Crowd-sourcing HD fan-fair: Progress Report #3 - Take a Poll

[snowgall]

A poll to see how best to label fics: top, bottom, or switching?

We are so close to having completed our hd-fan-fair spreadsheet with all of the information on who tops in each fic! As of today, we are only missing information on 12 fics rated R or NC-17.

Thanks again to cabinetcaligari, cagnurit, eidheann_writes, and khalulu who have all added lots more information in just the last few days. If I

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[snowgall]

Thanks for voting! So in the spreadsheet itself these fics are currently listed that way (bottom-whoever with implied switching) and that won't change. I always like to have as much information as I can about a fic.

But when I run the numbers for top/bottom, there are already 4 categories: bottom!Harry, bottom!Draco, switching, and no penetration. I feel like if I split the categories into further pieces that the analysis would be messier and less easy to follow. In this scenario we'd add two more: bottom!Harry w/ implied switching and bottom!Draco w/ implied witching giving us six.

And maybe six categories isn't such a big deal. However for each of the new categories we'd only be talking about a handful of fics that would be labeled that way, so it seems like mostly what would happen is that the stats would say that oh 4% of fics do this or that. And I'm not sure that makes the picture any clearer.

But I do understand why you feel that they don't fit so well into either category. That's why I thought I needed a poll :) I hope that if I end up putting these few fics into one category or another that it won't really skew the stats very much.

The nice thing is, if it really affects the stats we still have all the data and could easily re-label them and run the numbers again. That's why I'm so happy that the data will be public. And as I mentioned to gracerene, different labels are good for different purposes. The purpose of deciding which fic to read is different from the purpose of seeing what the trends are in fanfic.

Anyway, that's how I think about it. Does that work OK for you? I really appreciate that you took the time to vote and leave a comment, and I hope you don't feel like I'm just sweeping your concerns under the rug ♥

[kitty_fic]

Oh, yeah that makes total sense :)
I'm totally impressed by your organization! :D