I honestly dont like that it reveals so much info about us. I wish we can at least get the option to decide what to display on our profile
Like yea everyone go and see my pitiful colls haha hah ha...
Just pls dont reveal them
It makes me feel miserable like why u gotta humiliate me like this but then again whatever not like anyone cares about my stuff aynways
Sigh
But yea the update made the profile look much better now
MatchaMilk Yes, I went around and find out there is a female writer with an original book that has more than 700k colls and felt absolutely miserable.
I feel your pain.
SrtaA that just makes me feel even worse haha
Yea thats one bad thing about this, seeing others colls will just make u feel terrible
I think seeing other people's collections won't make me sad since I'm capable of understanding that the reader demographic is what determines the colls and my novel might not necessarily be most people's cup of tea.
But the part where this is kind of exposing an author's comment history brings me shame. As I will admit I have left shameful exp comments before 
. I'm not gonna delete them, cause if I did it I shouldn't hide it and pretend to be a decent person. Just felt it's a bit shameful......
itsmeTuba I disagree about demographics, most books here target the same demographics and not all have the same results. I guess it's a combination of authors skills (because yes, I think they deserve what they get), plus getting enough publicity.
About exposing comments in a single place... Yes, I think the same.
SrtaA
I mean not necessarily. If you write a book about cultivation then you attract certain readers , a book about systems attract different readers and a book about isekai attracts different ones. Yes a lot of these readers might also read other content. One person doesn't necessarily like one genre. But a person who likes fantasy novels might not like romance and so on.
Therefore the reader demographic varies based on what you write.
Personally I'm writing a very unique type of genre: a no action, no romance, slice of life type novel. Now you can't say that people who come here to read cultivation novels will want to read my work necessarily. But there is no guarantee, there might be people who like my novel too. Which is why I have no plans of comparing my collections to someone else's.
A lot of novels here are similar, in that regard the reader demographic should be similar too. But if they don't catch a reader's interest or aren't extremely popular doesn't mean they aren't good.
Popular doesn't always mean good. And I'll say this for webnovels and traditionally published novels too. So comparing yourself and feeling bad is kind of not okay, since your work might be good but just not popular.
I can now see all my badges 
I was just thinking about this this morning haha
AriaKang 3M+ colls? Which monster has this???
SrtaA I think I have to disagree with you, there are lots of hidden gems on this site, the reason why they are stuck at the bottom because of their genres. Most of their plots, and characters were properly fleshed out and planned. The grammars are superb and even professionally written. While when you roam this site there are many, many newbie writers who are extremely popular due to the fact their genre can appeal to the demographic here. But when you disect their stories from story telling, character development and plot they don't even know the basics, some of them cant even properly use english. I dont think popular is always good.
Damn. That's to the point? 
HotRedFlaming Their quality is that they know how to write popular novels, I wouldn't take it from them.
About demographics, I was comparing, for instance, historical fantasy romances against historical fantasy romances (the genre I'm currently writing), and not system fantasy vs urban romance, etc. Inside a same genre and with similar tags, mostly they're catering the same demographics. But I think I was misunderstood.
Then, perhaps the difference between a financially successful and a financially mediocre novel with the same tags and average similar writing skills are probably, one gets better chances of advertising, or a better launching strategy. Perhaps more experience into the WN thing makes things easier. Some use to say writing a lot is the key. I very much doubt it.
Yes, not always popular is better, but not always popular is mediocre just because it's popular.
As example, I don't like Marvel movies in general, and the hero genre is exploited as hell, but I can't take their merits in several fields, including popularity and the money-making factor.
Being a niche writer I fit in the non popular category.
Since we're on popularity. I think there's pros and cons to being popular. Once a story is popular there's set expectations to live up to, by my observations as a nobody. The author is restricted to format and routine. Always under scrutiny it seems. Readers can become like nagging siblings for updates and so forth.
On the non popular side, the books tend to be highly original and well written because there's more freedom for expression and development to make it more of an art form. The problem here is that it's all fancy words if no one wants to read the story. Mind as well call the book page a virtual paper weight. Most of this could be due to a few things: bad timing or luck, theme too complex or far fetched, zero discoverability and site support...
I think what makes a story popular is luck, management support, environment factors and easy enjoyment. If readers are able to get past the shoddy grammar to enjoy the story then that negates any lack of quality standards. A reader has adapted.
I could be wrong on all this. It's based on my observations and experiences, so subjective view.
Veronica8 I think I probably misunderstood
SrtaA I think I have to agree that just writing will bring you nowhere, the best thing to do is read, preferably not just on WN. Ive read a quote that you shouldnt be an author if you cant even read other books. Also now that you made it clear I misunderstood you right there for a second, well at that time I was very sleepy so I skimmed when I read your post, I thought you were referring that all works are open to all demographics, and what attention you garner reflect to the value of your work. Which I kinda not pleased about, since Ive come across some good works that are not given good attention.
HotRedFlaming
Yep, me too.
