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The issue is that tags are very subjective and up to author fiat. Moods attributes would be a bit more rigid. I do agree with the points you two are making though and they are valid, but I feel that it's mainly the issue that you brought up earlier that people just don't understand the nuances...

Also, just because you feel that there is little value, does not mean that other people cannot and will not derive value from such a feature. This is also why the suggestion forum exists to discuss the suggestions. If you could avoid adding a mood would that be enough to still allow you to...

It's on the author to convey the mood of the story via synopses and the tags at the moment. If they convey it poorly, it's on the author for not conveying it correctly. If this is implemented or not, it still is an issue, but this helps strongly mitigate things as it provides a concrete...

Note that those are genres and tags and decidedly not what I mentions of how it should work. I am thinking of some set of axes that the readers can vote on or that the author can decide that they think the general mood of the story reflects.

I do get your concerns of it being something that authors will have to think about and that it could constrain the author. But this feature was meant for readers. If the author did a poor job at conveying the intended mood for a story in their synopsis, the reader might invest hours and then...

This wouldn't be a user submitted tag, but instead a poll of the mood. A user would only get a single vote so if majority of users vote correctly, then it's fine.

Even if the authors write a good synopsis, there would not be a way to filter based on synopses as that would require natural language processing to process the synopsis and sentiment analysis to extract the mood. It's much easier to just have attributes that are used to filter stories that...

Just make it mandatory to fill out before they can make a new novel. At the moment you can't have a story without a title of some sort. So just make it that any new story must have a mood specified.

Whoops, definitely meant Mood or Setting Tone rather than just tone. While there are tonal shifts from scene to scene in stories, the mood or setting tone of a story actually rarely changes. Lord of the Rings has a mood of seriousness to the narrative, while tone from scene to scene changes. You...

Mood/Setting Tone as a filterable feature of stories Premise: The ability to denote and filter based on the mood of stories would be a huge boon and would allow people to avoid the big problem of not meeting user expectations. Reasoning: I feel that a lot of the reason people end up with huge...

Not exactly. It depends on the time the entry was written relative to the time the event took place. You can easily have a build up not knowing where the events are leading to and the character only knows the stuff at the end of the day. Sure they made it out of the boss room, but they need rest...

A lot of people seem to forget why we ended up where we are. The explosion of the self-published novels and other online serials was a result of Mushoku Tensei, Shield Hero, (and to a lesser extent) Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, and a few other novels at the time. All three stories mentioned had...