TAFL Survey!

[Hakka]

[quote name='Rain' post='270060' date='Nov 4 2009, 11:55 PM']16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Who invented fanlistings?[/quote]

The fanlisting concept was an idea of Janine (later the TFL founder), when she wanted a site to list the fans of Buffy The Vampire Slayer tv show (this fanlisting is still online, by the way!)  :wub:

[Mitzrael]

[quote name='Tess' post='270101' date='Nov 5 2009, 02:47 PM']From conversations with others, I think a number of people forget the staffers don't spend their entire lives staffing; it's an automatic (and incorrect) assumption for people to think that staffers handle situations like that all the time, and there's sometimes a general fear that staffers won't like us commoners. :wub: That's my two cents, anyway![/quote]That's an interesting way to see it indeed, but seriously we're not that scary :wub: sure we have to put on a neutral tone most of the time when staffing and that I can think of there's no other tone beside 'formal' to do so x: I guess it can be off-putting but in order to not fall in bias or 'favor' friends/known members it must be used.

Anyway, it doesn't mean we don't have our own problems and lives like everybody else :heart: but, as I'm sure you've seen yourself we're just as any other person around, even if we carry additional responsibilities, and have fun at this :heart: community! :heart:

[Daphne]

01. Your name
Daphne. That's really it :heart:

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
10

03. Do you have an FL collective?
I'm actually closing mine down, but I'm making a newer one at some point :wub:

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
I was back making websites after 2 years away from it, and I kept running into fanlistings to join, so I decided to make some. TAFL was a natural progression because I never lost my love for Anime/Manga.

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Jackie, Estefania and Marie (and the rest of the TAFL staff  :wub:)

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Gosh, this is hard. I think Sarah, Kibou and Janice, because I love their originality and gorgeous colouring (something I never seem to achieve with my designs!)

07. What's your favorite category?
My owned FLs would suggest Characters 0-M and Series. Of course I have a soft spot for my own category, Relationships :heart:

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
As above, a tie of both.

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
I do like being approved :heart: And when I'm inspired, making the layout in Photoshop!

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
WHY CODES, WHY?!

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
Ranma Saotome, not even a question.

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
I'm only going to pick from my own, because there are too many other ones I love out there. Haruhiism is probably my favourite. I love the *rainbow*

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Check new posts in the staff forum and elsewhere

14. What is your favorite forum?
Hot Topics

15. What's your favorite avatar?
Man, Marie your Halloween one STILL cracks me up XD

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
...?

17. Did you know...?
I still own the first fanlisting I was ever approved for at TAFL, Ami Mizuno. She'll be 4 years old in a couple of weeks

[Mitchii]

01. Your name
Real name – Cecille; Online - Mitchii

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
29 + 1 upcoming

03. Do you have an FL collective?
yup – here.  


04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
Search engines… I guess. Fls are always the first sites that pops out in search engines.

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Almost all of the board members but if I need to pick three I’d say Estefania, Nekoi  and Mitzrael.

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Everyone is so good… (if only I can list everyone). But people who have awesome designing skills,  aside from the three above, Masao, Sarah and Janice.

07. What's your favorite category?
The categories where I do the troubles check, 0 – M and Relationship.


08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Coincidentally, I got 7 for both of my fave categories. Wow~


09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Designing layouts!  

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Codes, specially for my own fls. The images is too little to work with. But I love making codes for others which is…idk, weird?

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
Allen Walker and nothing else!

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
My newest fanlisting – Music of Naruto (because it is so orange and it has tiny animated gif – if that thing is noticeable).


13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Check new post .


14. What is your favorite forum?
Hot Topics, Shameless Self-Promotion  and Off-Topic Chit-Chat  


15. What's your favorite avatar?
Anything that is related to my fave series. Everyone has wonderful avatars!

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Who design the TAFL logo? (and what font is it?)


