1

You obviously have not looked too closely.

Pong (Yes, that game Pong.) has 110 entries.

A worthwhile thing to remember is Mike Stackpole's take on fanfiction - if you are going to invest the time, effort, and imagination to write good fanfiction, you might as well use it to write your own original fiction and try to make some money off of it.

On the other hand, I do remember that at least one author chosen by Lucasfilm to write for their Star Wars novel line actually got notice because of her fanfiction writing.

C.T.

 

2 Whenever fanfic comes up, I tend to run screaming in the other direction.  Except for one specific title: The More Things Change.  For all intents and purposes, it's Azumanga Daioh in college, and it's just marvelous.

3

Living in a glass house, I cannot throw stones at Naruto slashers, at least not big ones.

But I'm very surprised that you were able to find a referrer, since FF.net filters material heavily. The only place that takes URLs is the "homepage" field. So either someone used his "homepage" to point to Chizumatic, or it was a fake referrer (many tools allow to specify referrers, for example curl does).

4 It's possible someone was spoofing the referer as a way of advertising their story. The page didn't contain a link to me.

5

By the way, sorry, Pete. I didn't mean to gore your ox.

(At least you're not a filker.)

6 So it's a referrer spam. But using such techniques to promote fanfics seems too desperate.

7

There are some strange people out there. There's a guy named Brian Carnell, who back in the day I linked to a few times. Starting a few months ago his server (!) started visiting mine every once in a while and accessing five or six randomly chosen pages, using his base URL as a refer on all of them.

The first time it happened I went and looked, and there were no refers to me on his front page. But it kept happening. Eventually I got tired of it and added his server's URL to my firewall block list.

Anyway, it's really easy for an individual to do that. Proxomitron can do it, for example.

In this case, the URL was to one of the Saki fanfics, and it came as a refer on an access to a page here which was about Saki. I suspect our friend set up a spoof refer, hit Google and searched for Saki, and started clicking links.

8

Apparently there are many levels below fanfic on the geek hierarchy:

http://www.brunching.com/geekhierarchy.html

The lowest of the low does indeed sound pretty definitive...