AKF Survey Results

By now, anyone who was going to take the survey has taken it by now, so I wanted to go over the results.

First, I noticed that a lot of readers have poor reading comprehension. There were a few times when we mentioned the changes that would be coming to AKF: here and here. Essentially, we moved from posting every day with short posts with little effort to doing longer, better posts, but not posting as frequently. I thought this was very apparent, but how would I know, as I've been gone for most of the year.

First, I'm going to touch on content that you guys want to see in the future. For the most part, people were content with the variety of articles that we write, but some people had some good suggestions that we'll incorporate if we can.

First, there are people clamoring for more fap articles for male idols. It's never going to be as frequent as fap articles for female articles for a variety of reasons: while this site has more female readers than male readers, this blog is primarily aimed at male readers. There are so many other sites where you can find fap material for male idols. If Fany or any of the other female authors want to do a fap post for male idols, fine, but don't expect it to occur frequently.

Some people suggested that we go back to covering K-pop news, which will not happen unless there's a story that an author actually wants to cover. I've always found those articles to be the most boring to write, plus with the proliferation of other K-pop sites, you can find K-pop news anywhere.

Quite a few people wanted fapcams to come back, and a couple of authors are one step ahead of you guys.

Some people wanted more insight about nugu groups. Luckily, Kaylia already started that series just before the survey came out.

People want more specialty articles from me, such as comics, rap remixes, fanfics, "what netizens really meant", and MS Paint pictures. I'll post those when they would be appropriate to post, and I'm sure HYSF will post more fanfics for people to read when he returns.

People want more MV reviews. There have hardly been any in my absence since I was the only one who reviewed them regularly. I'll try to do more MV reviews, but I will not try to review every MV when it comes out.

People want more STFU posts. Shinbi is really erratic with her posting, and when she officially resigns in the near future, we'll find someone to take over the series.

On a related note, a few people expect every article to be making fun of fangirls. That's not what AKF. It is a philosophy of going against what K-pop fangirls believe how fans should be. AKF is mainly enjoying K-pop how you want to, regardless of what fangirls say. You don't have to like every song from your favorite group, or even like every member. There are a million of other examples of what the AKF spirit embodies.

Lastly, on this subject, I have to address something. There is a loud, vocal minority that essentially wants this site to have every post like Kpopalypse's posts. I'm sure Kpopalypse would agree with me in that would be very bad for the site. I really enjoy his articles, but what makes AKF work so well is the diversity in writing styles and viewpoints. For every one reader that likes an author, there is another reader who doesn't like that author. I'm not going to alienate half of the readers for a vocal minority.

Next, I'll address the responses about my absence. For the most part, people have enjoyed AKF without me being here, and for people choosing "Yes and No," the comment essentially was "I like the new authors, but the site needs you to post again."

For the most part, people like the new authors. A lot of them are new to writing for a blog, so I expect to see the new authors improve over time. Many people are split on HYSF, which is what I expected. I am not going to remove someone who I personally picked to take my spot, so those people can stop asking for me to fire HYSF.

A lot of people are asking for more frequent posting, which is unrealistic unless we add more authors or unless you guys pay me more than what I'll be making at my job. For the most part, HYSF and I will be doing mainly scheduled posts from here on out. He'll be starting grad school at the end of August, and his summer internship is making him busier, which is why I've been back to take over him for a bit. Expect me to be gone for the majority of July, as I'll be in Chicago for training. 

I do expect to be posting a large percentage of the articles on AKF in in the foreseeable future, but I don't expect it to be around 70% like it used to be. HYSF will pick up some the slack, but it's going to be much like how it is this year: everyone else pitching in, especially the new authors. HYSF is much more open to taking risks on new authors than I am, mainly because it backfired on me back in 2011, but with dedicated editors, the quality of the posts from the new authors is better than what we had in 2011. 

Anyway, that's really it.