It is not uncommon for genres to have a mix of those who are fans of it and those who are not fans of it. The Omegaverse is not unique in this regard. However, what is unique seems to be just how vehemently opposed to the genre those who are not fans of it can get. The dislike seems to transcend the philosophy of “Don’t Like; Don’t Read,” and many of those who are not into the genre actively rail against it. The deeper I dug into why this might be, the more it became obvious that the Omegaverse is far more complicated than it initially appears, but it is that complicated nature that produces such vehement dislike as a byproduct.
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Potential Confounding Factors in the Analysis of Kudos/Hits on AO3
Created in conjunction with /u/What_The_Function.
Archive Of Our Own (AO3) is a website designed for archiving fanfiction and the occasional amateur original work. The site has several metrics that it tracks, which can be used to measure the success of a particular story. Among them are Hits (a measurement of how many separate times a web browser has visited the page for a story) and Kudos (a vote of approval for a particular story that can be left by both registered users and guests). The site tracks them separately, and most users just use one stat or the other (or a different independent stat) to measure how successful a story is. However, some users have suggested looking at the measurement of Kudos/Hits instead. In theory, this will show a measurement of how much the people who read the story like it and will remove the confounding factors of some stories getting lucky with drawing more readers in and some stories simply appealing to a broader crowd. However, it has also been suggested that this measurement may introduce its own confounding factors.
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