SurveyFail

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Surveyfail is the name used to refer to a late August 2009 incident in which two researchers -- Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam -- instigated a survey about women's desire and fandom, with an eye toward publishing a book called Rule 34: What Netporn Teaches Us About The Brain. In their communications they implied they were officially affiliated with Boston UniversityRule 34, or: tentacle porn, what tentacle porn?, shaggirl, July 19, 2009. (accessed September 7, 2009) and said they had previously consulted with a few fans over the summer, including shaggirl and mecurtin.mecurtin, Talking about who writes fanfic, 27 July 2009. (accessed 4 September 2009) 
The following comes from the survey's "About" page (no longer online):
The survey received widespread backlash and pushback from members of fandom for its ethically and methodologically questional approach, as well as offensive comments uttered by the researchers in discussions about the survey and their refusal to listen to the well-founded criticisms of fans. Boston University also publicly distanced itself from the researchers' actions following complaints from fans and emphasised that it did not endorse the survey.
==The Survey==
See the entire survey at Ogi Ogas Survey on The Cognitive Neuroscience of Fan Fiction.
The survey was 70 questions long and had a mix of multiple choice, select-all-that-apply, and open-answer questions. The survey asks questions like, "Do you ever watch gay male porn or read graphic erotica authored by gay males, like the stories on Nifty.org (i.e., not slash)?" and, "In real life, what is your attitude towards monogamy in a long-term relationship?" The latter is followed up with "Do you think there's a big difference between the kind of sexual relationships you like to read about and what you'd like to experience in real life?" 
Question 37 ("If you read slash, do you identify with the characters while you're reading?") implies that all slash pairings have a dominant and a submissive, referring probably not to BDSM roles but instead to penetration as the last option on the multiple choice question is, "I tend to identify with a specific character I like, in any position."
==Fandom Questions the Survey==
Word quickly spread within media fandom that the survey was ethically and methodologically questionable. eruthros wrote:
While some fans at that time noticed a similarity to the work of Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons,Comment thread discussing Salmon and Symons work on a post about the survey, accessed July 25, 2011 there was no indication within fandom that Ogas and Gaddam were already connected with both authors. Salmon wrote the foreword for the book they eventually produced and Symons wrote a blurb for the publisher. 
Fan tablesaw argued that the survey, the academics' handling of the situation, and their interaction with fans and critics has been "both stupid and offensive," adding:
Fans began pushing back, questioning the survey and demanding accountability from the researchers, as well as unleashing considerable snark. (In one representative post, Pandarus called the survey "ignorant, casually homophobic, patronising, misogynistic, profoundly privileged claptrap."Rule 42: What Netporn Tells Us About The Brainless, pandarus, September 2, 2009) Fans articulated concerns that the survey was unethicalSurvey: further fail (via eruthros), jonquil, August 31, 2009 and that the researchers don't listen well to critique.Some scientists sure have nerve, or, How Not To Study Fandom, slashpine, August 31, 2009.
Fans further lambasted the researchers for not realizing that fanfiction comes in all varieties of length, for changing the questions of the survey in response to participants' criticisms after they'd already begun collecting data, and ultimately for locking down their journals and removing the survey altogether. In a widely-linked post called "Ten Steps to a Perfect Fanstorm," Lauredhel wrote:
Here's how Jonquil outlined the way the situation unfolded: 
In a post which accuses Gaddam and Ogas of being phrenologists (in other words, drawing on pseudoscience to support unverifiable claims), neededalj unpacks reasons why the science in this project is implausible and unverifiable, concluding, "Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam are attemping to profit off of bad science by cloaking it in complicated terminology and cutting edge technology. We shouldn't let them."Why Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam Are Phrenologists, neededalj, September 2, 2009.
==One of Ogi Ogas' Responses==
One of Ogas' responses to a fan on his Livejournal, since deleted, posted on August 31, 2009:
==Offensive Language==
In a thread in shaggirl's journal, Ogas commented that:
He later expanded his transsexual comment to ask the question "How is straight female interest in slash fiction like straight male interest in transsexuals?"
