Before reading a Prosfic - quick summary

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thank you to everyone who filled in the poll the other day - I had no idea there'd be so many responses, it was brilliant! I thought I'd write up a quick summary for anyone interested (ie, at least me *g*) - (not double and triple counted/checked, because it's quite late on a Friday night here, so if anyone wants to get mathematical and check my numbers, feel free!). Otherwise, some interesting facts from the poll (!):

1) 35 respondants ticked 52 boxes. (This is obviously because I was rubbish, and didn't make box "F) Some other combination, please comment" clear enough! My punishment was that I had to go through most of the comments again to summarise responses properly.)

2) 32/35 people would like to know in advance whether a story is slash/het/gen. (I have obviously screwed up here somewhere too, cos only 2/35 people said they didn't want any information at all, but everyone else said they wanted to know about s/h/g, which should clearly be 33/35 - but wasn't...)

3) 4/35 people liked to know the rating in advance (again, I'm a rubbish poll-writer, I worded it badly cos I forgot that ratings can be used as a positive signpost for when we want the good explicit stuff, so maybe more people would have liked it really)

4) 22/35 people wanted to know whether a story might contain something distressing for them (like death, rape, bdsm) (More than I thought!)

5) 2/35 people didn't want any information about a Pros story before they read it (They'll read anything - even het! *ducks things thrown by co-mods, and pokes tongue out at at least one of them* (*g*))

6) Several people made very interesting points about things like a searchable index for archives, for those lost Pros stories that you know involved a dinosaur, but you can't remember the title or author; warnings for AU and crossovers, and... oh, other interesting things that I can't quite remember but it's worth going to look if you haven't already. *g*

So... *g*... That was fun. We must do it again one day!

Comments

[justacat.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you did this. It's made me begin to seriously look into full text searching for the Archive, which I'd thought about before but then dismissed... There are some options I didn't know about, so it *may* be possible, though I have a lot of work to do before it could become a reality, but it's more ilkely now!

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh well that's good. I'm glad I did it too, just to get an idea of how accurate my assumptions were - pretty accurate, actually! *g*

And let's face it, fandom is alot of work, but we wouldn't do it if we didn't love it, right?!