I'm sorry, but with the conversations that take place in the Comments area (& really should have another way/place), it needs asking why there's no way to downvote a Chapter/thread? There's no way to add to something that you can't understand, & it's likely that people could fix their own mistakes if they were aware that they'd made them.
Would you want to downvote a chapter because of typos, grammar mistakes or a continuity error though? A friendlier way to point out a mistake would be to send the author a message directly
I wasn't on here back then, but I think there were downvotes when the site first started. As far as I know, they were removed fairly early on as it became clear they were being misused and just became a source of drama and bad feelings for writers. I agree with that policy myself, it's just a source of negativity if writers are being spammed with downvotes for writing things that may not be as popular or whatever, and mistakes can just be pointed out with a comment or DM rather than a downvote that could mean anything. Though comments could definitely use some tweaking, allowing edits/easy deletion or moderation of them for one thing.
"I dislike your story" is pointless feedback. Dislike why? Grammar? Style? Story? Not your fetish? It is impossible to determine from a thumbs down. The author learns nothing except generic "you suck." Do you think it is good if an enthusiastic inexperienced writer writers a piece of crap and witnesses "deserved" 5 likes\20 dislikes on their first chapter? They won't be like "Yay, I should improve!" 9 times out of 10 it will be their last chapter.
Would if I could. ALSO, should certainly send the message figuratively that something is wrong with it, so it doesn't continue.
So glad there's no downvoting. What a dismal thing that is on sites that have it. It's so easy to not read something you don't like. So easy to not participate. Just ... do something else. Who benefits from a downvote? Nobody. I'm grateful such a system is not in place here.