After being told in comments that the term "transsexuals" was so broad as to be meaningless, the question was edited to replace it with "shemale models". screencaps of the 'shemales' post, accessed September 3, 2009 
Fandom reacted with predictable outrageresponse from rm to Ogas, rm, September 2, 2009 to Ogas' use of the terms "shemales" (and, elsewhere, "trannies") as well as to his various assertions (that slash is primarily written by straight women, that straight women's interest in slash can be reasonably compared to straight men's interest in porn featuring transfolk) whereupon Ogas locked/deleted most of his livejournal posts and took the survey down. 
Although the survey itself is no longer online in its original form, copies of the questions can be read at who_anon: part one and part two. Screencaps of most of Ogas' posts are available mediafire.com/fail_machine fail_machine, index of screencaps, accessed September 5, 2009 thanks to fail_machine, who also screencapped the survey after Ogas' and Gaddam's edits (but before the survey was taken down); those caps are available as pdf files.pdf screencaps of the edited survey, fail_machine, accessed September 5, 2009.
==Creative Fannish Response==
In addition to responding with meta and critique, fans also created cat macros, tentacle pornre: the recent SurveyFail...., alchemia, September 2, 2009, slash fiction"In Fandom, slashfic writers poll you", fridgepunk, September 2, 2009 and filkYour Arse Is Showing, tablesaw, August 31, 2009 SurveyFail Filk!, pine and quinfirefrorefiddle, September 5, 2009 in response to the imbroglio.
Some fans found the posting of sexually explicit macros and images deeply troubling.Why on Earth would I think somebody was mocking those "researchers"?, zvi, August 4, 2009 Others regarded this as parodyInversion and parody, darkrose, September 3, 2009 or "protest art"Protest art, Fandom, and NOT being homogeneous, ithiliana, September 3, 2009 and therefore legitimate. elf argues that intent matters:
Cesare argues that Ogi/Sai fan creations are a kind of "metatextual joke," adding:
==Non-Fandom Responses==
When fans contacted Boston University to complain, one fan reported the following:
The debacle attracted the attention of people outside the media fan community as well, including the Publishers' Weekly blog GenrevilleHow Not to Engage/Enrage Fandom in One Simple Lesson, September 3, 2009 and IRB historian Zachary SchragInternet Survey Sparks Outrage, September 4, 2009. 
Alison MacLeod, of blog The Human Element, writes:
N Pepperell quips that even assuming that the survey project isn't "some sort of elaborate research-themed performance art, or the result of a revenge-fuelled identity theft," Ogas and Gaddam are the academic-research equivalents of notoriously unsuccessful bank robber MacArthur Wheeler.WEARING THE JUICE: A CASE STUDY IN RESEARCH IMPLOSION, September 2, 2009.
==Afterword==
A year later, some fans reported that the book was still going to be published, now retitled A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals about Human Desire.wrabbit. Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam's new (old?) book, 28 November 2010lindenharp. Survey!Fail rides again, posted in ffr_discussion, 30 December 2010. However, it has been said that the new book does not use the results of the original survey. It was eventually published under the title, A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships.A Billion Wicked Thoughts, accessed July 7, 2020.
In February 2011, the Amazon page for the bookBillion Wicked Thoughts on Amazon.com, accessed February 5, 2011, due to be released in May, came to the attention of many people in fandom.Survey Fail Rides Again on i Wank, accessed February 5, 2011 User-generated tags on the Amazon page soon included terms like complete crap, psuedoscience (sic), mansplaining, bad science, phds written in crayon, and evo psych is make believe.
The official website for the book is billionwickedthoughts.com.
Ogi Ogas, PhD can be seen on YouTube in an official interview about the book here.
A person claiming to be an ex-colleague of Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam has published a short ebook entitled A Billion Wicked Problems (dead link) criticizing their flawed methodology and listing the troubles they faced at Boston University because of their research practices. Ogas and Gaddam's mentor, Donald Symons, has stated that A Billion Wicked Problems is "nonsensical neuroscience mumbo jumbo" authored by Ogas and Gaddam themselves, as a "'honeypot' to ensnare the hostile slash fans."Donald Symons' review of A Billion Wicked Thoughts, June 10 2011 (accessed June 17 2011) This claim appears to be true: the penultimate sentence of A Billion Wicked Problems contains the coded message "Ogi and Sai wrote this satire." And yet many of the fans hostile to the book and the failed survey that preceded it appear to be as much fans of science as they are fans of slash.A Billion Made-Up Conclusions by Doctor Science, posted May 2, 2011, accessed June 18, 2011
==Further Reading/Meta==
A comprehensive list of posts can be found at linkspam on Dreamwidth. The links are all collected in the surveyfail masterpost.
