Wattpad Transparency and Objectivity With Users

We Wattpad users advocate for the transparency and Objectivity of Wattpad in the enforcing of its Code of Conduct guidelines. Many people have had entire books/content deleted from the site without warning or communication between content moderators and the user. Many have also had entire accounts deleted with the same lack of transparency. As a private company, Wattpad has the right to have particular biases on their rules, but for the sake of supporting users' Freedom of Expression (or Freedom of Speech), especially to protect unpopular opinions, we require Wattpad to be clear ame specific about their rules.

If Wattpad chooses to retain their intolerance to the transparency and objectivity matters I will list below, we Wattpad users possess the right to no longer partake in the free sharing site's slippery slope to authoritarianism, just as millions have with failing Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook before them.

(1) It is not sufficient to simply allow users to report others the minute they "feel an opinion is offensive, defamatory, abusive, or inappropriate." These are extremely subjective guidelines and leave much ground for favoring one opinion over another, and is not inclusive to "different opinions and views," as deceptively mentioned in the Wattpad Code of Conduct.

(2) It is not sufficient for upset users to be able to vaguely report a story for being "offensive," and that Wattpad's response is not to review the material but have it "removed without notice." If a user does not know what they said to cause the content removal, and it is removed without notice or warning, it is intolerant to expect that their opinions won't get targeted for removal again.

Removal without notice also shuts down healthy debate and does not allow the targeted user to dispute the grounds upon which their content was deemed "offensive," whether with the users who reported the content or with Wattpad administrators.

(3) It is not sufficient or "friendly and welcoming" to prohibit users from ranting about issues from their personal lives, as that dangerously encroaches upon the individual rights to Free Expression, and tramples intolerantly on the feelings of those suffering from abuse, depression, neglect, and many other issues Wattpad contradicts itself in claiming it protects. It is clear administrative overreach to dictate what users can and cannot write about based on vague statements like "friendly and welcoming," and risks losing countless users due to Wattpad's ultimate punishment of "having [their] account deleted."

(4) In a time where everything from bottled milk to historical statues is racist, perceived "racism" as reason for account removal needs to be clear and objective in order to discourage violation. The obvious reason why most company Terms of Use are eighty pages long is to do just that, and to enforce transparency between admins and content creators, upon which the formers relies. A single paragraph with a few triggering words does the opposite of this, and demonstrates Wattpad's intentional negligence in empowering ALL users.