OtherCat ([info]othercat) wrote,
2009-08-31 18:36:00
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Stupid Survey is Stupid

Because of the things I've been hearing about this survey, I decided to make a survey of my own.





Poll #1451572 Stupid Survey is Stupid
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

Ogi Ogas Fan Fiction Survey is

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A Joke (Literally; it's an elaborate prank)
1 (5.0%)
A Joke (Figuratively; It's bad science.)
19 (95.0%)
Actually studying something else entirely.
0 (0.0%)
Insightful! Well written and researched!
0 (0.0%)

Do You Write Fan Fiction?

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Yes.
19 (86.4%)
No.
3 (13.6%)

If You Answered Yes to Question 2, what do you write?

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Slash
0 (0.0%)
Het
0 (0.0%)
Gen
0 (0.0%)
Kink/Fetish
0 (0.0%)
Alternate Universe
0 (0.0%)
Adventure
0 (0.0%)
Romance
0 (0.0%)
Mystery
0 (0.0%)
SF/F
0 (0.0%)
Crossovers
0 (0.0%)
Plot, What Plot?/Erotica
0 (0.0%)
Schmoop/Fluff
0 (0.0%)
Comedy
0 (0.0%)
One shots and/or character studies
0 (0.0%)
Something not listed I'll include in comments.
0 (0.0%)

What Are Your Fanfic Reading Preferences?

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Slash
0 (0.0%)
Het
0 (0.0%)
Gen
0 (0.0%)
Kink/Fetish
0 (0.0%)
Alternate Universe
0 (0.0%)
Adventure
0 (0.0%)
Romance
0 (0.0%)
Mystery
0 (0.0%)
SF/F
0 (0.0%)
Crossovers
0 (0.0%)
Plot, What Plot?/Erotica
0 (0.0%)
Schmoop/Fluff
0 (0.0%)
Comedy
0 (0.0%)
Character studies
0 (0.0%)
Something not listed I'll include in comments
0 (0.0%)

Do you think "RULE 34: WHAT NETPORN TEACHES US ABOUT THE BRAIN" is a good title?

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Yes.
2 (9.5%)
No.
2 (9.5%)
Only if I were actually playing an elaborate practical joke.
17 (81.0%)

Do You have an "OTP?" Canon or not-canon?

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Yes. I have a canon OTP
0 (0.0%)
No. I have various (non canon) pairings that I like.
2 (9.5%)
No. I have verious (canon) pairings I like
1 (4.8%)
Yes, I have a non canon OTP
2 (9.5%)
I follow canon and non canon pairings.
6 (28.6%)

Do you think it's possible for the survey makers to be as clueless as they apparently are?

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Yes.
20 (95.2%)
No.
1 (4.8%)

Is Word Count Important?

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Yes, duh.
5 (22.7%)
No, I just blithely type away! I don't worry my pretty little head about it!
0 (0.0%)
This is an inherently silly question.
17 (77.3%)

Fanfic is Srs Bizness!

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Yis
14 (63.6%)
Nah
8 (36.4%)
Tags: fan drama, fan meta, fannish wtf?, poll!

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[info]quackingly

September 1 2009, 02:02:59 UTC 2 years ago

I think I generally only pay attention to word count when I'm trying to write a drabble, or something with some sort of word limit/minimum. Otherwise I just write how much I need to write. (...Which is normally too long.)

[info]othercat

September 1 2009, 02:07:16 UTC 2 years ago

Heh. In this case, the word count question was in relation to something said by one of the alleged researchers. He seemed to think that fanfic writers in general never bothered to see how long a story was. Or record how many words a given story was.

[info]tenmorehours

September 1 2009, 02:10:18 UTC 2 years ago

...Wow, he didn't even bother to look at the Pit, did he? The word count's right there on every story...you can even search by word count...

[info]othercat

September 1 2009, 02:37:46 UTC 2 years ago

I know, the guy's attitude was also very condescending about the fact that the questioner wrote novel and novella length fanfic.

[info]tenmorehours

September 1 2009, 02:43:56 UTC 2 years ago

I think most people that aren't in fandom have a pretty condescending attitude to fanfic. Which I guess isn't always completely unjustified, when you have stuff like My Immortal out there.

[info]beccastareyes

September 1 2009, 02:08:35 UTC 2 years ago

Word count only matters when I'm challenge writing or drabble writing -- for instance, if I'm doing an entry at [info]fma_fic_contest, or if I have a short piece that is 124 words, I might see if I can edit it to a drabble without losing meaning.

Also, "RULE 34: WHAT NETPORN TEACHES US ABOUT THE BRAIN" would make a good blog post title, but I'm skeptical of a serious article. If only because those tend to be a bit more narrow in scope. (Then again, a postdoc in my group got a rhyming couplet in one of his paper titles. I am also an astronomer, so there is no context in which I can use the word 'netporn' in my titles. Unless NASA approves my Neptune Environment & Triton Pluto-analog Orbiter Reconnaissance Navigator mission*.

* Not a real mission.

[info]othercat

September 1 2009, 02:36:09 UTC 2 years ago


This is allegedly for a book, not (just?) an article. It seems silly and sensationalistic to me.

*giigggles at acronym*

[info]beccastareyes

September 1 2009, 02:44:26 UTC 2 years ago

Huh. It seems like one would put it through peer review first. Even a dissertation seems like it would get published eventually -- I know the contents of a grad students papers and his/her dissertation in my department are normally pretty interchangeable. Could be different in whatever field this person is working.

One would think that a study on porn and the brain would be done with some kind of biological test of brain activity.

Acronyms are a secret astronomer skill. I'm told by a friend in exoplanets that a new double-star survey for planets orbiting them was christened TATOOINE.

[info]elfwreck

September 2 2009, 05:53:38 UTC 2 years ago

This post has been included in a linkspam roundup.

[info]othercat

September 3 2009, 00:45:33 UTC 2 years ago

Thanks.
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