An alternative write up of the events can be found at Fan History: ; 
NOTE: Some of these links are to journals that were public at some point and now locked. Some of these links are to locked journals. Some of these links to to journals that are now completely offline. Since most of this discussion occurred on LiveJournal, every live link is in danger of being purged by LiveJournal itself.
July 19, 2009
* Rule 34, or: tentacle porn, what tentacle porn?: by shaggirl
July 22, 2009
* A response from our friendly scientists...: by shaggirl
July 27, 2009
* Talking about who writes fanfic: by mecurtin
August 21, 2009
* Fanfic archives: by mecurtin
August 29, 2009
* The Cognitive Neuroscience of Fan Fiction: by Ogi Ogas
* Fan Fiction Survey: Frequently Asked Questions: by Ogi Ogas 
August 30, 2009
* Out of the loop: by shaggirl
* Figuring out the sexy brains behind fanfic...: by cjandre
* Avoid this survey!: by kyuuketsukirui
* academic research on fandom: by rm
* Do you have an issue or comment about a survey question? Talk about it here!: by Ogi Ogas
* skeevy survey: by kindkit 
* Boosting the signal: Don't Take the Fanfiction Survey: by raine
* A survey and other babble: by damkianna
August 31, 2009
* Another "survey" of fans by outsiders who FAIL rather spectacularly.: by zellieh 
* Fandom Survey; a cautionary post: by midnightbex 
* When Fandom Explodes or Science for Beginners: by vanseedee 
* LOL NO: by logovo1 
* re. that survey that's going around: by such-heights 
* Signal Boost: Why NOT to take the "Neurobiological" Fandom Survey: by cesperanza 
* by the-shoshanna 
* Survey: further fail (via eruthros): by jonquil 
* Signal boost: by giandujakiss 
* That fanfic survey - Beyond Metafandom: by par-avion 
* still boggled: by ljgeoff 
* fanfic study: by ljgeoff 
* The question is, who would you call on your way over the cliff?: by jjtaylor 
* Don't take the fanfiction survey: by juniperphoenix 
* Ten Steps to a Perfect Fanstorm: by lauredhel 
* untitled: by wallflower in unfunnybusiness 
* RULE 34: Don't you fuck with fandom: by rivrea 
* Now is the time for all good pollock to come to the aid of the party!: by legionseagle 
* Research Fail Abounding: by oursin 
* Harry Winston, tell me all about me!: by jonquil 
* That's Entertainment!: by thenyxie 
* Warning: Cognitive Neuroscience of Fanfiction Survey not what you think!: by ithiliana 
* THAT FANFICTION SURVEY THING: by tencrush 
* Do you have an issue or comment about a survey question? Talk about it here!: by Ogi Ogas 
* Survey down while we digest all this great feedback!: by Ogi Ogas 
* please don't take the fanfiction survey: by eruthros 
* a couple of updates: by eruthros 
* Discipline and publish: by rivkat 
* don't take the fanfiction survey: by thingswithwings 
* Aftermath: by shaggirl 
* ew ew ew: by helens78 
* PSA: Scientists Behaving Badly: by seeking-avalon 
* Escaping LJ onto Blogs (ahahahaha as if there's a huge difference when blog owners also have LJ): by ithiliana 
* I want an icon: by ithiliana 
* Additional info on the survey you should not take: by elke-tanzer 
* "But girls are different! That's why they're born with long hair and dresses on!": by electricwitch 
* Some scientists sure have nerve, or, How Not To Study Fandom: by slashpine 
* How many kinds of fail in this question? Or, Are You Smarter Than A Neuroscientist?: by slashpine 
* survey about fanfic AVOID AVOID: by cesare 
* signal boost: don't take the survey!: by sister-coyote 
* Fanfiction Survey = Failboat: by yohjideranged 
* lol guys: by keieeeye 
* *makes popcorn*: by innocentsmith 
* Your Arse Is Showing.: by tablesaw 
* NOT a spectator sport!: by glass-icarus 
* Boosting Signal (fandom related): by lassarina 
* Kink, Bikes & Science Fail: by woldy 
* about fanfic AVOID AVOID: by almostnever 
