A very large amount of chapters. I know it sounds weird but seeing a story that has 400+ chapters is very off putting. Because to me it signals that this story really should have ended ages ago or this story is really really slow paced. (Or your milking it for money). No hate to those who have written that far but come on you must be bored by now right?
For me there are a bunch of red flags that I skip. When it comes to browsing through a list, harem and smut are immediate no gos. In the synopsis elements that usually are red flags are bad grammar, revenge in combination with cold and ruthless MC and romance. Of course a synopsis also needs to appeal to me (same goes for the first chapter) but I think those are the main red flags.
If it's marked as part of the Girls Love genre, but actually has the "Male protagonist" tag... That is not a yuri - that is, if we're being generous, a "Girls Love Subplot" tag.
If you don't know which is which, hold your peace and use neither. Male harem novels do not belong under that genre no matter how you delude yourself.
Most things under the Gender Bender genre, unless it also has the Transgender tag and looks like it's not wholly about transformation or gender.
Also "loli/shota", rape or brainwashing tags, BDSM smut (don't trust the stuff here anymore, it's never normal), 99% of things with a Male Protagonist tag...
Ah, and the "Manly Gay Couple" tag. Nothing loses my respect faster than that tag.
Normally, anything that actually belongs under it cuts out all rationality, personality and self-control from its characters, in the name of meeting pathetically strict gender roles.
Like, yes, your character broke his love interest's nose on first meeting and often goes into long sulks about being emasculated. Please do tell me what a stud of an "Alpha" he is and how terrible those "weak, girly soy boy" BLs are.
I honestly think the only justified use of this tag is if you're writing JoJo fanfiction.
Which gets the people who don't want to read it annoyed because you didn't tag it.
And by nature of the search engine, you can't specifically exclude the subplot tag if you want to include others, or filter it in the releases, unlike the genre one.
There's always someone going to tell you it's better a different way.
Which gets the people who don't want to read it annoyed because you didn't tag it.
And by nature of the search engine, you can't specifically exclude the subplot tag if you want to include others, or filter it in the releases, unlike the genre one.
There's always someone going to tell you it's better a different way.
You can add a warning in your description, if you're that worried.
The series finder absolutely does allow you to specify separate tags to include or exclude.
I've never seen anyone who uses the genre for "mere practicality" - they genuinely believe one fanservice side couple makes them a yuri that yuri lovers want to read.
I've never seen anyone who uses the genre for "mere practicality" - they genuinely believe one fanservice side couple makes them a yuri that yuri lovers want to read.
I don't read much yuri, so I can't confirm nor deny the first part, what I have seen however is people getting quite upset at instances that weren't tagged.
And as for the second: Blanket statement and or gatekeeping.
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I dunno. I guess harem? Or maybe r18 stuff? Yeah, weird. I'm on scribble hub and I don't even read r18. Anyways, Back to the point... I can't think of anything.
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I guess child mc who is always treated like a goddess or God for no reason.
I can tolerate people who look like 12 years old but is actually older than that like some immortality shit or reincarnation shit but please, no 5 years old(even reincarnated ones) being treated like some god letting her do everything that you adults should do.
The only time that I remember tolerating this thing was because of age progression.
This is a small list of the things that turn me away from just the first chapter.
No cover (it usually means they aren't committed yet)
The story having over 10 chapters but less than 5,000 words in total.
Walls of text without breaks
Lacking basic character or scene descriptions
Political pandering or social pandering no matter the group being pandered too. (Having commentary about political or social issues through the characters or plot is fine though.)
Harem and LitRPG tags are a no-go for me. Then, the synopsis. If it has grammar mistakes or weird writing, such as THIS or tHiS, I stop reading right away. And then, the mix between a bad synopsis with the BL, GL, GB, Sport, and Martial Arts tags.
I couldn't bother to read more and won't force myself to if it just bores me from the get-go. well, others might say it would start to get better around 100 chapters or so, but I'd rather spend my time on things that I immediately would like and stick for long.
and it's kinda hard for me to pick up new stories. so many stuff doesn't interest me anymore.
It's totally a mixed bag of junk candies. I really don't know how good it would be or of I would like it or not.
Especially if the MC just hit it off with the "waifus"/"husbando" character without any challenges or difficulty.
