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Hello Pokecommunity :)
For those of you who use Fanfiction.net to find stories (when you've run out of material here, of course :P), you may have found that it is exceptionally difficult to sort the well written, quality stories, from the generic drivel. This is because unlike Pokecommunity, there is no quality control, and therefore no means to find something actually worth reading outside of communities. Communities are not comprehensive, are very biased, and are rarely updated.
Fear not!
I have written a code script which pulls all the info about every story for an entire fandom (including review count!) and exports it to Excel.
tl;dr - skip to final paragraph.
This means that you can sort stories by review, or update date, or any of the other info provided by Fanfiction.net in its regular search. My favourite index of quality is number of reviews divided by number of chapters, since many people review every chapter so this gives an idea of how many people have reviewed.
A quick note about why such a search is not available on Fanfiction.net: Sorting by reviews means that stories with low review counts (because of low quality or newness) get overlooked. If everyone only read stories with lots of reviews, no new good stories would ever get reviewed, and so they would never get discovered. Please keep this in mind, and search the newly published/updated stories often!
I won't link to the databse just yet, but if anyone is interested in it, for pokemon or any other fandom, please reply here, and I will put it up or PM you.
For those of you who use Fanfiction.net to find stories (when you've run out of material here, of course :P), you may have found that it is exceptionally difficult to sort the well written, quality stories, from the generic drivel. This is because unlike Pokecommunity, there is no quality control, and therefore no means to find something actually worth reading outside of communities. Communities are not comprehensive, are very biased, and are rarely updated.
Fear not!
I have written a code script which pulls all the info about every story for an entire fandom (including review count!) and exports it to Excel.
tl;dr - skip to final paragraph.
This means that you can sort stories by review, or update date, or any of the other info provided by Fanfiction.net in its regular search. My favourite index of quality is number of reviews divided by number of chapters, since many people review every chapter so this gives an idea of how many people have reviewed.
A quick note about why such a search is not available on Fanfiction.net: Sorting by reviews means that stories with low review counts (because of low quality or newness) get overlooked. If everyone only read stories with lots of reviews, no new good stories would ever get reviewed, and so they would never get discovered. Please keep this in mind, and search the newly published/updated stories often!
I won't link to the databse just yet, but if anyone is interested in it, for pokemon or any other fandom, please reply here, and I will put it up or PM you.