* In Which Knowledge is Dropped Like Bombs: by sparkymonster 
* Pass it on.: by lamardeuse 
* Hahaha. Not: by janedavitt 
* Stupid Survey is Stupid: by othercat 
* SurveyFail Masterpost: by elf in linkspam 
* untitled: by writestufflee 
* Boosting Signal [fandom related]: by lassarina 
* Problems With Yesterday's Survey-please read if you took it!: by rosykate 
* That fanfiction survey that's going around...: by karenhealey 
September 1, 2009
* A handy-dandy guide on how NOT to conduct research on fandom.: by sidewinder 
* The Fandom Survey Wankfest Extraordinaire: by eveofnigh 
* Who wants to play Evolutionary Neuro Cognitive Research FAIL?: by skud 
* For once, fandom doesn't make me facepalm: by lizbee 
* Wow. The stupid, it burns.: by scrollgirl 
* What Dr Gaddam thinks of research subjects: by scrollgirl 
* For the record...: by medie
* This one calls for Jessica...: by medie 
* about that 'neuroscience' survey: by 0mindthegap0 
* now that's market research you can take to the bank -- the *money* bank: by bossymarmalade 
* i'm literally angry with rage!: by bossymarmalade 
* BrainFail continues to spread like, well, the Brain that Ate New Jersey!: by ithiliana 
* $$$$$: by ithiliana 
* *prolonged scream*: by almostnever 
* The latest from Ogi Ogas: by nestra 
* signal-boosting the moron alert: by the-shoshanna 
* Cranky about Evolutionary Psychology -- a personal story: by imnotandrei 
* Rule 34: by lanning 
* sundries: WTC weather, the dying season, and fandom fuckups: by rm 
* what. the. fucking. fuck.: by keeva 
* Yes, I know I should have known better.: by ellen-fremedon 
* A note to researchers on fandom: by carmarthen 
* Because it's been a very good day: by copracat 
* Signal boost: rivkat weighs in on IRBs: by jonquil 
* Why, yes, I *did* sleep through Introductory Statistics: by jonquil 
* Really?: by fox1031 
* Stand back! I'm going to try ~*science*~: by fera-festiva 
* Más sobre la "encuesta" de ogi_ogas: by logovo1
* Hoist the colors: by starlady 
* Your daily dose of WTF: by mecurtin 
* A poll. For science.: by clarity-bligh 
* on social taboos and bad questions: by parthenia14 
* Bad science alert!!: by heleninwales 
* Aide-memoire: by jonquil 
* Well, that took about two seconds to crash and burn: by rexluscus 
* Real science is open to critique: by gryphonsegg 
* untitled: by thelemic 
* untitled: by la-vie-noire 
* That Fanfiction Survey: by xaritomene 
* Forskningsetik- you’re doing it wrong: by Linnéa 
September 2, 2009
* comment party: because fic is the way I like to talk about stuff: by ariastar 
* hahaha (x-posted from IJ): by phaetonschariot 
* Wearing the Juice: A Case Study in Research Implosion: by Pepperell 
* "Shemale" screencaps: by damned-colonial 
* whaaaaaat (more survey shenanigans): by such-heights 
* Sucks to be you, dude.: by apocalypsos 
* meta? no, I think this is rage: by ceitean 
* FICLETTINO: Ogi Ogas/Sai Gaddam, or: My Response to the Neuroscience Fail Survey: by lobelia321 
* Fandom to researchers: We are not your lab rats: by Yonmei 
* Dr Ogas - hardwired sexism isn't just for business!: by legionseagle 
* I need to walk away from this trainwreck or I'm never sleeping tonight: by sabrina-il 
* Bad research and fandom: Surveyfail: by deadlychameleon 
* How is straight female interest in slash fiction like straight male interest in "shemale" models? And why in the world does this matter?: by Ogi Ogas 
* Game On: by lanning 
* BrainFail Update: Signal Boost: by lanning 
* And we have a deletion!: by lanning 
* un nemico sincero, voglio voglio voglio: by electricwitch 
* Fanstorm: followup.: by lauredhel 
* Blame jonquil for sharing: by karnythia 
* now? it's on like donkey kong.: by delux-vivens 
* How disappointing...: by cjandre 
* He's embiggened that role with his cromulent performance.: by ciderpress 
* let's make litter of these literati: by bossymarmalade 
