The MLP:FIM Shipping Opinions Survey is up! · 5:10am Jan 21st, 2013
(Take 2) (Many of you will see this more than once in various places. I apologize, I’m trying to get it out there to as much of the shipping community as possible, and there’s bound to be some overlap.)
MLP:FIM Shipping Opinions Survey is up! If you like shipping, even casually, I’d like it if you’d leave your opinions. You can find the survey at http://mlpshipping.blogspot.com/, and it will be available until February 10th, at 11:59 PM EST.
But wait! After you take the survey, you can do me a favor: Plaster links all over the internet. Anywhere there are pony fans who might be shippers. And tell them to do the same. I’ll be posting it to the general shipping groups here (Organized Shipping and Shipping), some pony communities on LiveJournal and Dreamwidth, and sending the info to EqD.
Please note that I’m not posting this to any specific shipping groups, including ones I’m a member of, to avoid official bias. If you’re a member of other shipping groups (Groups for individual ships, The Fillyfoolers, M/M Shipping, Sensual stories, etc.), feel free to post this there. Also, If you have followers who will see your blog here, are active on message boards on other sites, have a tumblr, or interact with other pony fans anywhere, please let them know about this!
If/when you do link to it, please make sure to mention that this is for people who like shipping, and that the survey will be running until February 10th, 11:59 EST.
Other stuff:
This is not a popularity contest for ships or authors. Do not retake the survey to try to make your favorites look good, or worry about how they will do. It’s just information. If your favorites do badly, that’s the time to start putting effort into making them look good. And we should have more info on how to do that, thanks to the survey!
The only results I’ll talk about before the survey closes are number of responses. No hints on how ships or authors are doing. This isn’t that sort of poll.
I’ll get information out ASAP after the poll. If anyone wants to volunteer to help me with graph making or data entry/formatting, let me know! If any of you happen to want to help and also have access to SPSS (and know how to use it) let me know that too! This isn’t going to be too complicated, but there are a few things I think would be interesting to control for when I look at results.
Thanks, and have fun!
I'm about halfway through. not a bad survey.
Completed! :D
Dakota.
Damn, that's long
I'm gonna do this tomorrow 
I like it.
Done! Gotta say I agree, though, that was a long survey! Can't wait to see the results though!
Will you be making a graph(s) of the data? I love graphs.
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I will be making all sorts of graphs! More graphs than you will know what to do with.
Holy crap that was thorough XD.
That is some nifty formatting you used. Done and done.
Done and done. I love being interrogated!
*phew!*
Alright! Got it done! I gotta hand it to you bookplayer. That was a very nice and thorough survey. Good job. I can't wait to see the results!
Finished, and first of all:
What was your favorite shipping Fan fiction? How could you ask that?! Do you know how long I sat there, trying to sort through all the awesome romance that I've read? Do you?!
...Not really all that long, actually, but still.
Anyway, that was really quite cool. It looked amazingly nice, organized and concise. I will be looking forward to those graphs of yours
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YAY!
I voted in the poll. Surprising, how many ships I actively do not like, and those that I mildly tolerate these days.
Finished! Quite a few ships I passively like, and some I actively do not. Twas a very encompassing survey.
After taking that, I realize I passivly hate every fluttershy ship, every Spike and young character ship, and every Mac ship with another stallion. Oh, and 90% of background pony ships. I never realized I was that picky.