stand up and be counted

[tielan]

Snurched directly from marag:

If you consider yourself a member of fandom: if you discuss comics, books, movies, or television on LJ; if you read or write fic; if you use LJ to connect with other fans, join fandom_counts.

As seimaisin points out, you need to join with all of your accounts, including fic journals, role-playing journals, etc., in order to provide the most accurate possible account.

When fandom_counts maxes out, they have backup comms available, so please do join.

LJ says they have 13 million accounts, but I'll bet ours are the most active and some of the most likely to be paid or permanent!

Fandom does count, darn it.

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And since I know most of my f-list isn't super-fannish, think of it as a census exercise.

Comments

[tielan]

16:12 GMT equals 01:12 AusEST DS, so that would make it nearly 9 hours ago.

And re: the metric, the cynic in me is pointing out that it's possible to create 'fake' journals to join the comm, and that a metric that takes the member list of a comm and lists how long the journal has been in existence would debunk this.

It's just me being numbers-and-proof-oriented. No real value to it. :)

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

I had a similar thought when I joined. How right is it to join with every one of my LJs? I joined with one, because there is only one me, although I have three journals. The encouragement to join with multiple LJs seems kind of like ballot-stuffing. OTOH, two of my journals are very active in fandoms...

[tielan]

I think the argument goes that "13 million usernames on LJ" doesn't equal 13 million users.

And a lot of the people with multiple accounts - multiple paid accounts - are fannish. While someone who uses it in a network manner a la MySpace (ie. an adolescent blogger) is only going to have the free version and won't pony up for the paid and extra features.

It's showing how many journals actually belong to fans, not just showing how many users of LJ there are.