Questions and Questionnaires for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth

[ysabetwordsmith]

This is an advance post for Three Weeks for Dreamwidth (April 25-May15), so the resource will be ready on the first day. (See the introductory post from 2023.) This is the Threeweeks feed. Here is an advance announcement for the event.

Questions and questionnaires make great blog content, because they invite interaction. They're also among the fast, easy ways to make a post. So I gathered some materials and links to questionnaires ...


* Use introductions. If you run a community, provide a form so that new members can introduce themselves with their interests in the community's topic(s). A tag like "introduction" or "intro post" is helpful for organizing these. When you join a new community, look for an introduction form. If there isn't one, you can either do a casual introduction or make you own. Here is an example:
Name:
General location:
Why I'm here:
What I blog about:
What I'm looking for:

* Use recurring posts. (This post also contains links to some blog prompts and questionnaires.) These work in any blog and/or community to highlight things beneficial to fannish connections, or other areas of interest. They also play a vital role in maintaining activity.

A very useful subtype of recurring post is the questionnaire. You find a list of questions, which may be random or thematic. Then you post them to your blog, one at a time, to prompt conversations. You can answer them yourself if you wish, which encourages more people to respond, but you don't have to; you can just post the question. This is one of the fastest, easiest ways to maintain blog activity because you don't have to think up anything from scratch.


* Watch for friendship memes, question memes, fests, and other communal activities. Participate in them. Do you fondly remember some examples that have fallen out of use? If you still have a copy, revive them. If not, make a new version and run that instead. You can post a whole list to a blog or community and invite people to pick a question for you to answer. If you post one question a day and answer it, however, then the discussions will run a lot longer. I have one such list running currently, Philosophical Questions. I've also done this at cons in green rooms or con suites -- just print out a list of interesting questions / discussion topics, cut the page apart, and put a few on each table.

* If you moderate a community, then announce that your community is doing Three Weeks for Dreamwidth. Create a questionnaire for it (or find a premade one). You can do other things too, like a rec fest or friending meme. This helps boost activity in your community.

I made one for each of my communities:
Introduction for birdfeeding
THREE WEEKS FOR DREAMWIDTH: INTRODUCTION for allbingo
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Introduction for crowdfunding

And this is the general blogging one:
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth: Blogging Questionnaire

Here is this year's list:
Three Weeks for Dreamwidth 2024 Questionnaire


Blogging Questionnaires

Multifandom Questionnaires
-- 14 Questions All Sitcom Fans Need To Answer
-- 20 Questions About Role-Playing Games
-- 30 questions about Super Heroes / Villains
-- 50 Conversation Questions about Entertainment
-- 50 ESL Conversation Questions about Board Games
-- 50 Fun Questions About Video Games to Ask Your Friends
-- 50 Questions About Books and Reading to Ask Your Friends
-- 85 Questions for Book Lovers and Steamy Conversations
-- 100+ Catchy Movie Podcast Questions To Ask (2024)
-- 100 Questions about Movies for the ESL Classroom
-- 100+ Science Fiction Trivia Questions and Answers
-- 100 Warm Up Roleplaying Questions For Players
-- 105 Questions to Ask a Fangirl
-- 250 Bookish Questions for Bookstagram Captions or Book Clubs
-- Ask the Fangirl on Random Book of Randomness
-- Comics Conversation Questions
-- The Easiest Multi-Fandom Friending Meme You Will Ever Fill Out
-- F!S Friending Meme X
-- The 'Fandom What?' Friending Meme
-- Fandom Questionnaire
-- Fandom-related Questions
-- Heroes Conversation Questions
-- Heroes and heroines conversation questions
-- Questions for board gamers
-- Movies Conversation Questions
-- Music Conversation Questions
-- Prove You're A Nerd By Answering One Question For Every Fandom
-- Questionnaire on Fantasy Books
-- Questions for Fantasy Lovers Out there!
-- QUESTIONS TO THINK AND TALK ABOUT SPOT: Modern Fantasy
-- Reading Conversation Questions
-- Scans Daily Friending Meme
-- Science Fiction Book Club: Discussion Questions and Sci-Fi Book Recommendations
-- Science fiction conversation questions
-- Science Fiction Discussion Questions
-- Television and Video Conversation Questions
-- Time Travel ESL Speaking Questions
-- Ultimate Anime Trivia Quiz: 30+ Toughest Questions for True Anime Fans
-- Video Games Conversation Questions
-- