I don't think you're popular or important enough to sabotage, or like, any writer? That seems to be a bit too much of pretending to be a target when no, the site provides a service for creators, both for comics and novels. Seriously, I've seen several writers doing extremely good on Tapas and the character limit doesn't seem to be a troube once you adapt to it and understand that not all sites work the same
Maybe you should stick to websites that fill your needs instead of those that don't? Just because you have a specific writer experience or concept about how things should be done that doesn't mean is the only acceptable way, nor is that you get to gatekeep a term that you didn't even create. Mocking others won't make you smarter
Yes, yes.
Also! It's important to understand the public, the traffic of the website if you want your story to be successful in said platform. Just like this other person says
Readability, comfort, accessibility and userbase is also important!
Is really your writing suffering? I believe so, pain is innevitable but suffering is a choice. You're chosing to stay rigid instead of learning to smooth down a bit or even be a tiny bit flexible. Is not a bad decision when you're clearly being told about the userbase and the kind of traffic the website is. Especially when other authors are telling you that they usually do better with shorter chapters
So even if, let's say, you "win", they listen to you, would that still be a proper win? No, because the users, the people that reads will still likely choose something smaller to read and while you'll feel your story is not damaged by the horrible and mean character limit... your perfomance will still be the same because that's not what the average user would like to read
The solution to your problem is fairly simple, doesn't take much time and doesn't require a big amount of logic to think about it, even those that don't read much in the site can come up with the same solution.
It seems that you don't want advice, you don't want solutions, you just want to complain for the sake of complaining (Since I recall you already complained about this in the past)
You belittle someone's opinion based on their usage of the platform but when someone who has experienced the same as you, has adapted and therefore obtained better results that even surpasses yours, then you complain about others "being pricks or cretins" just because they double or even triple the standard you utilized to deny and be rude to another person who again, has come up with the most simple and obvious solution.
You complain about how others treat you but you don't even care about being nice in the first place, you're closed on your mindset, you're rigid, you're being stubborn. Still, giving you alternatives, or telling you what it can be done in the meantime doesn't mean that someone wants to convert your opinion,no one is "lording (? their opinion over you".
Fill a complain, gain signatures from other authors and send it to an email to Tapas Support. See if by sending so many mails complaining they'll listen to you, or listen to the people you manage to group with to see if you can change this since you consider it SO unfair, SO damaging and SO insulting.
If it is that bad then I wonder, why they didn't change this like... idk, years ago?