Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4830106-20140921022402/@comment-25713341-20141111140855

AnonymousReader wrote: Are there actually any statistics about the popularity of every ship on fanfiction.net? Not any official. I could try and write a script to establish such statistics but it would have two fail-points:

- A: FF.net has a very aggressive attitude toward DDoS (it sometimes even take real users who open multiple pages on the website at the same for persons attempting a DDoS), so I figure that if my script is remotely fast in it's analysis of one pages content and loads another page in a quick time period I'll be marked as doing a DDoS attack.

- B: It could only count pairings marked appropriately in it's summary meta-data ([Neo, Yang Xia Long] for example), which will leave a lot of fics pass in holes in the net. I could make so it doesn't care for the brackets in fics of "romance" and pairs them automatically if their is two characters in the description, which will also, whilst fixing false negatives, add a fair deal of false positives.

Anyway, if you guys think it's worth a shot, I could always go to a friends place and then get his place banned for DDoS in my steed XD.

Addendum: DDoS stands for Distributed Denial-of-Service, which is when you flood a server with requests in an attempt to crash it.