...you entered a competition. People are going to be more critical...because its a competition.
I don't care if your MC is a beta cuckboy like most jap protags.
But if you enter a contest where the goal is well-written characters, imma give you that one star rating. Cuz your MC a beta cuckboy.
See where I'm going with this, friend?
That's not what my protagonist is. And I don't mind them being critical, but at least leave a comment about what you are being critical about?
It's like getting punched for no reason.
You should probably update your description so people know you're actually entering the contest and not doing it for more clicks and change the cover because doing a reverse Google image search makes me think your cover is stolen(apologies if you were the original artist or the one who commissioned it). There's been a few fics that break the rules of the competition and suddenly ninja their way to the rankings, so people might be rating bombing you for that reason.
I didn't even know there were so many rules. I kinda just entered without thinking because there was that entering option. Now, I am fucked. Thank's for telling me.
Besides the cover, which can also be an issue, do you think maybe it might have something to do how you tagged your story? Curious and tried checking your story. Some mentioned about tagging your story properly?
Idk how you can just remove bad ratings cause unless you know its a troll, it could also just be readers reading your story and rating on it based on what they have read and felt about it. Unless they are legit trolls, then you can ask Tony.
There was a slight problem with me adding the girl's love tag. Someone said that you can only add it for when you have a female protagonist. But I didn't find a Yuri tag to warn people that there will be girl-on-girl action. Might be that.
If you added the story to the contest after it started, you may have alienated some of your previous readers. As well as anyone who's playing fair and starting from scratch.
You should also write which prompts for the contest you are writing around in your synopsis, though that's just flavoring.
Probably the biggest contributor is the person who mentioned that you didn't tag your work properly in your profile's message center. If you fix that... Well, it won't get rid of the 1 stars you already have, but maybe more won't show up in the future.
You've also got stories with unpopular tags like NTR. Anyone who looks at all of your stories may get upset. Drawing attention to yourself through a contest is more likely to get you negative ratings than positive ones because of this.
Sheesh, so many rules. I just entered the contest for the fun of it. Didn't know that things would become this critical. I guess that does make sense, entering late, and all of a sudden I am in the top 5. That has to invite hate, that was why I wanted to know if I can delete my ratings.
I was thinking about pulling out when I posted this. But since I can't delete the bad ratings, I might as well go all the way.
It really isn't anyone's fault really. Just imagine an unconventional weapon, or duality of a secret life. You would need to pull gimmicks and dumb down your MCs to target a certain type of audience unless you are going for a far-off niche. Can you imagine pulling off a serious novel where your MC kills another person with a washing machine as a main weapon? I bet not.
Oh, there is that. I think I might be getting one star because the protagonist doesn't fit the criteria. It's not like he doesn't have a double life. But that is in a much broader sense since he is the hero, the prodigy, and all those things for the people. But at the same time, he is the Satan that everyone fears. But that is hard to understand if you don't read the prequel. As for unconventional weapons, as a human he is an inventor, so most of his weapons are unconventional, like the dice that could turn into a trap. Spherical ball is actually a mechanical beehive to spread poison or surveillance through microscopic cameras.
I am not even sure if you can call them unconventional. Now, I am just ranting over the bad ratings.
You just scared the shit out of me, and here I thought it couldn't get worse.