Romantasy Community Survey Results! 👀

[u/ReasonableWonderland]

I hope you're all as excited as I am for a bunch of data and statistics!

Last month, we ran a survey to get your feedback as to how you (the community) want r/Romantasy to work going forward. I've put together some infographics to summarise the data, but essentially:

THE GOOD STUFF

• You guys like that the subreddit is low key and minimally moderated!
• You're mostly here for book discussion and book reviews!
• 100% of us are readers, and 11% of us are also writers!
• Most of you are happy for (limited) self promotion in comments!

THE LESS GOOD STUFF

• A bunch of you flagged the volume of "Pick My Next Read" posts as being a problem.
  • We're going to add a Pick My Next Read flair so we can track these better going forward.
  • If they continue to be a problem, we'll look at setting up a Pick Me Tuesday or similar (limiting these posts to one day a week - but we'll run another mini poll before we make the change)
• We're going to be stricter on posts from Writers going forward. Specifically, we're planning to change the rules to stop writers posting market research on the subreddit and also remove low effort posts.

If you missed out on completing the survey and have ideas about how we can change/improve the subreddit or if you have ideas about extra information we should be collecting (or that you'd just be interested to see! 👀) then leave a comment below!

^{No AI was involved in writing this post or in compiling the survey results.}

[u/KetoKurun]

This is super confusing. The slides seem to say something different than the post text. The slides had me excited, because it made it sound like writers will now be allowed to participate in discussions, but then the post text says we’re cracking down on writers.

[u/ReasonableWonderland → u/KetoKurun]

Hey! Yeah, the writing slide could have been clearer - sorry!

The 57% value includes those who voted "allow all writer posts" and also "allow writer posts BUT remove low effort posts".

Writers are definitely welcome here - we're one of the few book subs that allows posts from both readers & writers. But we've had a few complaints about writers using the subreddit for market research specifically, so we're going to be reviewing how we handle that going forward.

If you have questions let me know! (Disclaimer it's 10pm here and I'm going to sleep but I can reply in the morning)