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(a comment I just left as part of a conversation in my last post):
Interesting. I just conducted a not-very-scientific survey of people who define themselves (or at least their journals) as being part of fandom (i.e., I COUNTED THE ACCOUNT STATUS OF EVERY SINGLE USER ON THREE RANDOM PAGES OF fandom_counts *G*). The results were as follows:
Permanent Accounts: 2% (doofs like me who traded away their bargaining leverage for an easy life *g*)
Paid Accounts: 29% (regular cash cows. Mooo!)
Plus Accounts: 21% (making money for 6A via advertising revenue)
Basic Accounts: 48% (everybody else)
Now, as I say, this wasn't in any way a scientific survey, but it was fairly random and I figure 300 journals is a reasonable sample size, and...okay, does anybody know how that compares with the relative account types in LJ as a whole? Because, you know, I suspect that Fandom is more than paying its way...and we're paying a hell of a lot of other people's ways, too.
*note: pre-Plus Accounts, approximately 4% of LJ accounts were paid, thereby subsidizing the other 96%
ETA: on June 13th, m00jew posted after having created a bot which could read all the stats accurately. The true numbers (not horribly off from mine, but definitely different enough to make it absolutely worth looking at) are here.
Interesting. I just conducted a not-very-scientific survey of people who define themselves (or at least their journals) as being part of fandom (i.e., I COUNTED THE ACCOUNT STATUS OF EVERY SINGLE USER ON THREE RANDOM PAGES OF fandom_counts *G*). The results were as follows:
Now, as I say, this wasn't in any way a scientific survey, but it was fairly random and I figure 300 journals is a reasonable sample size, and...okay, does anybody know how that compares with the relative account types in LJ as a whole? Because, you know, I suspect that Fandom is more than paying its way...and we're paying a hell of a lot of other people's ways, too.
*note: pre-Plus Accounts, approximately 4% of LJ accounts were paid, thereby subsidizing the other 96%
ETA: on June 13th, m00jew posted after having created a bot which could read all the stats accurately. The true numbers (not horribly off from mine, but definitely different enough to make it absolutely worth looking at) are here.