I agree, I won't say delete but hidden instead, meaning only the author can see them. Then, once they are updated again, they can be unhidden and reappear once again in the searches. It's also weird how authors can't even properly delete either.
Too many damn dead books on the site. I taught this was a professional site.
I agree with ya. As much as we hate it though, once we upload a book on the site, it would be there forever. Meaning to say, we can't unpublish a book we published here in webnovel. We could change the title and the like but the published book would remain. That's probably why there are too many dead books.
I'm one of the authors who get crestfallen after seeing those as well. But as an author, I just gotta do what I can and have faith in my book. That's how it goes in this line of work, I guess.
This is not really a diss post, if I may say. It's more of a splash-of-reality post since it does be like that. I hope you won't get attacked with this post since it's the reality. :))
DaisukiDayoSenpai but sometimes we could still get attacked when trying to show the true reality. 
Lmao I bet a bunch of people who made a book just for the author badge regret it lmao.
Dante_Carter_6387 I can see eye to eye with you on this. I admit, I am disappointed by the fact that most of the fan-fics have very few chapters, yet I am still happy that I can find some few good exceptions. I mean, if some fan-fics fall under the category of "short stories", then I would give it somewhat of a pass, but yes, I see your point. One story I wrote in the fan fic video game category that I started back in May currently has around 36 chapters.
Dante_Carter_6387 You didn't check all the categories. I update up to four chapters a day and am 100's of chapters in updating steadily without break, and I know lots of others like me. If you look you can find them. It's just hard because webnovel doesn't categorize by newest updated. If there was a button that sorted by this criteria it would be absolutely amazing.
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Dante_Carter_6387 I somewhat agree, but don't believe chapter count means anything. A completed story should not be removed simply because it's not an ongoing thing. Incompleted works should be discarded once it becomes clear the author is no longer working on them.
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Writing here, especially for fan fiction, is predominantly a hobby.
Books can't be deleted from view and off WN servers. So all that can be done is mark a book gone or leave what's there and run.
Dante_Carter_6387 You're such an oddball lol. Fanfiction . Net is the main place for fanfics. Don't ban me please lol.
Fan fits are stories written by people who have some spare time and passion. Fanfics rarely is ever grt monetized since the story is owned by someone else. So they kind of flare up then their passion dies and it gets dropped.
Veronica8 I honestly disagree, if you drop a novel you can create a google document transfer all your work there and then delete it so it has no chapters. That way throw away novels are not cluttering up the site. Yeah sure it will still show a title and a book cover, but when someone clicks on it there would be 0 chapters nothing to read. Honestly all authors should be doing this. You don't lose the work and you don't clutter the site either. Since webnovel makes it impossible to delete novels.
GegeSadewa Yeah, it's the sad truth.
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Fan Fic?
You should check the video game section instead of fan fic. The King Avatar is quite nice and is pretty long and completed.