17. Did you know...?
1. It took me one year before I learned to use Enth.
2.  99% of my fls are from TAFL.

[Mishiro]

01. Your name
Elizabeth, but you can call me Beth for short~

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
28 + 3 upcoming

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Yes, it's called Prism~

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
I stumbled across a fanlisting one day and it brought me to TAFL. At first I didn't know what were fanlistings for and why people had wanted to make them but slowly, I understood that it's a kind of hobby and passion. :3

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
I should say... Erm... Mizuiro (my online twin sister) for her neat styles and javascripts, Nekoi (my online momma :hug:) for her creative navigation bars and yet more javascript and Yamila (a cheerful and upbeat girl in my eyes ^o^) for her awesome designs~

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Sarah, Annie and Mitzrael~ :yahoo:

07. What's your favorite category?
Characters 0-M and N-Z, I guess~ ^_~

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
I got 11 and a few more upcomings in the N-Z cat~ O_O;

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
I'd say... Codes making! :heart:

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Maybe coding, cause I'm not that good in coding yet~ Never undergone true training. :help: :blush:

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
Pokemon!!! :help:

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
Silver Wind: the Agehanto/Beautifly fanlisting or maybe Colourful Canvas: A little tribute to Sara-chan, my celoved cousin~

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Check for new posts~

14. What is your favorite forum?
Shameless Self-Promotion! :wub:

15. What's your favorite avatar?
Something shiny with Pokemon in it. =3

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Nothing for the moment. ^^;

17. Did you know...?
01: I've only been web designing for a year and I'm stupid.
02: I easily get bored of the layouts I make and wanna change them often, but I do not have enough time to do so.
03: I have always wished for my own domain name. XD

[Wendy]

01. Your name
Wendy xD

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
28 beloved babies!!  :heart:

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Yes! Recently revived from the dead here xD

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
My dear friend Hazelyn :3 she got me into fanlistings overall and she's the one who got me my domain 5 years ago, wouldn't be here without her at all :blush: :yahoo: She used to have fls but not anymore

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Gah just 3?? A lot of people do!! :help:

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
So hard to pick just 3 T___T everyone is awesome !

07. What's your favorite category?
Hmmm toughie! I don't think I have a particular fave

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
It's a tie between relationships and songs with 7 each xDD!

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Building the fanlisting and the pimping! (although I always feel embarrased when I pimp believe it or not  :hug: )

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
The pending approval/rejection period @_@

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
Hmm one that goes against the rules would be Haro x Lockon (Neil)  xDD :help:

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
This is one of my very faves :wub: gah I have such a bad memory but I have loads more just can't remember!! :x

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Check the new posts xD!

14. What is your favorite forum?
Off-Topic chit chat xD oh and Hot topics too :3

15. What's your favorite avatar?
Gah this is a hard choice so idk :x

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Hmm...oh! xD Who made the current TAFL layout? O: I've always wondered xD;; I feel like I asked this question before for some reason

17. Did you know...?
It's rare for me to like my own layouts :x I like them when I design them but once coded I start gettting all weird about them >_> *is a nut*

[Mitzrael]

[quote name='Wendy' post='270152' date='Nov 6 2009, 01:54 PM']17. Did you know...?
It's rare for me to like my own layouts :hug: I like them when I design them but once coded I start gettting all weird about them >_> *is a nut*[/quote]totally understand you there  :help: or when a new brilliant idea pops up in your head but you're already about to finish coding ugh  :help: those moments suck the most u_u

[Hakka]

[quote name='Mitzrael' post='270162' date='Nov 6 2009, 11:40 PM'][quote name='Wendy' post='270152' date='Nov 6 2009, 01:54 PM']17. Did you know...?
It's rare for me to like my own layouts :hug: I like them when I design them but once coded I start gettting all weird about them >_> *is a nut*[/quote]totally understand you there  :help: or when a new brilliant idea pops up in your head but you're already about to finish coding ugh  :help: those moments suck the most u_u
[/quote]
Ditto. -.-

[Elysa]

01. Your name
Chibi

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
22 at the moment.

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Yes, Connected.

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
I don't remember, but it might've been because a friend linked me to her Lilo & Stitch fanlisting and then I discovered TFL xD I didn't get involved in the community until TAFL was founded and I joined the boards though :help:

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most?
Janice, Marie & Sarah

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs?
Airi, Sasa & Wendy

07. What's your favorite category?
Characters & Series

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Characters 0-M & Characters N-Z with four in both categories.

