in theory, your points are all right. in practice, they;'d be much harder to pull off without things turning into a masochistic shitshow where all that's done is shitting on the protagonist as the eventual sole plot point
if my calculations are correct, you're still a very early member. just a very early member of the crowd that joined when SH went fully open and the announcement was made. the only ones ahead of that crowd are us members of the secret guinea pig squad XD
Now, i'm kinda curious as to who the...
oldest account? nah, you're way down the list at 596th to sign up. AliceShiki is 63rd and i'm 69th. Tony's 11th and i think, like, the first 10 were test accounts or something. the details are in another thread somewhere. i believe the number at the end of your user profile page address is the...
this.
also, i would like to point out that romance novels with utterly shitty MLs (you know the kinds) seem to be overwhelmingly written by women both in the west and east which ties into Longer's very good point. 50 shades being a very prominent example (not to mention twilight)
i think you'll find that itself varies between readers. some are extreme purists while others, like me, dont care what's happening in the background as long as it's not a major focus part of the story and the protags actions/relationships match up with the tags. I wouldnt touch BL novels with a...
if it's a novel i'm really into, i'll do it every chapter. if it's a story i follow but not dedicated-ly, i'll heart chapters that i found particularly good.
I do think comments are a clearer way of telling reader interest though.
pretty much. If an EN web novel is scraped by aggregators, chances are it's popular enough on it's site(s) that it registers on their radar as something to scrape. is really handy for the few good EN WNs on webnovel that are paywalled.