Buller Wrote: Kana confirmed a good while ago it was total views in the last 7 days. Nothing else

Whelp, FML  

The story - who cares? About RR readers - alot. 

Turiya Wrote: It's kind of funny how for all the anti-harem, anti-sex, anti-stereotypical isekai sentiment that gets bandied about on the forums, a very stereotypical isekai with 'harem' in the title (SLAVE harem! I can't get over the audacity of putting that in the freakin' title) is on Popular This Week. Just goes to show once again that the forums aren't representative of the readership.

It's a kink. Nobody is reading these sorts of books going: "This is what the world should be like again, this author gets it." They're reading it like you would a saucy twilight fanfic with BDSM rules put in the world.

Nobody is going to defend CNC to any normies out there. And yet, in national studies, it was found that almost two-thirds of women fantasized about CNC and 60 percent of respondents fantasized about bringing in some aspect of pain into sex. (Source: google fucking search results everywhere) 

Humans are kinky mofos. And very shy about being upfront about it.

Anyhow, getting on PTW is just a numbers game. Post chapters everyday and have a fun story with some kind of hook. Done. It's easy, the hard part is actually writing that much for that long. It's a lifestyle change rather than a hobby for writers on the PTW level. 

Bresandor Wrote:

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I should clarify that when I said I found it audacious, it was more in the sense of head-shaking admiration than offense or affront. I'm certainly not brave enough to post a story with a title like that, is what I'm saying. I'm also not worried about the author or readers being real-life supporters of slavery, nor what they get off to as long as it's legal; my post was meant more to make fun of how seriously things get taken on the forums sometimes. I did a bad job getting that across, and I guess that's what I get for posting under the influence...
 

All added readers from this person's other work to here (brought here and may look for others they like) - means those readers may be yours and people following you.

Does it matter if those readers like this type of story?

I like many authors here do not have a problem with it or any real opinion one way or another (I would be a hypocrite if I did lol)  :)

You know what I went digging a little and found the series amazon description: "A fat, poor loser starts playing a new video game, only to end up in a world with magic and monsters. Having picked a support class, he has no choice but to surround himself by powerful allies and battle through life-threatening dungeons to protect what he loves most." 

Honestly I admire the author for just going out and saying it lol.

Edit* Read the authors bio on here and laughed for a full minute. I can see why people like his story lol.

I think we're in an age where we can try out all sorts of different stuff to blend together. So if something sticks, even if the moral aspect isn't my thing, great. More power to the author and I hope he or she makes something cool out of it.

Gratz

Henry Wrote: Surprising how people like to read stories about things that cannot (and should not) happen in Real Life. /s

Time to write a story about digital pirates 

I don't consider stuff I don't like or think sucks being popular to be newsworthy.

Anyways, I'm fine with a protagonist having a slave harem, at least as long as the protagonist isn't kind to their slaves and doesn't treat them as people.

Kinda funny, not gonna lie.

Turiya Wrote: It's kind of funny how for all the anti-harem, anti-sex, anti-stereotypical isekai sentiment that gets bandied about on the forums, a very stereotypical isekai with 'harem' in the title (SLAVE harem! I can't get over the audacity of putting that in the freakin' title) is on Popular This Week. Just goes to show once again that the forums aren't representative of the readership.

At all.  Or even the folks who contribute to the site.  I drop three chapters a week, and have for almost two years now, and I've been on the forums less than a dozen times.  When people are given a free pass to read/watch what they'd like without being tracked (or more accurately, not caring that they are being tracked), they tend to let that freak flag fly. 

Totally ignoring any of the gross debates probably going on that I'm not going to look at, to say that the story absolutely does not fit on Royal Road according to its own rules. Maybe the actual content of the fiction isn't purely smut, but the title, and especially the cover, certainly break the SPIRIT of RR's decidedly anti-smut rules, which are of course there partially because advertisers may drop out of a website with too much sex stuff. The cover literally has a woman taking off her underwear and somehow this has remained on the site for years.

The story's a lot more popular than anything else I've written, but it's terrible optics for Royal Road and likely driving away plenty of potential RR fans who browse the site a couple times, see that story, and bounce. It's a fiction much deserving of, uh, Scribble Hub lol

I just don't understand why anyone cares. I'm not a fan of this kind or social justice morality pushing.

It's certainly a story I find distasteful and would not read, therefore I am just not going to read it.

I don't understand why I should try to stop other human eyeballs from seeing it. I'm not a nanny. What people read or don't read shouldn't be up to me.

People should be able to create whatever they want, and if others don't like it they should just respectfully move on and find something else to read.

It just doesn't make sense to me why people in here have to gang up and attack their fellow author because they dislike the story.

What if this was your book that everyone was ragging on?

I don't know. Not trying to start an argument or pick a fight. 

I just think if you really think the book violates the rules, you should report it and move on, but otherwise,  it's just so disrespectful for authors to gang up on and lash out at other authors this way 

The Royal Road has been saved! 

B. Wrote: The story's a lot more popular than anything else I've written, but it's terrible optics for Royal Road and likely driving away plenty of potential RR fans who browse the site a couple times, see that story, and bounce. It's a fiction much deserving of, uh, Scribble Hub lol

I pretty much given up on RR being anything other than what it is at this point.

Edit: In saying that, the majority of the readerbase wants certain things, there is nothing to be done about it at this point.

Woe is the day Royal Road turns into Royal Harem Road

I don't mind harem stories as long as they don't infringe on the stories I like, like an anti-anti-harem movement, but I doubt that would ever happen.

As much as i appreciates the fact that RR top weekly popular list reflected the readers of the site...
Also, I can't deny the truth about most readers who read indie works are looking for...
Well... perhaps it is due to the weather, the stars on the sky, the moon phase or the influence of 5G signal, or the illuminati finally realised the threat of decreasing human population... There are times readers gets hawny, and will read smutty stuff... Although, I still unable to understand why choose text when there are videos available online for free.

I'll get the "horny bonk" baseball bat ready.

Bresandor Wrote: Nobody is reading these sorts of books going: "This is what the world should be like again, this author gets it."

...oh, you sweet summer child, you weren't ever on /a/ when Shield Hero discourse was happening, were you?