I wrote a fun little short story with illustration called "Cousins Don't modesty" set in a fictional world where girls are widely considered not to need modesty - it's sort of like the NIS (Naked in School) worlds. It's basically like it was in the 1970s - parents had no problem pulling down your britches in public and spanking your ass, and often felt that if you sassed a neighbor or another parent while you were at their house - they could as well. It's just it applies only to girls in this world.
The fun with this one was that Dalton comes from a family that raised him in the more modern style that we are familiar with - and is meeting his British cousins/babysitting for the first time. I used an Archie comics style for the illustration - but I spent a lot of time customizing them. This is no single button "Zing" press of the AI and out comes the perfect picture. I have hundreds of pictures I generated, and then I lovingly put together the illustration after upscaling and modifying it myself.
As most of you know, voting here is largely toxic/pointless representation of less than 1% of the readers and consist probably of lots of outliers of 1s and 10s.
Often, I've seen the trolls who refuse to read story codes leave comments like "This story included (XYZ) and I don't like (XYZ) so I voted 1/1" even though the codes clearly said it included that. One of the reasons I largely turned off comments is that it's a spotlight for dummies like that to post their dribble.
Yesterday my fun little story was at 7.22 and today, after posting one chapter - grammatically checked, nice illustration custom made, it's 6.7 - meaning a bunch of one-bombers came in and hit the story.
If you were one of those, I'd love for you to write to me and tell me why you do that. I won't argue with you or convince you to stop because it's impossible to encourage you to give honest reviews/fair scores, but I'd love for you to have the courage to tell me why you'd do that to an author who is trying to entertain you and is honest about the codes.
Even if the answer is "I am a troll, and I hate Eddie," or "Your story featured misogyny, and I don't like misogyny," or whatever - have the fucking courage to tell me why you do it. I feel like every vote on this site should have to come with an explanation.
It's definitely a useless metric that does more to discourage new authors than it ever would help anyone find a good story that they enjoy - but it still fascinates me that people do what they do with it.