Oreo
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I concur,
I've literally stumbled across reader accounts that I'm certain were registered/created only to give 1 star/horrible reviews on every novel they come across. Never having anything nice to say at all, and their seemingly impossible to please standards, whilst referencing legends like LOTR and GOT.
Those are called downgrader accounts.From my experience those are from professional authors who failed to make a living, have heard there's money in the webnovel writing space, they tried to post their work but it once again got 0 attention, then jealousy overtook them so they start flaming the **** out of every novel they see. ("How can people read this?!?!?! My story is 1000x better!!!" etc.) It's just pure coping.
Fortunately it seems like it's a rare occurence!
You will be surprised how many of them aren't from failed professional authors. Majority of them have enough readers for the Famous Author title.
Basically, they are just authors who want to thin the competition. They will stop at nothing to prevent your story from being on the rising and trending list. This is why some genres are more cutthroat than other.