reader retention and how often you update would also contribute to your rank, not just the gems.
The most successful gems choices from what I’ve seen are early access, support the author, top up points and bonus content. Authors also have to abide by Gem Choice Guidelines so they don’t abuse the feature and we’re capped at 5 gem choices per branch.
Here’s one of the suggestion guides if you want add gem choices to your story:
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You know I’ve had this question for a while…can you elaborate on what you mean you need “such and such” in the first 60 days?..Like the moment your story releases you NEED to have 500k reads before the 60th day? that has confused me 
I can see how it can be confusing, it’s actually “in the last 60 days” and applies to ALL of your stories as one unit. So, it doesn’t mean that you need 500k reads within 2 months of publishing your story or stories, you just need that amount of reads within “the last 60 days” whether it’s 5 months after publishing or 2 years.
For example if I published 3 stories at the beginning of next month but didn’t hit 500k reads across all of my stories within 2 months, that’s okay. If I gained 500k or more reads across all of my stories at the end of the year, it’s still applicable as long as I got those 500k reads within a 60 day time frame.
It’s just the last 60 days, regardless of when you published.
The other criteria is 100k gem reads (which are chapters that contain gem choices) with 50K gems spent (which is the amount of gems spent on your story by readers).
I’m even more confused now…I mean what you said makes sense but I’m still confused, you know
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Yeah I feel you. I’ve been confused for a while, but I got my head around it recently.
I don’t know how else to explain it to you though. 
I swear my mind is like this sometimes: 
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If I can reach 500k reads AFTER 60 days then why mention it,? -is what im not comprehending…
There are threads by @/liz that people have explained it. There is also a lot of getting angry at episode and arguing between authors.
Because “within the last 60 days” is a constant, basically it’s moving along everyday and they still need a set period of days, otherwise everyone would be in the writer payment.
They don’t mean “you only have 60 days from the publishing date to get into the writer payments.”
If that was the case, I don’t think anybody would be in the writer payments to be honest.
Awful stats used as an example
This is mine for one story that was published in 2019 (it’s really low and I don’t mind because I literally haven’t been interacting on my social media either since then and it’s been on hold indefinitely. It also only has 3 chapters and it’s ink) but these are my stats for the last 2 months, even though the story was actually published on the 5th of June, 2019. The total amount of reads the story has over its lifetime is 20 something K but that doesn’t apply to the last 60 days. Tomorrow those stats would change because tomorrow would count within the 60 day period but a previous day 2 months ago would be shed off because it’s within the last 60 days, not 61 days and that cycle keeps happening as time goes by.
I hope this helps you understand it more. 
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Okay that’s makes a little more sense now 
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From what I’ve been told, gem choices make it more likely to trend on the trending section
Omgggg I’ve always thought it was only 60 days since the first chapters been published. This makes a lot more sense lmfaooo
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