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Michael_Ryman

Because I am attached to a lot of the community, i like a lot of people on it, the engagement numbers are through the roof, and what works here works far better than any other site I've written on.

I was grumpy when I wrote my last post. The lack of transparency or communication from WN staff, as well as the company's continual disrespect for their readership are what frustrate me. The site and app are both pretty janky, and some of WNs business practices are pretty shady. But I love a bunch of the staff, and I believe they are all doing their best, and I believe in what this community is and could become.

Make sense?

Clowniac
Its pretty obvious on how they are interperating it. If you look at the Explore section "Female Lead" is just a romance section and many non romance female lead novels end up in the male lead section. They are going back on their word, Female Lead means targeted to a female audience.

Clowniac

Lol. You could probably dash off a convincing treatise arguing that the world is flat with one hand while writing your novel with the other.
So you were feeling grumpy, eh? I wouldn't want to get caught stealing apples from your sacred orchard.

Michael_Ryman

Haha, you know, I probably could, were I so inclined to try. XD

And you keep your hand outta my sacred orchard! Them's my apples!

(╯°Д°）╯︵/(.□ . )

Fenryr I got very disappointed when I saw in the explore section that female lead means "variation on romance, teen, or LGBT" and male lead meant everything else.
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL change your headings. This is the international community in the 21st century; not seventh century China.

Manga is divided between Shojo (lit. Japanese for "girl") and Shonen (lit. Japanese for "boy") and I never see anyone complain about it, so why should webnovels be any different? BL/耽美 are considered Shojo in Japan as well.

So, when you choose female lead on your book, it's not to confirm that the central main character is female, but rather your target audience?

Veronica8

It is supposed to mean "female main character". WebNovel is using it wrong. Again. After already having people get onto them about it.

Clowniac I also felt that way.
There’s also the fact that we’ve been asking for strong and non-romance female lead novels.
So I was like: Do they think gay man are women? Boi many of my friends would feel so offended by this... wait, do that means they also think the only strong FL possibility is a gay man? And that there’s no way of not having no romance? What the shell?
Are they afraid of offending male readers by placing the BL novels on the male lead section? That’s so lame...

I feel offended not for there being BL in this pool but by what they being here and not there (the ML one) entitle...
@WEBNOVEL_OFFICIAL bad move...

They could just split the voting into romance vs adventures/miscellaneous. Although I'm not sure where the harems would fall...