Re: wank containment area

(Anonymous) 2018-08-10 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, they'll defend that by saying that AO3's API is friendlier to that, that FFN and Wattpad are more difficult to scrape usable data from, and many older archives aren't accessible or don't exist anymore.

That doesn't mean the data from AO3 is representative, of course. It still has all the aforementioned flaws. They tend to just tack a disclaimer to that effect on it, and carry on anyway.

Re: wank containment area

(Anonymous) 2018-08-10 05:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, lovely. Saying your data is flawed does not mean you can then just go ahead and use the data like "whatever," acafen!

Re: wank containment area

(Anonymous) 2018-08-10 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I like the idea of toastystats, and at least she gives lots of disclaimers, but her stats are definitely skewed.

Re: wank containment area

(Anonymous) 2018-08-11 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I actually have no beef as long as people who lay out all the ways their data is not representative. Even confined to AO3, I find that stuff really interesting!