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Designing & coding the layout, even though coding can be such a pain at times~

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Writing applications and the about page, I wish my thoughts would put themselves on paper XD Also, getting into series shortly after subjects from it are approved, lulz.

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
LOL.. I actually can't come up with anything that wouldn't be approvable right now, nor do I have a subject that sticks out way above any others to pick only one :3

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
Too many pretties to choose from! ;A;

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Going through the new posts :3

14. What is your favorite forum?
Probably the Hot Topics!

15. What's your favorite avatar?
Again, there's too many to pick from /skips~

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Absolutely no offense meant, but I've always wondered how some people can manage owning a big number of fanlistings! I already have trouble with the amount I have, which I consider to be a lot for myself XD;

17. Did you know...?
It wasn't until 2008 that my collection of fanlistings started to grow exponentially. Seriously, 13 fanlistings in less than two years, as opposed to 9 in three years >>;

[Mitzrael]

[quote name='Chibi-chan' post='270204' date='Nov 7 2009, 11:28 AM']16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Absolutely no offense meant, but I've always wondered how some people can manage owning a big number of fanlistings! I already have trouble with the amount I have, which I consider to be a lot for myself XD;[/quote]no offense taken Chibi  :help: I really wonder that myself most of the time :help: I still have no real answer to that question though >>;

[Courtney]

01. Your name
Courtney

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
10

03. Do you have an FL collective?
I do, i do~

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
I used to be hardcore into pixel art. It seems like one day i stumbled upon a site who had joined buttons on the front page. I was like 'what IS that', and it basically went from there. :hug:

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Ahh, there are many people who inspire me! But if i have to choose, probably Masao, Yamila, and Wendy.

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Suzumi, Sasa, and Janice.

07. What's your favorite category?
Characters! Without a doubt. >D (probably n-z)

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Characters~

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
I like the building part. I whine and complain about how much i hate css, but you feel so accomplished when you see a fanlisting completed. >o<

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Rejections are certainly no fun, but i don't get upset about them. So probably the worst would be the wait for pending apps.

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
Maybe the series Pandora Hearts? I don't know, there are far too many to choose from. ><

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
I have no idea. o-o; Far, far too many fantastic layouts to choose from.

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Click 'Today's active topics' to see whats new today!

14. What is your favorite forum?
Off-Topic Chit-Chat  

15. What's your favorite avatar?
y, hamburger of course! No, really. I have to echo that there are waaay too many pretty avatars to choose from. <3

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Hmm, when TAFL split from TFL, did much of the TFL community follow? Or was TAFL well, dead, for a while?  :help: *Silly question*

17. Did you know...?
1~ That i hate all of my layouts? Don't know why, i seem to like them enough before coding, but after...
2~ That i mostly apply for EVIL characters? Evil is much cool in my mind. (No, seriously. I think i have 2 good fanlistings?)  :help:

[Tess]

[quote name='Mitzrael' post='270106' date='Nov 5 2009, 07:20 PM'][quote name='Tess' post='270101' date='Nov 5 2009, 02:47 PM']From conversations with others, I think a number of people forget the staffers don't spend their entire lives staffing; it's an automatic (and incorrect) assumption for people to think that staffers handle situations like that all the time, and there's sometimes a general fear that staffers won't like us commoners. :wub: That's my two cents, anyway![/quote]That's an interesting way to see it indeed, but seriously we're not that scary :help: sure we have to put on a neutral tone most of the time when staffing and that I can think of there's no other tone beside 'formal' to do so x: I guess it can be off-putting but in order to not fall in bias or 'favor' friends/known members it must be used.

Anyway, it doesn't mean we don't have our own problems and lives like everybody else :blush: but, as I'm sure you've seen yourself we're just as any other person around, even if we carry additional responsibilities, and have fun at this :yahoo: community! :hug:
[/quote]
Despite the fact that I said I was petrified, I still enjoy TAFL and the staff here! I've worked with you and Rileth with the Songs category, and you both were/are so nice, it's stunning how much patience you have! Not saying we're all a handful, but I'm sure an angry/annoying fanlisting owner has made an appearance or two (...I may or may not be one of them? ...).

