I'm probably going to waste people's time, but here's a perspective from that of a writer. I know I have been told multiple times that I have no right to call myself an author, and that I don't deserve to be a writer, and that I should give up because of my lack of talent and f off from the website (yeah, people actually said that to me), but whatever.
I maintain a daily release schedule by virtue of writing quite a few chapters and stockpiling them before I finally took the first step and published them. Obviously months went by and nobody read them, I received no comments, no sign that people were reading them. That was fine, I didn't really care. Then came the abuse, the insults, the bad reviews. Mixed with them were some people who liked what I was writing, and left some comments or reviews. So I kept writing.
Then I fell seriously sick for two to three weeks, and didn't write at all. As you can imagine, my stockpile began running out at an alarming rate. By the time I recovered enough to write, my stockpile was dangerously low to the point I almost couldn't maintain a daily update.
Around this point of time, someone demanded mass release. I had to explain to them that I was busy (I was also doing an eight-week exam on top of having just recovered from an illness) and couldn't indulge them. However, there were quite a few of these demands, and I sort of forced myself to not only juggle with my exam but also try to write 2-3 chapters a day. And as you know, it takes me 3-4 hours to write just one chapter. So I didn't sleep, I didn't eat much, just so I could rebuild my stockpile to ensure a steady daily release (and I was writing 2 stories at a time), and probably start saving up enough for a mass release.
You can probably tell that it didn't turn out very well for me. I fell sick again from overwork, had a fever and stuff. And while I was sick, someone left a one-star review, calling my story garbage and essentially told me to stop writing. Can you imagine how it feels to spend all that effort, invest all that time, overwork to the point of falling sick, just to get a single one-star review telling me my story was garbage and insinuating that I should delete it?
Shortly after that, I had a flood of people complaining about one of my stories, spamming low reviews. I learned that apparently one writer's fans had discovered my story, which was similar to his, and they all decided to downvote it to oblivion so that their favorite writer could climb above me in the ranking or something. Someone even reported me for plagiarism and forced me to delete the story and I did.
That was fine. I got rid of it and focused on my other story. Managed to stockpile enough for a mass release. The second (or was it third?) time I did a mass release, guess what? Some guy comes in with another review, telling me, "drop + delete" - at first I thought he was telling me to drop and delete my story, but later he clarified and claimed that he meant he was dropping it and deleting it from his Library. Okay. But whatever the case, it feels like I got slapped in the face for trying to fulfil the request of providing mass release.
So yeah. What was the point? You might tell me, "do it for the readers who love your story" - but they are a tiny minority compared to the people who hate my story or hate me for whatever reason. You might tell me to ignore the haters, but their words and comments still hurt. It's so easy to tell people to ignore insults, but if it's physical if I got punched by someone in real life, are you going to tell me to ignore it and shrug it off? Just because the wounds are emotional and not physical, just because the wounds are invisible and cannot be seen, doesn't mean they don't exist. Pyschological damage and verbal abuse is not something one can just "ignore" or "pretend" it doesn't happen. They have very real effects on your health and your life.
Perhaps commenters should think about that more before just callously leaving a "this story is trash" review - and best of all, they never actually explain why the story is trash or why the characters are retarded. Just "can't stand the beta MC" (what the hell does beta even mean?) or "the story is garbage." It's so easy for you to take less than a minute to write a couple of sentences condemning my story that I spent hours to write for each chapter. The least you could do is at least elaborate why you think the story is trash or boring, or why you hate the character instead of delivering cruel, throwaway lines that you didn't even give much thought into writing.
You might think it's just words. But words have very real effects on the people you deliver them to.