* untitled: by bossymarmalade 
* Signal boost: SurveyFail!: by blueraccoon 
* Get out of my fandom. Surveyfail09: by waldorph 
* Oh, no, Ogi, NO!: by ithiliana 
* Thanks to brilliant fan linkers: updates on PervySurveyFail!: by ithiliana 
* Boosting signal: the BU IRB speaks.: by jonquil 
* untitled: by nestra 
* official response from Boston University on Ogi Ogas and SurveyFail!: by the-shoshanna 
* Well. I tell you I am shocked.: by amireal 
* Next step for SurveyFail: Who has publishing connections?: by villeinage 
* just ask this scientician: by bossymarmalade 
* i miss ship wars like so much: by seperis 
* I have a question: by rm 
* untitled: by bossymarmalade 
* fts, this ain't science!: by sunhawk 
* Further information on Survey!Fail: by pandarus 
* Another Lessen in Science: by vanseedee 
* Passing on good news / bad news: by scrollgirl 
* you have not yet begun to see wrath: by rm 
* Boosting signal: the BU IRB speaks.: by jonquil 
* Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Dr. Ogi Ogas (screencaps): by jonquil 
* While I'm screencapping (Ogi Ogas part 2): by jonquil 
* BrainFail, let me count the ways: by slashpine 
* Re the SurveyFail & clearing one's survey answers: by slashpine 
* Another fandom survey, because I was curious, dammit!: by noracharles 
* Because I have the icon: by aquaeri 
* Oh, it gets even better: by stopthatgirl7 
* For SCIENCE!: by stopthatgirl7 
* re: the recent BrainFail.... I don't really know if this is funny or totally tasteless....: by alchemia 
* Neurochemistry compels me!: by fridgepunk 
* Fandom Backlash is Not Pretty [Survey!Fail Edition: by eumelia 
* Why Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam Are Phrenologists: by neededalj 
* (EVEN MORE) FLAMES. ON THE SIDE OF MY FACE.: by glass-icarus 
* the offensive survey OR why fangirls rock at distinguishing science from "science": by abka 
* Ogi ogi ogi...: by tencrush 
* How Not to Do Research: by drasecretcampus 
* your research is kind of the equivalent of being an ass: by jadey 
* Just passing information around (signal boost I think it is called?): by seftimiu 
* untitled: by vociferocity 
* General update: by shadowvalkyrie 
* SurveyFail! BU "researchers" pissing off everyone ever, getting reported to IRB.: by laura47 
* my fandom hits like a killer asteroid: by ljgeoff 
* Rule 42: What Netporn Tells Us About The Brainless: by pandarus 
* The fail, it is strong: by homasse 
* What.: by cho-malfoy 
* untitled: by lainy122 
* untitled: by sailorvfan10 
* Signal Boost: Surveyfail just keeps failing.: by mintwitch
* untitled: by pantryslut 
* wrt SurveyFail: by lotesseflower 
* In regards to the Survey of Fail...: by enchanted-jae 
* survey!fail catchup: by seperis 
* untitled: by delux-vivens 
* SurveyFAIL signalboost: A horrifying thought: by villeinage 
* BTW: apparently this is what is needed to drag me away from obsessive GRRM reading. ACA FAIL!: by ithiliana 
* Ogi Ogas writes science fiction, too!: by jonquil 
* MUST SHARE!: by mockingbirdq 
* Transphobia & Stupidity: by seeking-avalon 
* Supernatural in Five Seconds, plus Asshattery Linkspam: by andreth47 
* Pseudo-scientific justification of the status quo: by laughingrat 
* ogi ogas: ready to sleaze my way back to the top: by bossymarmalade 
September 3, 2009
* My new favorite phrase, "Wearing the juice".: by [[calligrafiti] 
* Protest art, Fandom, and NOT being homogeneous: by ithiliana 
* My Thoughts on Hentai: by elf 
* Deceptive studies and scientists talking back: by carmarthen 
* SurveyFail: by birggitt 
* SurveyFail: by rubymiene 
* Surveyfail: by naturelf 
* surveyfail: this is never going to end, is it?: by seperis 
* for the record: by kynn 
* People who shouldn't be doing research to begin with...: by timelady 
* Finding the fun in SurveyFail.: by alexandraerin 
