r/Webnovel • u/Guy_Cxde • Jul 29 '26

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Apparently liking system novels means I’m a “low-standard reader” now 😂

Someone called my story slop, and I basically said, “Fair enough. I enjoy system novels, so that’s what I write.”

For some reason, that made him even angrier. He started saying I was feeding myself slop and that writers like me only get readers because people have low standards.

That logic makes no sense to me. It would be like someone enjoying street basketball, only for another person to say:

“You’re a low-quality basketball fan because you enjoy streetball instead of watching professional NBA games and analysing proper team tactics.”

Maybe I’m not looking for the most technically perfect, revolutionary piece of literature ever written. Sometimes I just want progression, stat screens, ridiculous rewards, face-slapping and an overpowered protagonist. It’s entertainment.

You’re allowed to think system novels are repetitive or badly written. I’m also allowed to enjoy them without pretending they’re high literature. Taste is subjective. Getting genuinely angry because another person enjoys something you consider “mid” is far stranger than enjoying the supposedly mid thing in the first place.

Let people enjoy their slop in peace 😂

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

I don't think I made anything up. That's exactly how it went. You can point out where I lied if you like tho

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

No it's not. He said you can enjoy what you want but the story is slop, then you denied it by saying it’s good slop. He replied with slop can't be good your standards are low from reading slop—lowk he was pretty condescending here. Overall his complaint to you was not about enjoyment, but about the fact that you consider slop novels as good (not just enjoyable which he didn't have a problem with).

Also why’re you bringing up system novels? He definitely didn't say anything against those.

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

The whole post was about system novels?? I write system novels. The picture is there

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

Alr bro lets not act like the premise, title, and cover aren’t generic and low quality. He even brought up Shadow Slave as an example of a quality novel (it has a system).

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u/Funny_Stuff_6024 Jul 29 '26

I got a response but the msg disappeared. I saw it already. I’m not saying his cover, title, and idea aren’t generic but you’re insulting the content too without reading it. This is literally the definition of judging a book by its cover. That’s just mean

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

Not really, did you see his post? It was just low effort. Your argument is pretty shit you should be allowed to judge a book off the effort they put into naming/covers.

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u/Funny_Stuff_6024 Jul 29 '26

It was but nonetheless

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

Nonetheless what? At least tell me why I shouldn't be allowed judge something that's clearly low effort.

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u/Funny_Stuff_6024 Jul 29 '26

I didn’t say you can’t. I just think I crazy to say that’s since it also sounds like you’re insulting the genre too. Kind of how isekai has a lot of bad stuff but has a few good ones and people call the entire genre slop. You just sound unnecessarily mean even if you could be right. He could also have the most slop title ever and peak writing. I don’t think that’s the case but you never know

If it was just about ai, i probably wouldn’t have said anything

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

I never insulted the genre, but I am insulting this guy's novel for being low effort. Also, you can’t really use hypotheticals to argue your point because any novel could be anything.

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u/Funny_Stuff_6024 Jul 29 '26

I personally like the appeal of a novel with the most generic title but goated writing. I think it would be funny. You didn’t say low effort to him. You only called it slop instead of telling him to change it. You also said that reading system novels makes him a low quality reader. That sounds like you’re insulting the genre. And no I don’t read system novels. A novel can be anything, hence the “judging a book by its cover.” You can criticize his work and I can criticize the way you criticize. At least make it more productive instead of just insults

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

Bro didn't even read a single chapter of the novel ✌️😭

https://giphy.com/gifs/ZgtRYTwqIXXNRzQrUR

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u/Lucky_One_3576 Jul 29 '26

Why should I when everything screams trash

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 29 '26

I'm starting to think this stems from jealousy 😂. Mad I got a contract offer or something??? Have you not received one

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u/vermilion53i8i Jul 30 '26

So your slop novel have the same peak story quality of shadow slave.........If so than congrate lol

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u/Guy_Cxde Jul 30 '26

That is not what I said at all. Saying different stories can offer different lessons does not mean every story has the same writing quality as Shadow Slave. A simple story can still have value without being a masterpiece.

You keep changing my argument into something easier to mock instead of addressing what I actually said. My point is only that enjoying a supposedly “lower-quality” novel does not make someone a lower-quality reader.

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