Especially if the waifus character has troublesome or extremely bad red flag for friendship/relationship, and the MC just do it easily while many other person in that world didn't go with that person.
And I'm angry that those people that wrtire within fandom just write story about how MC get used to the world easily and meet the characters.
People should be suspecting MC for their too suspicious knowledge, or even disgusted for their attempt at approaching the "waifus"/"husbando".
And MC shouldn't go straight to the main characters, because there's a lot to explore and many stuff is different from our world. Especially if those animes were made in 2004-2008, the old technology would bring nostalgia and feel of alienation to the MC, and how did they find living place and not becoming homeless is also very questionable.
If I'm teleported to some old animes like DxD/Fate/other anime less than 2010, I would ignore the main characters and just enjoy the technology and feel the nostalgic memories. I can't stop JK Kennedy Assassination, let alone stop world destroying event, especially if the main characters would naturally solve it.
except if you're teleported to one of horribly written scribble hub fic with lots of tragedy and clear bad ending that you can solve, in that case go ahead and try to save your ass. If you're not terrified and feel frightened just to move, because you don't have the guts to destroy the world ending tragedy, which everyone feels that too.
That's why I prefer to stay at one fandom so that the author can focus at one aspect and not just fuck around with those important characters.
But anyway, I think I need to go ahead and read nonfiction book to not file my brain with too much trashes.
Fanfics. Especially if it's multiple fandoms. This is a frigging hobbyist site, nobody's gonna raid you shaking their spears for having bad ideas, plot and characters. So at least commit to it completely. Inspirations are great, but fanfics are outright stealing. Hold it right there, criminal scum!
When a character gets/buys a slave of the opposite gender less than 5 chapters in the story. You just know it will turn into totally-not-japanese-harem-animu-novel #12343564758432615283943827123432.5.
harem seeking characters. Never got the need to collect trophies or fill the pokedex, so...
protagonist being the only one doing X/getting X done. Yeah, nope. Not buying it. Coincidences bordering on deus ex machina are alright, if explained but MC going "hey, uh? Ever tried knocking on that door to get the godslaying blade behind? Maybe they'll just opem it" isn't genius writing (unless it's a parody).
Gender bending to have "straight GL", you either go full lezz or just leave 'em with their sausage, but no "oh well, time to be an alpha male with tits wearing a skirt". I don't mean stories about coming out or transgender stuff. I mean the GL harems especially.
So yeah, harems, harem tropes and bad writing in general are red flags that make me drop or outright avoid stories faster than bombs on an air raid.
imagine you're browsing through scribblehub for a new story to read, what kind of things that would instantly make you "nope" and just close the tab and start looking for another story to read?
assuming you're not the kind of person who will read through anything you stumble into at first no matter how terrible it is.
for me: the status board in the first chapter.
I will definitely close the tab and stay away from any kind of story that mentions the main character has xx/xx hp point, xx point of str, age, etc at the very first chapter without even explaining anything about what the hell are those status parameters are worth.
For me its the mc being like "o there's a stupidly weak elder ill hide from him and hide my power even though I can destroy the universe with one snap" ps I fixed ur grammar in ur question ur welcome
The first time I tried to read it, I got a headache at the first chapter and dropped It.
It is only later after finding out another story by the same author, likable I decided to check on that Story.
And here I am almost addicted to that story.
Poor me.
For me it would be three things: harem and smut, that combination vary rarely ends well, misunderstandings in tags, because they are, great majority of times, either completely stupid or completely unfunnily exagerrated, and boy's love, because I don't like the genre.
Generally there are way too many things that might put me off to list them all, but those are the main three at the moment.
When the author feels the need to bullet point features of the story. Now, I've probably listed features of games and stuff myself, but telling what a fiction is like beforehand like this, particularly with "if you don't like then leave" says that alot of people have basically commented badly on this. Just write the synopsis then quit. Ranting about what the webnovel had tends to seem desperate to be liked when at the same time nervous of harsh comments. That screams "This person probably doesn't know what he's doing."
You under estimate how entertaining a fan fiction can be if you replace characters in them. It takes away the need to write background and let’s you go straight to the point. Also pretty fun to do as an author.