* Untitled: by booster17 
* Your music is bad and you should feel bad!: by cidercupcakes 
* "It's all fun and games...: by eumelia 
* So as I was surfing along and reading Survey!Fail links: by giandujakiss 
* If it's September, it must be fanwank time: by inamac 
* SurveyFail or Don't Fuck with Fandom!!: by i-am-schizo 
* Get back here you soaped up wenches!: by ix-tab 
* more stuff, more things: by kalichan 
* SurveyFail: by kassrachel 
* SurveyFail 2009: by keori 
* Isn't that special: SurveyFail Update : by lanning 
* Untitled : by modillian 
* re: Surveyfail: by norah 
* Apology: by Ogi Ogas 
* From Sai Gaddam's university website: by onelittlesleep 
* Dear Ogi: by rm
* OH NO, STEPHEN MORROW, NO: by rosemaryedghill 
* "Improve" your work?: by talheres 
* Untitled: by tronella 
* wearing the juice!: by tsarina 
* Also, SurveyFail cracks me up: by viggorlijah 
* Another thought about SurveyFail.: by syndi-64 
* The curious case of the game show neuroscientists, or how NOT to research an online community: by Alison Macleod 
* Ogi apologizes by insulting fandom some MOAR. (rev.1): by slashpine 
* To Whom It May Concern: by fail-machine 
* Hrrrmmm...: by belleweather 
* We are Fandom, hear us roar: by shamusandstone 
* ATTN FANDOMERS.: by eska-rina 
* Your music is bad and you should feel bad!: by sohotrightnow 
* i think i need to really give my *headdesk* icon a rest: by sailorvfan10 
* How Not to Engage/Enrage Fandom in One Simple Lesson: by Josh Jasper 
* So. SurveyFail.: by passerine 
* Inversion and Parody: by darkrose 
* various lacks of shame: by ceasre 
* Ogi/Sai: by kanata 
September 4, 2009
* Why on Earth would I think somebody was mocking those "researchers"?: by zvi 
* Also regarding SurveyFail, and the responses thereto: by passerine 
* Internet Survey Sparks Outrage: by Institutional Review Blog 
* mmmm, tennicles.: by anatsuno 
* Ahahaha.: by kassrachel 
* we'll not risk another frontal assault; that rabbit's dynamite!: by minkhollow 
* Not how much we love it, but how much he hates it.: by druidspell 
* Love Letter: by jumpuphigh 
* I KNEW this wasn't going to end well (the same but different post with new info): by kahtyasofia 
* Surveyfail in a nutshell: by 0mindthegap0 
* Thought that are actually about yaoi (well, RPS at least): by fridgepunk 
* I love fandom so. I'd forgotten.: by runawaykael 
* Fandom as girl zone: by laughingrat 
September 5, 2009
* RULE 34: WHAT NETPORN TELLS US ABOUT THE BRAIN: by The Neurocritic 
* SurveyFail Fail: by ivorygates 
* Ugly is in the eye of the beholder: by alchemia 
* AWESOME SurveyFail filk keeps coming: by slashpine 
* On the Rules of Fandom, Deleting Posts, and Cowardice...: by greenlady2 
* Oh, fandom. You're just born with it.: by gabrielleabelle 
* On the supposed "protest art.": by ficangel 
* A Four Line Summary of Ogi and Sai's Plan of Action, and a Useful Comparison to Other Research: by neededalj 
* Quick hit: SurveyFail, protest art, and RPS: by Skud 
* SurveyFail filk! NEEDS MORE VERSES, PEOPLE *hint*: by slashpine 
September 6, 2009
* Sex, Lies and IRB Tape: Netporn to SurveyFail: by dlende 
* "How is straight female interest in slash fiction like straight male interest in "shemale" models? And why in the world does this matter?": at metafilter 
* SurveyFail and Fandom Mobbing...: by greenlady2
* Can the bounds of stupidity be measured?: by henriettaholden 
* A fandom shitstorm - redux: by filthgoblin
* Triggery =/= bad: by acrimonyastraea 
September 7, 2009
* SurveyFail redax: Downey adds to Lende: by gregdowney 
* Delete, delete, delete!: by sendaianonymous 
* And now I have a real apology to make...: by greenlady2 
* Bad survey, good survey: by elf 
* SurveyFail: by autumnlady 
September 9, 2009
* Nature/Nurture: Slash To The Rescue: by dlende
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