Popularity, wank, and reviews: A survey

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I've noticed complaints of people getting more reviews than others, favortism, etc; sometimes, I've been the one complaining. Hence this survey.

 

Part I: Popularity

1. Is it ever out of line for a moderator or admin to state or imply a preference towards a certain fanfic(s) or author(s) somewhere other than a personal blog or profile? (For instance, on a messageboard).

2. Is it ever out of line for anyone to state or imply a preference towards a certain fanfic(s) or author(s) somewhere other than a personal blog or profile? (For instance, on a messageboard).

3. Do you ever feel that moderators/admins ever unintentionally  acknowledge certain authors more than others?

4. Do you ever feel that moderators/admin ever intentionally acknowledge certain authors more than others?

5. Define "favortism".

6. Do you ever feel as though certain types of fanfics are widely preferred? (If so, which ones?)

7. Have you ever felt you would be more recognized as an author if you wrote certain fanfics? Do you still feel that way?

8. Have you ever purposely only read fanfics by certain authors? If so, why?

9. Have you ever felt that people have judged you by your fandom "status" - whether you're a lurker or the owner of a Big Name Site?

10. Have you seen others being judged by their fandom "status"?

 

Part II: Wank (as in to put down a fanfic, not the other definition)

1. When is wank acceptable, if ever?

2. When does wank go too far, if ever?

3. Have you ever been wanked?

4. Has someone you know ever been wanked?

5. Have you ever wanked someone else?

6. Have you ever witnessed wank happening among a site or group you belong to? If so, did you do anything to try and stop it?

 

 

Part III: Reviews

1. When does a review merge from "constructive criticsm" to flaming?

2. Is flaming ever okay?

3. Have you ever quit writing a story due to lack of response?

4. Have you ever flamed a story?

 

Comments

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Part I: Popularity

1. No, cause they are still entitled to their opinions. I like how FA does it, by having the mods put a not at the bottom when they are representing FA, and otherwise, it's just them.

2. I sure hope not cause then asking for rec's would kind of be pointless. The only time I'd consider it out of line is in a comparison post when they are putting down someone else because of the preference. That part of my answer applies to question 1 too.

3. Hell yeah. People tend to rec their friends and the genres they like, so certain authors, the ones that are good with that genre/ship, will tend to be mentioned more by those people. (Kind of like how fernwithy tends to get a lot of mention from R/T'ers and SQ'ers. Our circles color our preferences.

4. Same as #3. We like plugging our friends and our favorites, wanting them to get their props and wanting our taste validated, so yeah some names show up more than others.

5. Someone's junky OOC fic getting onto and "exclusive" archive, or a major wanker becoming a mod at some forum, cause she's friends with a couple of admin there.

6. Slash, Smut, Slashy smut. Draco fic, MPP fic (no Peter of course), Snape fic, Remus fic, Harry centric fic occasionally. SS/Hr, Hr/D. Smut, Slash, Slashy smut.

7. N/A

8. Not really, though if I like an author, I'm more likely to go outside my comfort zone for a fic of theirs.

9. Nope.

10. Of course, I have been to fandom wank.


Part II: Wank

1. When it's a 30 year old making a complete idiot of herself. I put crackpot theories and childish behavior in this categorie.

2. When authors get kicked off a site or leave it, when a new site is formed, when someone deletes their lj over a wank, or considers resigning over one, or when the wank isn't one, just an excuse to rag on someone for no good reason.

3. Nope, and I probably never will. I'm not a bnf, I seriously doubt I'll ever attain that status, and I don't go around writing incredibly stupid and offensive things in public.

4. Does the SQ disaster count? At least one of the people on my flist was involved in that, though the wank happened before she landed on my flist. Um, I guess pheonixwriter sort of too, cause I debated with her often enough at portkey.

5. You mean like posting on F_W? Yep, though my comments tended to be somewhat tangenital.

6. Yep, witnessed wank, told the author that if she didn;t tone it down, she'd likely wind up on F_W and she didn't want that to happen. She ended up sort of toning things down.


Part III: Reviews

1. When does a review merge from "constructive criticsm" to flaming?
1. When there isn't anything constructive about the critique. Even just backing up the crit with what exactly the author does wrong and why it's wrong is enough in my book to give the author something to learn from and keep it from becoming a flame.

2. When the author doesn't give a damn about her story and wants it to be offensive or junk.

3. N/A

4. One really bad H/Hr with DE!Ron, though I did try to explain why everyone was ooc and the fic made no sense. Also one fic that was rated G where Harry rapes Hermione cause she loves Draco and not him. I think I was sort of constructive about that too, maybe.