1) What fandom was it? Jane Austen 2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc) Forum, and mailing list 3) When was this? Yesterday? Something like that. 4) Are you still active in that fandom? Yes. 5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site? Because it's not at a journaling site. (Apart from that, I tend to prefer community participation in places less splintered than journaling sites, but it's not like when the fandom is here I have much choice. I just use what the particular fandom uses.) 6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places? Eh, no idea. I post fic currently only at the AO3. I post blog type thing to my dw and lj. I discuss stuff where discussion arises. Meta tends to be in dw/lj. Fic discussion is at both places. I really only write in the JA fandom, and that takes a big chunk of my interaction, I guess, but I read in many other fandoms and discuss fannish stuff in many fandoms, aside for having an interest in meta. 7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation? It's more isolated in journaling sites, it seems to me--and there's more connection with you as a person not a fan, as your lj/dw is directly connected with whatever you say. 8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place? There are differences, but I've participated in those types of places in other fandoms (particularly, HP), and the differences were others, so I think that the only thing the types of places determine is that different mediums crosspolinate very little. 9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?) From indifference to distaste. Some interest, it has been my impression that mainly from people who're already multifannish. (But JA fandom is a very heterocentric fandom--HP had forums where slash was the genre and forums where it was not--for different reasons. I actually have a theory of why, but I think it exceeds this poll.) 10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site? Er, about the same? Both have the thing about not knowing anyone and thinking everyone knows each other already, and I have no frieeends, who would care about what I think stuff. It was easier for me lj/dw, but that's because when I got into it I already had friends from forums and archives. 11) Which medium do you prefer? Mhh. Depending for what. For blogging? A journaling site (dw). For posting stories? Archives (A03). For community interaction? Some sort of forum, though I haven't found software that really works for me yet.
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2) What was the medium? (e.g. was it a forum, a mailing list, etc) Forum, and mailing list
3) When was this? Yesterday? Something like that.
4) Are you still active in that fandom? Yes.
5) Why did you participate there, and not at a journaling site? Because it's not at a journaling site. (Apart from that, I tend to prefer community participation in places less splintered than journaling sites, but it's not like when the fandom is here I have much choice. I just use what the particular fandom uses.)
6) Are you more active in fandom on journaling sites or at other places? Eh, no idea. I post fic currently only at the AO3. I post blog type thing to my dw and lj. I discuss stuff where discussion arises. Meta tends to be in dw/lj. Fic discussion is at both places. I really only write in the JA fandom, and that takes a big chunk of my interaction, I guess, but I read in many other fandoms and discuss fannish stuff in many fandoms, aside for having an interest in meta.
7) How did the different mode of interaction affect your fandom participation? It's more isolated in journaling sites, it seems to me--and there's more connection with you as a person not a fan, as your lj/dw is directly connected with whatever you say.
8) Does there seem to you to be a difference in fen between the other medium and journaling sites? What are the differences? Why do you think those differences exist? Is it the nature of that fandom, or do you think it has anything to do with where that fandom is taking place? There are differences, but I've participated in those types of places in other fandoms (particularly, HP), and the differences were others, so I think that the only thing the types of places determine is that different mediums crosspolinate very little.
9) What were the fen in the other medium's thoughts on yaoi? (No, seriously. What was the general sentiment towards slash?) From indifference to distaste. Some interest, it has been my impression that mainly from people who're already multifannish. (But JA fandom is a very heterocentric fandom--HP had forums where slash was the genre and forums where it was not--for different reasons. I actually have a theory of why, but I think it exceeds this poll.)
10) Was it easier or harder to get into a fandom through a medium other than a journaling site? Er, about the same? Both have the thing about not knowing anyone and thinking everyone knows each other already, and I have no frieeends, who would care about what I think stuff. It was easier for me lj/dw, but that's because when I got into it I already had friends from forums and archives.
11) Which medium do you prefer? Mhh. Depending for what. For blogging? A journaling site (dw). For posting stories? Archives (A03). For community interaction? Some sort of forum, though I haven't found software that really works for me yet.