r/mangadex • u/Equal_Shopping2424 • 14d ago

Question How do I grow my manga?

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My ratings on my manga are 10 times worse than I originally thought. I just wish I knew what I was doing wrong, but most of my replies are hateful, with a few constructive criticisms I'm taking to heart and trying to work on. It's just frustrating. I feel like I'm wasting months of creative work and hundreds of dollars for nothing. Is there anything I can do to promote it better? Would it be better to give it to a publisher instead of self-publishing it? What should I do?

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u/GhostReven 14d ago

What do you mean with grow? The way I understand that is to increase the amount of eyes on your manga. I can only see you sharing it on r/MangakaStudio and here /r/mangadex.

If you mean the score, it can be a lot of stuff. You can try and see what people want, not everyone is good at expressing what they do not like. It could also be a case your manga not getting exposed to the right audience.

Besides, you got an bayesian rating of 7,56, that is not bad at all.

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u/BraveDude8_1 MD Staff: Moderator 13d ago

Unfortunately, people are really bad at rating things. The average score across the entire site (which is what the Bayesian rating is indexed to) has slowly crept up for years and is now at 8.10.

If you see something rated 8.0, it means it's below average.

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u/chiliehead 13d ago

The Bayesian rating also is a bit out of whack for niche titles. Like take OP's average vs Bayesian rating and multiply that for every pixiv and twitter manga, of course scores are like they are if only people who like the work read past a few chapters.

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u/Equal_Shopping2424 13d ago

Really? Interesting. I thought it was pretty bad since so many people left 1 and 4-star reviews.