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By popular demand, here are the 2008 awards, by the numbers. Thanks to
Tanaqui for putting these together so quickly.

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Total Stories: 660
Total Story Reviews: 5397

Total Story Review Points: 24787
Total Story Review Characters: 2,536,145

Average Story Review Score: 4.59
Average Story Review Characters: 470

Average Total Story Score: 37.56 points
Average Total Story Characters: 3843

Longest Story Review: 5451 characters (42 reviews greater than 2000
characters)

Max Total Story Points For Any One Story: 118
Max Total Story Characters For Any One Story: 20576
Max Total Story Reviews For Any One Story: 20

Persons who left Story Reviews: 125
Total Authors: 200 (including groups as one author)
Total Nominators: 96
Total Active Participants (Authors + Nominators + Reviewers): 234

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For more number-crunching delight, compare to the 2007 award stats,
available at

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/8605

Marta
(MEFA Admin.)

Wow! That was fast! Huge thanks to Tanaqui. I am really curious about these.

By popular demand, here are the 2008 awards, by the numbers. Thanks to
Tanaqui for putting these together so quickly.




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that means that we averaged 44 reviews each, knowing that RL treats
each of us differently, what about a challenge to those of you hoe
claimed junkie rewards this year, how about a minimum of thirty next
year (that's leass than two a week for the entire six month run of
the contest and you're supposed to sign up before voting starts)?

it also shows that if each nominator had brought one new person to
the show we sould have had --- 192 voters actively voting. almost
half again the total we had.

do you realize that there were less than twenty full votes for the
winningest story? if each reviewer had left even the minimum number
of words per story, should have at least seven more points.

wow, and i was so pumped up about the library aspects of the list.
made a wonderful way to learn and find new authors and archives.
can't say enough good things about my experience here. am only sorry
that so many people who knew about the mefa's and participated on one
level couldn't find it in their schedule to at least view and comment
on their fellow writers attempts. i plan on leaving feed back all
over the web because i now understand how it works. n.

> that means that we averaged 44 reviews each, knowing that RL treats
> each of us differently, what about a challenge to those of you hoe
> claimed junkie rewards this year, how about a minimum of thirty next
> year (that's leass than two a week for the entire six month run of
> the contest and you're supposed to sign up before voting starts)?

Since there's some interest, I've dug out some stats about this year's
MEFA junkies.

This year, 34 people achieved their junkie target, and 20 of those set
(and achieved!) a target of 30 or more reviews.

There were a further 19 people who set themselves a junkie target but
didn't manage to achieve it (and I was very nearly part of that group
myself, so I know how easy it is for that pesky thing called real life
to get get in the way). And of those 19, 3 of them reviewed more than 30
stories (one of them reviewed more than 140 stories, but had set an
extremely high target), while a further 3 reviewed more than 25 stories
each.

I think our MEFA junkies have done an incredible job of challenging and
stretching themselves this year. Bravo!

You can find the full list of this year's MEFA Junkies and the targets
they achieved at
http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/index.php?page=FAQjunkie#jun_7

Tanaqui
MEFA Tech Support

Finding time to review isn't the problem, it's keeping "real life" from
snatching them away at the last second with emergencies, bosses in a panic,
kids getting into chaos and the need for sleep... I didn't bother setting a
goal this year, but I did get at least some reviews squeezed in to my
overscheduled existence.
Rhyselle

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 4:35 PM, nancylea57 <nancylea57@yahoo.com> wrote:

> that means that we averaged 44 reviews each, knowing that RL treats
> each of us differently, what about a challenge to those of you hoe
> claimed junkie rewards this year, how about a minimum of thirty next
> year (that's leass than two a week for the entire six month run of
> the contest and you're supposed to sign up before voting starts)?
>
> it also shows that if each nominator had brought one new person to
> the show we sould have had --- 192 voters actively voting. almost
> half again the total we had.
>
> do you realize that there were less than twenty full votes for the
> winningest story? if each reviewer had left even the minimum number
> of words per story, should have at least seven more points.
>
> wow, and i was so pumped up about the library aspects of the list.
> made a wonderful way to learn and find new authors and archives.
> can't say enough good things about my experience here. am only sorry
> that so many people who knew about the mefa's and participated on one
> level couldn't find it in their schedule to at least view and comment
> on their fellow writers attempts. i plan on leaving feed back all
> over the web because i now understand how it works. n.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Visit our website: http://www.mefawards.net/MEFA2008/Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>


--
Vorondavë ar linalmië,
Rhyselle

Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative
mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and
likeness of a Maker. -- J.R.R. Tolkien, On Fairy-Stories, 1939


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Tanaqui wrote:

>
>
> > that means that we averaged 44 reviews each, knowing that RL treats
> > each of us differently, what about a challenge to those of you hoe
> > claimed junkie rewards this year, how about a minimum of thirty next
> > year (that's leass than two a week for the entire six month run of
> > the contest and you're supposed to sign up before voting starts)?
>

Just poking in before running out the door...

Numbers are fun, to be sure, and I'm glad you enjoyed poking through
them. But I know that sometimes they don't tell the whole story.

Of course I would love to have even more participation than we have.
That means more reviews to enjoy for everyone around, and the more
people participating the more peoples' opinions the results represent.
That's a great thing.

That said.... :-)

I think that MEFA participation tends to follow a cycle for many people
- a cycle that takes several years. The first year maybe you're
nominated or see an announcement, poke around a bit but don't write many
reviews for whatever reason. By the next year you have more confidence,
get much more involved but are still struggling to understand some
aspects of the awards. Or you underestimate how much time you need to
set aside. By the third year you have learned from your mistakes and are
really hitting your stride.

My point is, it's okay that there's uneven reviewing. Yes, I'd love
more, but a lot of the people who don't review a lot, they'll be
reviewing more in a year or two. Just everyone do as much as you can or
are comfortable with. Whatever you do, I know people appreciate it.

Marta

Whoever that was: wow, you!

viv

http://www.livejournal.com/users/spacellama

--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Tanaqui <tanaqui@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
From: Tanaqui <tanaqui@blueyonder.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MEFAwards] Re: Stats for 2008 Awards


 (one of them reviewed more than 140 stories, but had set an

extremely high target), while a further 3 reviewed more than 25 stories

each.
























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--- In MEFAwards@yahoogroups.com, "aure_enteluva" <marta.fandom@...>
wrote:

>
> By popular demand, here are the 2008 awards, by the numbers. Thanks to
> Tanaqui for putting these together so quickly.
>
>
> For more number-crunching delight, compare to the 2007 award stats,
> available at
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEFAwards/message/8605
>
> Marta
> (MEFA Admin.)
>

My number obsessed heart is delighted! Another example of the slick
management of the MEFA awards... I can give no higher praise than to
say you gave stats! o.O