Scared of Dropped reader option

[Florestes]

There are worse things that can happen to a story in SH, like having your story deleted or hidden from the main page.

How do you unlock that achievement? Can it happen unintentionally on your part?

 

[Deleted member 80680]

The drop statistic of a story is only created through people who put your story on a reading list marked "dropped". Most likely to filter your story out or remember it as "not for them".

Honestly, those are only a handful of people. The majority of people who'll drop your story (or have long dropped it) are invisible. You might realize it when your overall reader count drop. Or when you get a 5 readers and the count only goes up by 3. But otherwise, there'll always be people who leave your story and some who'll start reading it... I probably saw a hundred or so people drop my story just over the weeks of hiatus or updating statistics by chance. The story is still growing and never really had any dip in the reader count.

If you want to panic, look at your chapter views, comments, or the like. If you see a big drop there, that's a bigger problem... :D

Well shite.

 

[ThrillingHuman]

I have a "paused" reading list for those stories where I'm either waiting for more chapters, or those I'm taking a break from but intend to return to.
Stories I lost interest in for good, or got disappointed by, go in the "dropped" list, so that I don't get burned twice by them.

I've tried keeping several lists, but it felt like a chore so I just left one big list

 

[Monaka]

How do you unlock that achievement? Can it happen unintentionally on your part?

Break the site's rules. One way I can think right now is violating the age of consent requirement. If your story mainly consists of or encourages underaged romance, prepare for trouble.

 

[Shaizic]

I know I will not have many readers and I have more drop readers someday than active ones. so no I'm not worried about it at all.