Someone wrote in [community profile] jsmn_kinkmeme 2015-08-04 03:40 pm (UTC)

Re: Non-Con Strange: what's going on here?

I like how you think, and where this is heading. ^_^

my only reservation is that while any such analysis would necessarily have to be multi-fandom in order to collect enough data points to be truly robust, but I'm not sure if it'd be possible to have people from outside a fandom decide on the characteristics/qualities of characters as they wouldn't have the necessary experience with the characters in order to make such decisions.

Perhaps a compromise measure would be to have all people who were submitting decisions on certain characters to give a rating, maybe out of ten, of how much they liked that character in general, and to get a roughly even mix of people who do and don't like the character deciding their qualities. This wouldn't be a perfect solution, of course (many people can like a character despite being all too aware of their flaws, and it is also possible to dislike a character for the "wrong" reasons) but it would help increase the level of objectivity, at least in theory.

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