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Don't like them for various reasons, but that's assuming that story hasn't been completely written and edited, and it's just being published in small parts. Even then, I'm going to wait until it's all up before bothering with it.
I'm talking now about the stuff that's posted as it's written. My experience is mainly fanfic, but I've run across the same problem with serialized original work. So people may not consider this as applicable to original work, but here it is...
1) I don't know when or if they're ever going to get finished. I've started stuff that I loved where the author just walked away, because they lost interest or found something they wanted to work on more. Some writers don't get enough pats on the back as they go along, they lose incentive to keep going. So unless I know the author really well, I don't have much trust.
2) I'm not confident that the author can keep a coherent, consistent plotline without writing themselves into a hole and not being able to get out of it. I'd rather an author be able to go back and edit their work. Whether that be for anything from spelling errors, grammar, adjusting dialog, adjusting action scenes, or whatever it takes to make the story work the way the author wants it to. Once it's out, they're stuck with the published plot line and dialog, even if it's not working. I don't want to feel like I'm reading a rough draft.
3) I find that for me, time between one part of the story and another is like watering down my favorite soup. Time dilutes my memory of what was going on, who said what, and what I was feeling at the time. Not a fan of huge cliffhangers at all, but like exciting endings. There's a difference. Sometimes I really like a story aprt, but let some time pass and it's just not the same going back into the story unless I go back and re-read parts.
I'd rather just wait until the story is done, has got the author's final stamp of approval, and I can go at it in one sitting so I can enjoy it all at once. And I'm certainly not going to buy a story in parts if I realize that's what it is. It's either a complete story, beginning, middle and end, (even if a series) or I'm not interested.
Been there, got burned way too many times.
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