Tags and content warning should be enough. I personally dislike when people put a warning in the chapter name or at the start of the chapter. If I didn't want to read something with sexual content or gore, then I would not have opened the novel with those warnings.
If you open a novel without...
By the way, I can even say that I had bad luck. My story wasn't even displayed on the Latest Series list in the home page, but even with this, I was still able to get readers with consistent uploads, using a genre that gets readers. Imagine that.
I am more talking about meeting people where they are at. I don't believe in luck, but for the sake of reasonable conversations, I can use luck in my equation. And the fact is that if you can replicate something multiple times with even having some bad luck, then luck should be tossed out.
That's my perspective as well. What I mean by luck playing a part is not really "luck". I am talking about talent. Some people are just more talented than others. Like if you are born with higher intelligence, I would say that this is "luck". Same with being born to an affluent family.
Well, here is what these authors are doing. They see a Chinatown, and they make a taco restaurant. Then they are surprised that their taco restaurant is only getting one customer a day. No shit, the travelers don't want your fucking tacos. That's not why they came to Chinatown.
You can say it is the fault of luck that a site's preferences doesn't reach your own, but you can't blame luck when you post on that site. That is just reckless driving.
I am so tired of people claiming luck when it's not even close to a majority of the percentage. There is no luck. I have repeated the same results on multiple different accounts with different names. If you can demonstrate results, then luck is almost meaningless. I say almost because there is a...
It's likely not that you are a bad writer. Most likely, you are not adapting to reader preferences. If your goal is readers, you will need to adapt to the preferences of the sites you write on.