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How do you use the rating system on an individual/personal approach?
Ratings are important to me, cause I enjoy revisiting things I’ve read before. I found that this approach the most helpful, instead of being a critic, without thinking too hard lol
: there’s something that I hate about this
: there’s something I dislike about this
: rather neutral, mixed bag, unsure, meh
: there’s something that I like about this
:there’s something I love about this
Really want a zero for killing recs, and 6 star for boosting recommendations.
For me, I definitely don’t think I’m doing it right but I typically just do 5 star ratings for the boosting recommendations. The jump between 4 and 5 stars seems too drastic for me, with 5 stars basically rating it a 10.0 and 4 stars rating it a 8.0, so I typically leave my normal 4 star ones with no rating to not drop the rating if that makes sense. I only rate 4 stars if I really do think they are like a 8.0 rating, but overall, I usually do 5 star or no rating. Very rarely do I do anything below that because I probably dropped it before even getting that deep into it.
It’s not the worst approach either because when going back and looking at my lists, I know which ones that stood out to me and really enjoyed because they made me want to boost them and give them a 5 star rating :D
I rarely rate, and Always 5*.
The problem is that when you look at the average, below 9.1 is "bad".
And many stories with 9.1-9.4 don't deserve it.
So I only rate the 8-8.9 that the idiots sank because it's different or the 9.5+ which are really, really good.
i usually put one star when i think there is something genuinely twisted about it like cp or proship stuff, and 5 stars when i think it deserves the world. no in between lol
I love this site, like genuinely, I live here.
But just because I enjoy something doesn’t mean it can’t be better!
I want a fourth button, after reading, read, and want to read.
Desperately I want a skip button??? Or a pass button??? Banished??? or a ive read the summary and I don’t want to have to read it again cause I have a goldfish brain and pretty covers clickbait me repeatedly???
So I want a section that I can just- call it the shadow realm button. I’m sure some sick fucks would love to see what sick fucks banish to the shadow realm, even better once you banish something it doesn’t return to the recommended for you.
What other features are y’all daydreaming between scrolling?
Sort by rating, sort by manga/manhwa/manhua (I know we have the sort webtoons for now), better tagging or reviewed trigger warnings, starring and accessing favorites. Also I know the site is recovering from being broken, but the categories (yaoi stories in shounen ai category for example) and marking stories as ongoing/completed need to be better maintained.
I spent real money to read the novel, but not enough, I’m only at 26 out of 40 and the manwha is currently at chapter 14 ish for the novel
good quality translation btw! Worth it if you like PAIN AND SUFFERING. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Spoilerish review so far
So this is melodramatic as fuck, a problem of values and fundamental existential angst.
Sion is crazy, but honestly, it is very interesting flavour of crazy, while Sunwoo is so damn real it hurts.
What might be frustrating thorn in their relationship is the fact that it really was love at first sight for our twisted top. The problem is the first time he sees Sunwoo is while the bottom is being bullied and beaten by the OG bully.
The heart breaking part is that almost right way the Sion or at least a couple days of rumination that he thinks to himself “I’d just be nice to him to get into his pants, beating him won’t get me laid????” And it’s like yeah. No shit. But it’s that, the ethics of the ulterior motive THATS really on display in this story.
A lot of BL’s have like central stories/fairy tales/themes they draw from. This one draws a lot of bible talk actually which was surprising but the one that Sion used to rationalize his feelings is one where he contrasts himself with the OG bully.
The story of the sun and the wind making bets on who could strip the traveller. Sunwoo is the traveller, Bully is the wind, and Sion is the Sun.
Anyways it’s definitely one of those learning what love means the incredibly hard way.
It’s gonna get absolutely NASTY in the next chapters,
Sunwoo is incredibly hurt and feels betrayed and Sion doesn’t understand why because in a way he really was only nice to him, even though he is absolutely crazy possessive and horny.
But the SA is light so far, during their fight there was some SA, but they did not go all the way so far. But they do beat the shit out of each other so if you don’t like physical violence brace your heart. Because Sunwoo does not take anything lying down.
Grain of salt, about the SA though, haven’t caught up yet, might cost me 15 dollars to read the whole thing lol
I'm dropping this. Thanks for the spoiler
Where are you reading the novel?
https://novelib.com/story/possibility-of-change/