xcares
I did too, lol. My first review was gibberish, but 5*.
Authors deleting reviews
Are you guys perhaps speaking of the story that starts with E? Cause I think I know it. Hard not to when it's one of the top stories in the F section.
I didn't know that there are situations like that in here. Does that type of thing happen often? 
Regius_Sanguis No, I am not. What's the F section? Fanfiction? It's an original story, not fanfiction.
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Oh, and yes, the F section was meant as Fanfiction. 
May I know the sypnosis for that story?
Just a short one is fine, in case it comes up in my screen. I've been looking around and saw this one in the Forums. By reading the amount of replies in here, it looked like it got hella toxic as I scroll down. I'm glad to see that there are some of you guys who can still think with a clear head, despite getting attacked like that.
Regius_Sanguis Yup, we're definitely talking about two different stories then.
Uh, yeah. That's why I asked 
Wow,This post here Changed real fast. From complaint about a novel to self promotion to negative publicity
Demonic_angel Yea, it took a turn in like a day.
Demonic_angel Yea, it took a turn in like a day.
Well, I was somewhat amused by it all.
Gem4Life It would be best to at read at least half of the novel before you write a review. A single review can make a huge impact on what the readers ( who have yet to read the story) decide to do with the story. If it is a half done review focused on only what the reviewer has read of the story it will be negative to the auther and their progress. BUT, honest reviews with straightforward facts are a necessity.
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LostFolk
First impressions are everything to a reader.
The story begins with a hymen check. As in, shes on her back, in a room full of people, and another person is looking up her vagina. Chapters 8-10 have the FL getting assaulted, and never during this time is the ML's touch described positivly. The FL is waifish using uwaahh he's kinda cute, as some sort of twisted justifacation of his actions.
The ML's characteristics are told to us rather than shown. We are given no examples of his cuteness nor his kindness, as I don't think that breaking into your fiancee's room to stick your finger up her vagina is cute or kind.
Its around chapter 17 (iirc), when the FL starts spending time with her new husband, the ML.
See how fast this is going? This is like light speed! Hyperdrive!
I only read up to chapter 51 because thats when the author says it got good, and all the chapters after that are locked. I disagreed, and left a review. Half is kinda an arbitrary number, as new chapters are released and put behind a paywall, half goes from costing me nothing but my time, to my time and money.
After reading 51, I was sure that whole arc could've been slimmed down to around 35 chapters.
Lilliny
Lol, I need your level of enthusiasm for one of my novel reviews.
I've yet to have anyone review past half of my first volume, which changes tone a bit and I feel gets better.
kazesenken
You just have to make me :anger: angery :anger: uwu.
In all seriousness, on chapter three. It reads like a standard isekai right now. The 'twist' really hasn't been put into place at all yet. And the anime refrences really throw me off, because I know exactly what your talking about. But not in a good way. I don't care about sebas or that guy from BlazGreen, I care about your servant old man. I mean, he even has a wife! Thats crazy unique! And he knows how to fight! Thats super cool. Maybe use the refrences less directly?
I started skimming it, which is bad, so I took a break. UwU
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As I said, that was my early writing. Nowadays, it's hard to make any isekai truly unique. The references are there many cause that's part of his quirky, awkward character. Well, if it's not your thing, that's understandable. I don't usually try to tick people off. Not my style.
Btw, this is EXACTLY the kind of opinion that I've been wanting.
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I am an author and I deleted reviews when:
The reviews are only used for EXP, by writing *UTY$$)(&%$% and the score is less than 4 or 5 stars. If they were gonna use my novel for EXP, they better do it decently and not ruin my novel rating by giving me 1 star.
The reviewers write hurtful things because they are mean and just basically lowly human beings. I can't sleep if I keep thinking about the hurtful reviews, so I had to protect my sanity. Example would be: 2 stars review saying "I loooooove the novel, but I won't give it good rating for fear it would contracted by Webnovel and therefore I have to pay for it."
I had two reviews like this in the past and they got me soooo depressed. I wanted to be contracted! It was my dream to be a full time author.
The review was soooo entitled. One time there was a 3 star review saying "This is one of the best novels I've read in Webnovel, but the author is a liar and lazy. She often published her chapters late at night or didn't keep her promise for mass release" (I am a liar??? In 90 days time I published 110 chapters.. and prolly 300k words in 4 months. Do the math.)
Some people can be really evil and hurtful.Sometimes the readers don't understand how reviews work. They would give 1 star and said "I loooooove this novel. It's awesome!"
Are you for real???One reader was only on chapter 0 and gave me 4 stars, writing "I don't like it. The story is average. If you have a good taste like me, you'll understand what I mean."
Even though it was 4 stars, I didn't see any added value and I also thought it might be just another EXP review. There was nothing about what is good or bad from my novel, and what I could improve on, or what other readers could learn from their review. So I deleted it.
So, yeah... I do delete bad reviews, but only when it was justified. My novel's rating is 5.0 from 143 reviews and the other one is 4.9 from 2400 reviews.
https://www.webnovel.com/book/13038754206496605/The-Alchemists
https://www.webnovel.com/book/13062785205524305
I do have one reader who keep giving me the same reviews (maybe 10) but how could I say no to her, she had been supporting me for months and maybe no longer has anything to say. She now just give 5 stars review with hearts or thumbs up. I don't delete those, but I also don't like them.
I understand if authors delete reviews with their own reasons. I really like this function, to delete bad reviews from authors' side, because malicious reviews that cannot be deleted can make authors depressed and lose the desire to continue writing. I think in this context, it is better to protect the authors than the readers, because authors are the ones who have to work hard to create content and just like most artists, depression/frustration can kill their creativity.
Authors who keep deleting reviews without justifiable reasons will lose readers, or losing people who would review their novels. In the end their novel will suffer.
kazesenken
No I mean, you just kinda tell us what he's modeled after, instead of showing us the characteristics you pulled from those butler type characters. I wanted to be able to think: oh wow, he's like x, y, and z. I even looked up the guys name from BB, and he for sure wasn't named in your book, but thats who I immediately thought of. Pietro is now Valkyhein. He better turn into a literal wolf and air dash, or else.
It's a bit weird because after, your character stops telling us who he exactly is, and tells us what he's like. Its this weird specific-to-general thing that just threw me off. You dont do this with, uuuh, Eyrn or Carina, so why with Pietro?
Lilliny
That's what the MC's first impression was. He is guilty of preconceptions. He assumes wrongly, which is why he thinks in terms of references. I actually didn't know that BB character that you mentioned. The MC was just 'oh, it's a stereotypical butler.' He does the same for Carina actually, immediately thinking of her as Cooking Mama.
I actually had no solid characteristics in mind for the first few chapters for anyone, which I realize could be fleshed out now, but that might be the normal trap that I fell into that is common for JP light novels (in which the characters are drawn out) An oversight on my part.