Thanks to the hard work of Argenti Aertheri and the suggestions of various other Boobzers, the Man Boobz survey is now up and ready to be taken. It will give me — and all of you — a better picture of just what sort of people read Man Boobz on a regular basis. It’s completely anonymous. Go take it! It will only take a few minutes.
I will probably leave it up for a couple of days, and will report the results here as soon as the numbers are crunched.
I think pretty much any other question you might have about it will probably be answered on the survey itself, so hop to it!
Thanks Argenti!
RE: CassandraSays
The way his mind works, could you really blame him?
“In my experience, work is generally trading your mental health for food, housing, and money–and you can usually only obtain two of three.”
And my psych thinks I’m giving up by seeking disability. No, you stupid idiot, I’m picking my sanity for once in my fucking life. Being broke works, I’m cool with having next to nothing left after rent, hell, I spent 7 years loving Pittsburgh while buying fish food before human food!
David — so far 77% are coming from here and 15% from kwiksurveys itself, I’m guessing those are where people copy and pasted the link instead of clicking it. The rest look like RSS feed readers. And I’m really not sure how’d I’d even tell if I have trolls, other than if I start getting reddit or AVfM refers or similar. We are very white, but it looks legit — that is, most of the replies are from largely white countries and the numbers seem to match between the questions (perhaps more importantly, there’s a notable difference between white — European and white — all others, which I wouldn’t expect it they were padding the numbers).
I mean, unless we have another person in Israel, Eurosabra’s dropped by, but he’s not what you meant I don’t think. A handful of political views I’d not expect (e.g. A couple totalitarian // neo-nazi // similar) — certainly not enough to really skew the data though.
One thing I am going to have to do is work out what the fuck ethnic averages I should be expecting based on the countries replying, since we don’t have that reddit baseline to compare it to. Mm weighted averages!
@David
I was in SL in September, so I reckon I probably only accounted for maybe 100-120 hits. I think this means you’ve made it to the “Livin Large” stage of blogging! Take a bow.
@Cassandra
Judging by his comments, I think his exploration finally led him to nature, and the cultural shock has left him catatonic
Put another, simpler way, 77% (760~) of the replies came straight from here. Another 15% (150~) seem to have copy and pasted the link, so almost certainly came from here.
If I get refers on reddit or MRM sites, I’ll close it, but other than that I don’t see how I could detect trolls. Looks like there are just A Lot of lurkers, like 2/3rds of the replies checked off that they’re lurkers.
We have cupcakes! Come say hi!
RE: Argenti
And my psych thinks I’m giving up by seeking disability.
You too? I’ve had some folks give me crap about seeking disability. But it’s been a year, still crazy, and I’m hitting the road in part because… well, I’m gonna be homeless either way, I might as well make an adventure out of it. But taking care of myself has been a huge relief, even with the added stress of basic necessities. At least I don’t have to worry about juggling all my negative coping mechanisms to keep things going.
Like, seriously! I’m typing with one hand and a finger cuz ice pops are yummy. Otherwise mostly sane, usually, sleeping, well, that’s probably never going to happen. But not currently being suicidal apparently means I can’t know that working always makes me suicidal. ARGH!
Oh and add Slovenia to the list.
RE: Argenti
Yeah, and like, I’ve been able to work before, I’d like to be able to do it again… but having to choose between my sanity and my basic necessities is an AWFUL choice to have to make, and is only going to lead to me drunkenly reeling back and forth from one to the other.
So right now, I’m trying to find ways I can work, earn a little scratch, and NOT go bugfuck. (I really don’t think it’s a coincidence I wrote stuff like ‘Struck’ and ‘Six Weeks to Recovery’ when I was getting sicker and sicker.) It’s why I’ve thrown writeathons, and am printing up stories to sell, and Sneak’s pet-sitting and stuff. Every little dollar counts, and doing it in ways that are healthy and strengthening for me (even if I have to rest way more than I’d like) is a good thing to learn.
@Argenti, just wanted to say thanks for putting that survey together. I thought you did a great job.
“…drunkenly reeling back and forth from one to the other.”
Probably literally in my case >.<
We broke 1,000 btw!
Sorry to pop in and derail but this was fun. Fun was much needed. And my intricate power-point presentation of the type of cat I embody and why? Well it is not to be sniffed at. Unless you are also a Chartreux. Then have at it.
Argenti:
Take the survey!
~Argenti
Derail away! Cats are always on topic!
David — you can safely tell the MRM that you are only 2% of your commenters and somehow have more than 50 IPs!
Whoops, closer to ten if we include cats and ferrets in David suits. Which brings you to at least 100 IPs.
well hot shit, dave, I filled out your survey and had a great time doing it. can’t wait to see our demographic breakdown.
RE: Argenti
Pfah. Due to meds, I’m forbade drinking. I’m not really bothered by this most of the time, but Mac used to bartend. He misses his alcohol.
Some of the atheists in the Oak Ridge Unitarian Universalist congregation were demanding that the next pastor be an atheist, recently.
I had to pause to collect my brains, because the thought that there were atheists who went to church stopped me cold.
And congrats to Wordsp1nner!
Eh, I’m forbidden from getting drunk, or drinking and expecting to do anything besides pass out. But since that’s the point…
Perks of having an on demand pharmacy student, ze’s willing to answer my student questions without the social judgement (of course “it won’t kill you, but really Argenti? Maybe cut back?” Isn’t exactly judgement free…)
Favorite though was “Advil bottle says [dose] and I know you can get a script for more, how much more?” “You can double it, just don’t do it for more than a few days if you like your stomach” excellent
RE: Argenti
(of course “it won’t kill you, but really Argenti? Maybe cut back?” Isn’t exactly judgement free…)
Shouldn’t speak on that. I have a friend who’s got a drinking problem, and we had a pretty big fight when I refused to support what he was doing.
I AM A PIRATE ROBOT DINOSAUR! RAAAAWR!
Jesus fuck, Argenti, that’s awful. Have ALL THE HUGS!
Eh, I more have my weeks, like, a few a year. So yeah. And ze and *cough*pecunium*cough* are polite about it. More in the vein of concern than anything that’.l turn into a fight (pretty sure neither is thrilled that I started smoking again though, but pecunium hasn’t said anything on that one)
MrFancyPants — lol, but are you David?!
Falconer — yeah, and I didn’t like her in the first place (the feeling was mutual), so that just cemented my opinion that she’s a horrible person.