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You can judge fiction from just the first chapter. That's a thing.

It is more accurate to say it is judging a chapter of fiction than it is to judge a whole piece of fiction.

You are scaring me, fren.

Sometimes you can tell you won't enjoy a story early. For example, I read the rewrite of "I Built a 'Stress Relief' Artifact to Pay Rent; Now the Silver-Rank Guildmaster Won't Leave Me Alone," and I knew I'd dislike it from chapter 4. Because I am often prone to "sunken cost fallacy," I kept wasting my time reading it all the way until chapter 16 (and didn't enjoy any of it).

Fortunately, ratings and reviews are just opinions; just because I didn't like the "stress relief artifact" story doesn't mean everyone will dislike it. Keep writing your story, and it'll find fans.

@Anonjohn20 and because no futa.

Yeah, you will get plenty of those. You can judge whether you will like a writing style pretty early on.

Well, I didn't meant to word it bad. I am sorry. I was also more using general you both times and not you specifically.

If it's not for me in the first chapter, I don't rate it. But I generally give 5 stars or no rating. I don't like the style of bullying authors by opening the first chapter for a glance to find an excuse to bash their rating.

@Lmae It's a harsh reality, dude. Some people dislike the R* community for a reason.

Well, maybe I just need to get used to it and be more oblivious to strangers.

@JayMark bad ratings aren't readers bullying authors; they're readers interacting with other readers. If reader A went "1 star because I hate overpowered MC" and reader B loved OP MC, then reader B is more likely to read a story despite the negative review.

This is why I think we should switch to thumbs up or thumbs down system. People basically do 1 star or 5 star as is anyway...

It's better to establish a following elsewhere before taking on RR. The readers there think ratings reflect quality reality and the established writers have a hard-on to destroy the ratings of any competition they are able to. I wish bad ratings didn't deter readers, but they do very much.

I’ve gotten more 1* here on SH than on RR, surprisingly. Welcome to the club. It stung a bit but dont let it get to you. Write what you enjoy reading

@Envylope I personally like the stars. I have given bad stories 2 stars rather than 1 and enjoyable stories 3 or 4 rather than 5.