What do you think about the updated monthly ticket rules on January 1, 2021?

Opinion on this matter: In the future, when you open the starting point ranking list, the best-selling list will be directly displayed, because the monthly ticket list has no credibility.

Just like the rankings of Qidian Women’s Channel and QQ Reading, the monthly ticket rankings are a big joke! If you cut off your own arm and cut off a credible list (exposure list), you really deserve it.

Now this rule seems to be full of game operation and live broadcast routines, rankings, becoming a fan circle, and just cutting leeks.

For some authors, learning about operations will lead to better results, and the income will definitely increase. However, when writing a book, you also have to take into account operations and readers, which feels like the direction is skewed.

In short, the books on the follow-up monthly ticket list really do not represent the strength of the book. Not every author likes to play this trick. Isn’t it good to write a book quietly? .

Qidian monthly ticket reform. I analyzed it using not very advanced mathematics. The data adopts data after 23:55 pm on December 31, 2020.

The highest monthly vote list at that time was Eagle’s Wanzu, with 276,253, followed by two with more than 100,000 votes, 120,836 votes and 109,725 votes. All the way to the 100th place was 5865 votes. The general situation is that there are 2 books with more than 50,000 votes, 1 book with more than 40,000 votes, 7 books with 30,000 votes, and 7 books with 20,000 votes.

Since there are about 500 books with a monthly ticket of more than 1,000, we use 500 as the base for calculation. For estimates after 100 people, the general principle of estimation is that the higher the number of votes, the fewer the number of people, and vice versa. The total number does not exceed 500 people. A table is formed.

At the same time, although it is said that those with monthly votes of more than 1,000 can share 500,000, there is a difference between dividing and sharing. I believe that those with a higher proportion of monthly votes will get a larger share. Therefore, a monthly ticket share ratio was set to calculate the share rate. For example, in Table 1, Eagle alone shared almost 10% of the monthly tickets, and the corresponding share of income was also 10%.

For a book that has just reached 1,000 monthly votes, the share rate is only 0.05%. In addition, the colored part indicates how many monthly votes are needed to divide the money up to 10,000 and 1,000 yuan (rounded up respectively).

You can see that if you want to share 1,000 yuan, you need 3,000 monthly votes, and if you want to share 10,000 yuan, you need 40,000 monthly votes.

Is 3,000 monthly tickets a lot? For Poujie, it is an astronomical figure. As for the 40,000 monthly ticket, it is even more out of reach. But what I want to say is not this, but the value of the monthly ticket. A friend once said that monthly tickets can be used as an income from shopping. I think he was too optimistic. A simple division proves that monthly passes under this system are worthless.

If I buy monthly tickets, and if I reach 3,000 monthly tickets, I can get 1,000 yuan, then the cost I spend must not exceed 0.33 yuan/ticket, right? In other words, the value of a monthly ticket does not exceed 0.33 yuan per ticket. 186 tickets are "written" in a month, which is worth 61.38 yuan. (Subscription income is not included here, only monthly tickets.)

You think this is the end, there is something even more desperate.

Because 500,000 seems to be very generous, and there are many people who want it, and a 4,000-word update can be achieved in one jump. As a result, a lot of 186s were produced, and finally these 186s were distributed into 1,000 books.

The number of people in each class is twice that of Table 1. It can be seen that everyone’s income has been diluted. Even the Eagle only has half of its original income. As more and more people wanted to take a bite, Table 3 appeared. Benefits for everyone are further diluted. Including what was mentioned earlier, if you want to reach 10,000 yuan or 1,000 yuan, you need more and more monthly votes.

In Table 3, reaching 1,000 yuan requires 10,000 monthly passes, and reaching 10,000 yuan requires 100,000 monthly passes! Presumably many people will think of one word when they get here - involution.

That’s right, it’s involution! Use the capped 500,000 to buy countless people's crazy updates. The more updates, the less the relative benefits of the updaters (it has been analyzed in another article before that the more updates, the more exploited), and who makes the profit? Need I say more?

So some people say that the management is so brainless, I don’t think so. It’s that they are getting smarter and smarter, trying their best to eat the author’s flesh and blood, and make the author have to work hard (especially the more head-on) The competition will become more and more fierce, but those behind will just lie down and pretend to be dead, pretending not to see the monthly ticket prize).

After all, for leading authors, the monthly ticket list is not for the money, but for exposure. This brings up another problem - brushes. Monthly passes are so cheap. In Table 3, they only cost 8 cents each. Why not use them? 200,000 pieces are only 16,000 yuan.

So, in addition to ruining the monthly vote list, which was originally relatively reliable, this reform is really confusing as to what its significance is. Is it to promote the author's efforts to update? But there is no profit, so what’s the point of updating like crazy? Is it to promote the potential of great authors?

But why try hard when you can obviously brush it? Is it to make the monthly ticket list with a small number of people available to more people to enjoy? But for the author, the effort and income are not proportional at all, not to mention the involution effect.