Counting fandom communities

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Everyone reading this is probably already aware of fandom_counts. (If not, go and join with your fandom journals! It's at over 30,000, now.)

In an attempt to also count fandom *communities*, a specific interest has been created - fandomcommscount.

If you manage any communities that were created for purposes related to fandom, then go ahead and add the interest to the community's interest list. Whether the community is still active or not!

Simply go to the Community Management page. Click the 'Info' link next to the community. Paste fandomcommscount into the 'Interests' field. Save the changes.

You can watch the community count here.

Please, spread the word :)

Comments

[linaelyn.livejournal.com]

This is probably paranoia, but I've seen enough underhanded dealing over the years to make me stop and say, "Hmmmmmm..."

I've seen concern on my friendslist that any joining of an immense community thing or mass interest-adding might result in flagging that journal or community as "fandom troublemakers" and give SixApart a very simple way of deleting everyone who cares about such issues. I really don't think 6A is that intelligent, nor that machiavellian. Every step of this fiasco has looked like inarticulate bumbling.

I joined fandom_counts anyway. My journal, my risk, my decision. But if I were a mod of a community, I'd hesitate before I risked other people's fic/art archive by jumping up and down and yelling, "Over here! We want trouble! We're not afraid of you, you big bad wolf!" Even if what's over there isn't a wolf, it's just a wiener dog with poor manners. It still can bite.