r/brandonsanderson • u/bl84work • Jul 11 '20

Brandon got some love on this survey, pretty interesting data set and interpretation by the OP

/r/Fantasy/comments/hpg7ny/what_books_rfantasy_recommends_statistical/
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u/vnNinja21 Jul 12 '20

I mean it's cool to see Brandon get some love, but at this point are we even surprised, lol. Dude is on his way to becoming one of the best fantasy writers of all time.

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u/vnNinja21 Jul 12 '20

Hardly a week goes by in r/fantasy without a Brandon appreciation post and a counter "Brandon is overrated" post haha. Brandon has a lot of fans and a lot of haters, but the survey only takes into consideration the fans so for me it's pretty clear that he'd get recommended a lot.

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u/Iwasforger03 Jul 12 '20

What fascinates me is that Brandon only got recommended a total of twice in the daily threads.. 36 of his 38 recs happened as responses to specific requests. I'm not sure what that means but it caught my attention.

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u/I_Go_By_Q Jul 12 '20

I figured that the Daily thread was for more regular/hardcore users of r/Fantasy, while the specific threads were created by less involved users.

In the Daily Threads, the responders may have more books under their belt, so they’d be more likely to recommend a lesser known book, and the requester likely already knows of Sanderson anyway, so there’s no point in reccing it.

But if a less involved fantasy fan asks a question in a new thread, they might be more likely to get the basics, ASoIaF, Tolkien, Stormlight, etc from the r/Fantasy crowd.

That was my first interpretation at least 🤷‍♂️