course about 12k of that 60 were spammers who'd been detected and banned but for whatever reason not deleted... i suspect a goodly number more were bots of one sort or another
thats because the purpose of the tags is to enable us to seperate genres when the time comes to create sub fora... more than one tag per piece wouldn't be useful
yes, with the proviso that you are clear with the beta reader aboutr what they are getting and don't post the content directly to the site...most people share files by email or dropbox/wetransfer etc
Established authors get beta readers from their mailing lists ( if they use them at all), but people starting out don’t have the option so have to rely on other writers
i'd have said the reverse , however there are a lot of idiots on social media loudly proclaiming that the emporers new clothes are wonderful... just ignore them
you need to unwatch the threads you watched prior to changing your options, then rewatch them if you want... thats a known bug in xf not anything we can influence