What makes you click on a story in a promo thread?

@darthmongoose Kate Holden
Wed, 07 Oct 2020 08:19:11 +0000

@darthmongoose wrote:

I like a good looking cover that looks like the person put some thought into it.

If the cover has any of the following fonts: comic sans, papyrus, jokerman, curlz mt, times new roman, arial or impact, or has amateurish hand-drawn calligraphy, it's an immediate clue that the content won't be very professional. I might be willing to look at stuff like that and give it a chance, but I won't expect the content to be polished.

If the cover is roughly drawn, has poor value balance and/or is hard to make out at a distance, or has a weird, unbalanced composition, that's also a clue that I'll be giving this one a bit of leeway; it's a work by an amateur.

I like a strong description that sets up what the story is actually ABOUT. Like I hate when the description is like "Dave wakes up in a place he doesn't know. What is he doing there? Who is he? Find out in this exciting story of love and fear." Like.... WTF is this about though!? Or worse, they start the description like "Read this on webtoons! [link] A new webcomic by Me, Studio69, updating every tuesday!" Like... no, I don't want to read it on webtoons, I want to read it here, I can see it's a webcomic and I don't care who you are until I see your actual content.

I don't like when a post is really self-deprecating or clickbaity. "This is my trash webcomic I throw together at 4am while drunk, then cry myself to sleep. My mom thinks it's funny. Please read it, I don't get why it has no readers?" or "Don't click this link! HA! Made you look! Is my comic the funniest on the internet!? Comment below! ...haha... why is nobody commenting?". I also can't stand self pitying, whiny posts, especially when they're being arsey at other creators, like "Nobody's reading my comic and sometimes I wonder why I even bother. All anyone wants on Tapas is pandering PC content about gay boys. Could anyone please just read it? I'm a plucky underdog who really cares about making actual original quality content unlike those popular comic creators. Anyway, here's my comic about hero man in the realm of the naughty half-naked cat-girls" Yeah, nah I'm not reading that.