The Slashers Survey is a 76-question survey trying to collect information about slashers, and giving slashers an excuse to talk about themselves, why they read/write, and all things slash.

Part of the idea behind the survey is to collect some hard data on the slash "community". Average age, average "fannish" age, whether they also write gen and/or het, etc. Often, in discussions, a subject comes up that really requires some actual statistics on slash fandom to be discussed in anything but a hypothetical sense. Hopefully, this survey will provide at least somewhat accurate data on slash fandom.

The collected date will of course be collated into stats, graphs, and spreadsheets, and all individual entries will be published on the site.

The Slashers Survey

Feel free to forward this e-mail to lists or individuals you think would be interested, or post it in your LJ, but please make sure to check with listmods first to make sure it's okay to post.

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From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com

Re: A quick correction to my answers


Will do, pet. :)

(Small and fairly random gripe just because it's bugging me right now and you're the first willing ear I come across: am I missing something? Why do so many (for relatively small values of "so many") people object to having their name and e-mail on the published survey? People, what do you put on your published/archived stories, then? Your website? At least femgeeks is blocked for spambots as much as I can. Muh?)

From: [identity profile] sivan.livejournal.com

Re: A quick correction to my answers


Eh, I'm kinda not quite comfortable with that either, although I don't think I could give you a good reason. Maybe it's because some of that information is fairly private, after all, more than you'd want to share with the fandom at large? Or because e-mail addresses get used outside of fannish circles, too, and 'RL people' could search for it and see things they're not supposed to ... but then, there's the "well, what then do you put on your stories?" argument. Hm. No answer, really ...

What about giving people the option of having their survey published anonymously?

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com

Re: A quick correction to my answers


I considered it, but I know I'd screw up and publish contact details of someone who didn't want it, and this is simpler for me.

Oh, and also, all of femgeeks is blocked from search robots (at least my sites are), so nothing ought to be showing up in search sites.

From: [identity profile] sivan.livejournal.com

Re: A quick correction to my answers


Well, given the number of submissions you already got (I just saw), that doesn't seem entirely unlikely. ^^; Oh well, it'll be interesting to see what everyone else has said, I just hope I didn't say anything unforgivably stupid in mine.

And yeah, true, at least not in the ones commonly used. *nodnod*

From: (Anonymous)

Re: A quick correction to my answers


I think some people don't want to admit to who they are, for fear of other slashers' opinions about different fandoms, or someone finding out your sexuality, etc.

From: [identity profile] bubosquared.livejournal.com

Re: A quick correction to my answers


The fandoms thing I sorta get, but I'd think that the slash world is the one place where sexuality is a non-issue. Then again, considering the fact that there are girls/women pretending to be men in the slash world, I shouldn't be surprised.
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