Yeah, School Days was awful. No objections there.
Your novel is trash if it has harem
Heres the thing, if the so called 'trash' is popular, then clearly alot of people are reading it.
There's a demand so can you really blame the author for supplying the 'trash' that people love to read? Just saying...
If you wrote what you wanted and no one read it, or you made no money, would you even continue to write?
Im pretty sure no one wants to write 'trash', but if that's what people want, then they will.
From what I see, until general preferences change you'll continue to have all sorts of 'trash' recommended to you.
EternalNightLotus Already wrote that in another reply.
Also, no, I don't write for money.
Misguided_Rooster
Neither do I, but I can't speak for everyone. I write for fun, but other people have their own $$$ expectations 
Misguided_Rooster If you hate it so much then why read it?
There is an entire FL section on webnovel filled with one on one romance. Webnovel has a good enough tag feature that most books follow. If you don't want harem just read a novel with no #harem tag
Misguided_Rooster When I was beginning to write novels, I too was against harem novels as well.
My book had a tag #no-harem, lol...
But what happened afterwords was that many readers complaining in the comments sections spouting hate and saying that an MC that the story is stupid because its not harem. To them it was illogical for a cultivation setting to not have a harem.
So yeah, there you have it. It's the law of supply and demand. Honestly, authors would write anything as long as there is demand for it amongst the audience. If there is no demand for a non harem book then an author would probably not write.
And its not really about MONEY. It's simply that being an author you don't want to write a book that on one will read.
So, technically at the end of the day it's the audience's fault not the authors.
If at some point of time, non-harem novels become popular amongst the audience unlike these days. Then I am sure authors would focus more on those kinds of stories.
Shiny_Shirogane But what happened afterwords was that many readers complaining in the comments sections spouting hate and saying that an MC that the story is stupid because its not harem. To them it was illogical for a cultivation setting to not have a harem.
Honestly, you should ignore them. It's your story, not theirs. If they don't like a non-harem cultivation story, they can go read a harem cultivation story somewhere else. There are literally hundreds, if not thousands of harem cultivation stories out there, why the f are they not reading those? Why force a non-harem story to become a harem story that it's not?
Carve out your niche, be the story that stands out from the others by being different. If they want harem, introduce them to the hundreds of harem stories out there, but they have no right and no business telling you how to write your story.
You got pressured into writing something you didn't want to. Your reader base is disgusting, and you have no backbone. Writing, to translated authors and a lot of 'originals', is 100% about money.
As an author, write what you want to write. No one can stop you. But, you should always understand - Certain things will make your novel trash.
I'm only bringing up one or two things right now. I won't even go into depths the sheer amount of problems both original and translated have. Why is that? Exactly because of what you just said.
Readers want this, authors give, it's a buisness. And, a pretty bad one at that.
All I'm saying is, write to write, not for money. Because this will 100% make your book... Biased? Bland? Stupid? Too many things.
If you've read on here for a while you should have a general idea of what I mean. Just a bit of research will also help.
lol, I'll stop here, I don't want to make this more of a rant.
Tomoyuki Exactly. Exactly.
Don't let toxic readers influence you. These are the type of people with the IQ of a baby cockroach. Don't let them infest your house because you let them in.
I understand that perfectly, but there are a lot of problems with this here. Money will turn a 500 chapter novel into 4 thousand.
I just want people to understand the various factors that ruin many novels, the leading cause being money and something else.
If you want money, go ahead and make money. Just know, if you let it influence your book too much, well..
Misguided_Rooster So, the problem is not the harem, but situation and condition has make it into trash for the people that dislike harem? 
I'm bored. What's your favorite color? You said Green? Fuck green
I actually never understood the concept of harem, neither have I sticked around to read any. And neither have I written any, I don't give a damn what others say about my book. It's mine and mine alone 
GegeSadewa I don't know if what I wrote is confusing, my bad. But, the problem is both the harem and how it came about.
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Misguided_Rooster Well, I still think the problem is how it came about. Because eventhough I like harem, there are still alot of harem story I did not like because of how bad the harem is.
Well, in the end it's just a lot of isms that create harem.
Simply put .. Most harems like 95% are trash .. and you know it .. the last 5% is an exception... And I've read many novels where there's no harem tag. Instead there's romance tag then I expect to see a good Romance story but no even there ... And another thing is that .. the majority of harem today is really trash no matter how much you refuse .. I mean every girl in a harem story falls in love with that stupid mc cuz of some stupid ass reason and all the girls talk about SHARING a single boy ...
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Kirisuna1
Yep, novels are ruined by harems. Just sexism, wish fullfilment and greed. If only western authors made their books longer, I would read more of those instead.
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Misguided_Rooster Hmmm, does that mean western authors did not make harem story at all? 
I have yet to not get a skeezy vibe from harem novels. Definitely wish fulfillment and fan service. That's one of the aspects of the Wheel of Time series that I absolutely hated...