At 11:38 AM 23/08/97 -0500, ROBERT MORRISON wrote:

I'm going to, for the purpose of proving that it just doesn't work, 
write an original fiction, with anime-style themes.

My hypothesis is:

-More than 70 percent of the FFML will see the "Original" tag and 
delete it without a glance.

-Of the remaining 30 percent, half of those will lose interest one 
paragraph into the story.

-Of the remaining half of those, only 25 percent will offer any type 
of C&C at all. 

Now, as of this post, I haven't conceived of the theme of this story 
yet, or how long it will be. 

To make this a fair test, I'm not going to deliberately make the 
story a piece of shit. I'm going to put the same effort into it I put 
into all my other stories. 

Ahem. Yes, well... Remind me never to trust any scientific paper you
write then, if this is your idea of a fair test. It's just a tad bit
unscientific...

And, BTW, there are over 600 people subbed to this list. By your rather
untrustworthy calculations, at least 22 or so people will C&C it. 
Which, truthfully, ain't bad. Pretty damn decent number of people actually. 
Personally, I can't believe you'd waste your time trying to actually say 
that this would prove anything. Because it won't.

Let us, for argument's sake, someone writes a Ranma story. It's an 
average sort of story, no great plot, no massive changes, neither well 
or badly written, and no mention of things to gain people's attention
(such as lemmings). They send it to the FFML. Shock, horror, they 
receive 2 responses. Well, I guess Ranma mustn't be a very popular 
series then. Oh well...

See just how unscientific and unprovable that theory of yours is, now?

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