《Wattpad 101: Your guide to the world of Wattpad》100 Reasons Your Work Isn't Getting Stars
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1) Their browser is wonky and won't let them star on your chapter.
2) They forgot to.
3) They did star, but the browser glitches out.
4) They meant to, but a sudden emergency got in the way.
5) The reader is a bot trolling for personal info and has no interest in staring.
6) They only clicked on your book by accident and immediately closed it out.
7) They thought your story was something else.
8) They don't want to sign in to Wattpad.
9) They thought giving someone 1 star is a low rating, but couldn't find the 5 star button.
10) They thought the star button was like a downvote.
11) They thought giving you a star would be interpreted as sarcastic.
12) They are another author, and want their book to outcompete yours by deliberately not staring.
13) They think there are only so many stars available on their account so they use them sparingly.
14) They assume other people will star your work so they don't have to.
15) They find stars offensive.
16) They find clicking offensive.
17) They find specifically clicking stars offensive.
18) They broke their clicking finger and found themselves incapable of clicking a star.
19) A star murdered their brother, and they didn't want to "let the star win" by clicking on it.
20) They once dated a star who broke their heart, and thus they swore to never let another star tempt them.
21) They have a specific visual impairment that keeps them from seeing stars.
22) They were repeatedly struck in the head while reading, and thus thought the stars were imaginary.
23) They are pessimists who decided life is meaningless, and thus see no advantage in staring.
24) They believe they are in the matrix, and by staring they reveal their location to their robot overlords.
25) They believe if they click on the stars, they let the terrorists win.
26) They don't want to vote for a star, since they're pro-triangle.
27) They think the star system is run by the illuminati.
28) It's a conspiracy of the illuminati deliberately to not star your work.
29) ...as pushed forward by the lizard people.
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30) They think voting on the stars will cause them to lose their souls.
31) They live in a country that's not allowed to vote and fear repercussions.
32) They have blurred vision and see two of everything and clicked on the wrong star.
33) They hate your work.
34) They hate you as a person.
35) You once slighted them, and this is their vengeance.
36) You once slighted them in a previous life, and this is their vengeance.
37) You once slighted them in an alternative timeline, and this is their vengeance.
38) Your work has in some way offended them on a fundamental level.
39) They're assholes.
40) They're teenagers (Read 39)
41) They have ADD, and as they went to give you a star, oh, look, a bird!
42) They have social anxiety, and aren't ready for this kind of commitment.
43) They already starred a lot of chapters today and said 'if they had to click one more star, they'd lose it.'
44) They can't tell the difference between grey and yellow, and thus decided the star was already clicked.
45) They asked their good friend to click the star, but they ended up not doing so, causing a rift between the pair of them that lasts for a lifetime.
46) They're lazy.
47) They're a sadist who want to make you cry.
48) They thought your work just wasn't that good.
49) They thought your work was too good, and couldn't be honored with just a star, so in the end they give you nothing because the work speaks for itself.
50) The universe split into two, and we just happen to be in the universe where they didn't star it.
51) The universe is pre-determined, and thus they never would have stared your work, it was meant to be.
52) They are the Batman villain Two-face, flipped a coin, and it landed on tails, so no star for you.
53) They're a ghost on the internet, able to view pages, but unable to interact with the realm of the living.
54) They feel if they starred you'd get a big head and your quality of work would drop.
55) They thought the button was a Shrodinger's Box situation, and they feared to click the vote and collapse the function.
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56) The last person they voted for mysteriously disappeared, and they feared you'd be next.
57) Wattpad paid them to not star your work just to keep you down.
58) They are morally opposed to the Wattpad ranking system.
59) They are morally opposed voting.
60) They're too young to vote, and take that fact very seriously.
61) They're under 12, and thus technically not allowed to be on this site, but think if they look but don't touch, it is fair game.
62) They're paralyzed and have to control the internet through a series of blinks, but no star press blink exists.
63) They have dialup and it takes 30 minutes to star a chapter and they just don't have that kind of time.
64) They had a heartattack just as they read the last word of your chapter but before clicking the star.
65) They let the power of staring people get to their head, and formed their own religion instead of staring.
66) They read Shakespeare and thought "To star or not to star, that is the question." Then they didn't star.
67) Their internet crashed just as they were went to star.
68) Their significant other called to break up with them just as they went to star, and thus became distracted.
69) They're dyslexic and couldn't figure out what the Tove button is.
71) They work for Wattpad, and feel it would be a breach of ethics to star on any given book.
72) Your book caused them to touch themselves, and thus they didn't have a free hand available to click.
73) You said a single sentence they didn't like and so they won't vote.
74) You made a single grammar mistake and they're a grammar nazi, so no vote.
75) They think they can punish you by not voting.
76) They read 'If you give a mouse a cookie..." and are now afraid if they vote they'll have to take you to the beach and a series of other escalating scenarios.
77) They fear a single click will cause a cascade effect through history ultimately leading to the destruction of humanity.
78) Someone came back from the future to stop them from voting for your book to prevent aforementioned destruction.
79) You... just suck...
80) They don't even read English, they just wanted to see what the website looked like.
81) They know every word in the English language except the word vote, and are thus confused by the starring process.
82) They think their PC is touchscreen and can't figure out why they keep clicking on it and it doesn't trigger.
83) They saw you star your own work and figured that's enough stars for you.
84) They're afraid you'll stalk them if they reveal they're reading your story.
85) If they starred on one chapter, they'd have to star on all of them, and they just don't want to take on that kind of responsibility.
86) They're addicted to stars and trying to quit.
87) They've read too many creepy pasta stories and fear if they star on the wrong fiction it'll eat their soul.
88) They're Republican and think you should get your own votes. Why, when they were your age, noone handed them votes, they had to earn them on their own from the ground up!
89) They're Democrat and think your votes should be given to those more in need.
90) You didn't vote for them, so they won't vote for you!
91) Their browser just happens to accidently hide the vote button.
92) They don't see you as a person, so they don't care to vote.
93) They decide there are so many books on Wattpad, so what's the point in voting anyway?
94) They fear that by voting, they'll affect your mood and attitude, thus influencing your creative genius and changing the outcome of your work.
95) They received a call from a mysterious person that told them they'd kill their family if they voted on your work.
96) They feel you stole your work from them.
97) They're stealing your work and posting on their account, and don't want to risk you seeing their name.
98) It's Trump's Fault.
99) 9/11
100) They just don't want to.
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