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Allekha ([personal profile] allekha) wrote in [community profile] fictional_fans 2019-05-04 06:43 pm (UTC)

There were a few, but the main one was the 'tell us about your ships!' one. I was one of the people who put down 'way too many', and when I looked at the data, I also saw a lot of people putting down 'too many' and then listing a couple of most recent or most beloved ships, or putting down things like X/everyone, X/despair, or general ship dynamics that they're into. I just don't think it was a good question.

The race question - I'm American myself, so I get the temptation to just use the standard American version of the question, but as you can see from the answers, it doesn't work well for an international audience, and some people were either confused or upset by it. There has to be a better way to do it. Or just leave it out. I'm not sure it contributed much and the hosts don't talk about the context it supposedly provides.

I also thought that the follow-up questions about how other fans have affected what people ship or how they feel about a ship were kind of vague. I would have at least separated it into positive/negative experiences based on the previous questions, and added an inverse for the 'have you ever started shipping something because of other fans' question.

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