I believe Buckball Abstract has the record among all my stories for the highest ratio of views-in-the-first-24-hours to time-taken-to-write. This was just a random idea I had after watching Buckball Season. When I started writing I thought it would make a new chapter in Codex Equestria, but it drifted just

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So, I can't help but notice that A Pony in The Wasteland has gained, as of this month, 40.5K views...

My reaction: O-kaaay. People still read that crap?

I don't know what's more amazing - that people still read that story, or that a story as bad as APITW could gain that much attention. Oh, well, if it happens, it happens, and I'm unsure of how to react to this development.

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Apparently a very interesting pony. (source)

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A previous blog tracks the non-Mature-tagged stories published in 2023 and 2022.

Statistics follow for the number of Mature-tagged stories published per year (as of 2024-01-07):

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I've finally updated all my Fimfiction spreadsheets!
If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out this video.

Here's the updated basic Fimfiction statistics spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wsj45jwHofcWpow4hXgJa3-BSOQcD1FnKSEcWREKgXA/edit#gid=0

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Every few months, I take a statistical snapshot of my stories in an effort to track, over time, what factors help drive traffic to them (both in the moment and in the long tail). I noticed something interesting while compiling this round's stats.

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OK, leaving aside what did or didn't happen at a particular event, the level of concern over spiked drinks is rapidly approaching a moral panic.

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My stylometric analysis gave us a sharp division between stories written by professional authors and stories from fimfiction. A very big part of that was using Equestrian vocabulary.

stylo produces a file, 'wordlist.txt', that lists all the words to be used for the analysis. You can take that file, add or remove words, and then check the box Features -> Existing wordlist to use that file instead of generating a new one.

I removed Equestrian vocabulary from wordslist:

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In my previous post, I used data from a 2015 Harris survey to examine how reader demographics vary across different genres of books. From this data, I was able to group the genres into three rough clusters: Cluster 1 seems to consist of pleasure reading read predominantly by younger readers, cluster 2 consists of educational

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From the article in The Economist:

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Good to see in Common Ground that the analysis of Buckball statistics I imagined in Buckball Abstract is now canon.

I think it must be time to investigate this branch of applied mathematics further.

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List is at 9950 stories on it. Wonder what story 10,000 is going to be. That's a lot of ponyfic people have commented about. I'll probably hit it working on the backlog of reviews, so we'll never know what the *true* 10k milestone is/was I guess.

At various points during 2023, I calculated total non-mature stories published for each individual year.

Below is the data to revisit a year from now to ascertain how many stories have been de-listed.

Total Non-Mature Stories at some point during 2023, likely between March and September for most below-totals. The total for 2022 is from July 15th so it is possible that all other sums (except for 2023, which is from near year-end) are also from that date.

2023 - 4503

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I'm not usually one to contemplate fandom eschatology, but over the last few fimfic archive updates I've been noticing that the average words added each day to FiMfiction has been slowly decreasing. I thought I was witnessing the fandom lose steam as the number of words of fanfic it produced slows down.

But then this last fimfic archive update hit and I couldn't have been more wrong.

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In an episode which saw the return of Zecora, as well as Davenport, Mr Breezy and others, the character I was waiting to show up in It Isn't the Mane Thing About You was Zephyr Breeze. Where is a Mane Therapy graduate when you need him?

Instead let’s talk about the physics of ponytails.

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DAvWC (Daily Average Word Count): 4,486
TWC (Total Word Count): 417,262 (421,860 if you count my rejected story)
AvSWC (Average Story Word Count): 6,419/ (6,391 if you count the rejected story)
Total Stories: 65/ (66 if you count the rejected story)
3 Fan Requests so far (currently as of 2/21/2017)
Followers: 85

And For Comparison against my Two and One Month (respectively)

DAvWC: +723, +1,545
TWC: +183,494, +325,276
AvSWC: -3,189.9375, -6,471.25892857143

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The Structure of Derpibooru?

After attending Bad Horse's excellent talk on The Structure of Fimfiction at Trot Con last Friday evening, one of the questions was "why not do the same analysis but for Derpibooru?"

Let's start with

Literature Review

Or, put another way, a comparison of the relevant site features between Fimfiction & Derpi and would affect the social structure of the two sites.

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Featured Song: Pokemon Theme [Lara Cover]
by Lara6683

Rainbow Streak (RD) has Leveled Up to Lv 35!
Tier 4 Class: Swordsmare
~ HP Increased: 3500 ⇒ 3575 (+10 from END)
~ Mana Increased: 950 ⇒ 975 (+10 from SPR)
>> 10 Attribute Points are gained; 3 Skill Points are gained <<
Attribute Points Allocation:
>> Auto Distribution Selected <<
~ STR Increased: 124 ⇒ 127
~ DEX Increased: 86 ⇒ 88

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The following is the statistical information for Fight Club

Length: 97,199 words.

Characters: 544,827.

Time to write: 329 days (Total). 210 hours (Writing time).

Program used: Open Office 4.0.1, “acquired” copy of Microsoft Word, Google Docs

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Hey everybrony! I'm back again!

Sorry for not having as much time this week for all of you. I have two huge tests this week in Statistics so I've been really busy pouring all my free time into those. I didn't even have the time to really go over the chapters this week, I was so busy memorizing formulas and definitions and understanding how I can use a T-Test to reject the null by studying a table and determining the significance of a score.

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