Hi there! Because I hate myself apparently and am waiting for tags, I decided to do a little playing with numbers. This is purely unscientific, but since there's always people throwing around about how many gen memes there are relative to shipping or smut, I decided to get an idea of the truth of the matter.
So I poured into Bakerstreet, and sorted the posted memes for April and for March according to a few categories, smut, shipping, or gen. Gen is defined as "not shipping or smut" and includes family stuff. There are some merged categories, like smut w/shipping, or shipping w/gen. Basically that means, "this is a shipping meme, but there's gen prompts here too" or vice versa, which is why they repeat in reverse. Other is a category for things that don't fit nicely into those categories, or are more meta, like tfln, the music prompt meme, roll call/meet and greet, etc. You should be able to see what I sorted where on the sheet.
Google Sheet of the data, including a pie chart is here.
If anyone has any feedback for methods or questions about why specific memes were posted where they were, hit me. But sometimes it was pretty subjective. Generally I tried to lean toward what I thought the poster's intent was.
Stuff I'm considering for the future is a participation ratio, that is, the ratio of top-levels to total comment count relative to these categories. Sure there's a lot of shipping memes compared to gen, but are they active enough posts to be considered "popular"? And using that ratio, does including prompts correlate to more participation?
i can honestly see how it would qualify as gen, though. yeah, the characters are talking about sex, but there's nothing there that encourages them to actually HAVE sex with each other or anything.
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wankgate2016-04-03 08:01 pm
MEME PET PEEVES
(Anonymous) 2016-04-04 02:06 am (UTC)(link)Re: MEME PET PEEVES
So I poured into Bakerstreet, and sorted the posted memes for April and for March according to a few categories, smut, shipping, or gen. Gen is defined as "not shipping or smut" and includes family stuff. There are some merged categories, like smut w/shipping, or shipping w/gen. Basically that means, "this is a shipping meme, but there's gen prompts here too" or vice versa, which is why they repeat in reverse. Other is a category for things that don't fit nicely into those categories, or are more meta, like tfln, the music prompt meme, roll call/meet and greet, etc. You should be able to see what I sorted where on the sheet.
Google Sheet of the data, including a pie chart is here.
If anyone has any feedback for methods or questions about why specific memes were posted where they were, hit me. But sometimes it was pretty subjective. Generally I tried to lean toward what I thought the poster's intent was.
Stuff I'm considering for the future is a participation ratio, that is, the ratio of top-levels to total comment count relative to these categories. Sure there's a lot of shipping memes compared to gen, but are they active enough posts to be considered "popular"? And using that ratio, does including prompts correlate to more participation?
I am probably thinking too hard.
Re: MEME PET PEEVES
(Anonymous) 2016-04-09 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)Re: MEME PET PEEVES
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