No, I understand completely that you all have lives, and I love seeing you outside TAFL (that sounds bad), because even *I* sometimes forget, and I'm very much the believer in leave-fanlistings-at-the-computer stuff. As you said, everybody is just the same, if not a bit different!

[quote name='Courtney' post='270211' date='Nov 7 2009, 01:55 PM']17. Did you know...?
1~ That i hate all of my layouts? Don't know why, i seem to like them enough before coding, but after...
2~ That i mostly apply for EVIL characters? Evil is much cool in my mind. (No, seriously. I think i have 2 good fanlistings?)  :help:[/quote]
For 1, I understand this completely! It's so nifty in PSP/Photoshop/GIMP, but after it's coded and up, the dazzle has sizzled away. (Or maybe that's me.) As for number two, well...:heart: Evil = good, good = bad!

[Amber]

01. Your name
Amber, though fanlisting related it is Rei for an online alias.

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
12 + 2 Upcoming

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Yes I do. :help:

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
Honestly, I came across the TAFL after visiting the Sailor Moon series fanlisting several years ago and I always thought it would be neat to own them. So, I eventually applied for the subjects (and later adopted several) and got approved.

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Rain, Chibi-chan, and Beth

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Buruma, Bura, and Hakka

07. What's your favorite category?
The Characters N-Z, because of all the Pokemon related fanlistings!

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Characters 0-M.

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
I say finally getting the fanlisting up.

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
I'd say my least favorite part is working with my graphic programs to make nice graphics.

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
I'd apply for the Piplup/Pochama fanlisting, because that is my favorite Pokemon! :hug:

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
I'd say this one, because it fits how Vegeta and Goku are against each other! Though, I like a lot of different designs of everyone's fanlistings, so it was hard to pick this one.

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
I check out the Shameless Self-Promotion to see what fanlistings have come up.

14. What is your favorite forum?
This one is hard. Maybe the Fanlistings Chit-Chat?

15. What's your favorite avatar?
None

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
What was the original purpose of creating fanlisting collectives? XD;

17. Did you know...?
-I still have my first two fanlistings.
-I sadly lost my members list for some of my older fanlistings when a crash occured over a year ago. :help:

[Mishiro]

[quote name='Rei Hino' post='270218' date='Nov 8 2009, 07:39 AM']07. What's your favorite category?
The Characters N-Z, because of all the Pokemon related fanlistings![/quote]
That's what I love the N-Z category too, my dear~ :help: :help:

[Crystal]

It would happen eventually...

01. Your name
Crystal (which is my real name btw)

02. Total number of TAFL fanlistings
13 much to my surprise. Majority of them are crosslisted from TFL though.

03. Do you have an FL collective?
Yeppers! :hug:

04. Who/What got you into TAFL?
I think it was when I randomly stumbled upon the Sakura (from CCS) fanlisting when it was still under the ownership of Stacey Ann at peach-arrow.net. :help: I took an interest in fanlistings and it just took off after that.

05. Which fanlisting owners inspire you the most? (Limit 3!)
Oh goodness. I dunno... There are a lot of people.

06. Which fanlisting owners blow you away with their designs? (Limit 3!)
Who doesn't blow me away more like it. Everyone is just so amazing at what they do. :help:

07. What's your favorite category?
Characters or Relationships. XD

08. Which category do you have the most fanlistings in?
Characters N-Z I think.

09. What's your favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Building the layout.

10. What's your least favorite part of the fanlisting process?
Rejections. But I'm totally over it in a day so yeah. XD

11. If you could apply for anything, no rules attached, what would it be?
I honestly have no idea...

12. Favorite fanlisting layout?
Do I have to pick one? There is really a lot I like...

13. What’s the first thing you do when you sign on the boards?
Just browse around the various threads mostly...

14. What is your favorite forum?
I don't really have a favorite. XD

15. What's your favorite avatar?
Must I choose!? D:

16. What's something you’ve always wondered about TAFL &/or fanlistings?
Can't think of anything right now...

17. Did you know...?
I'm not big on rivalries. I tend to think of rivalries as rather an interesting relationship. :heart:; (ie: Kyou & Yuki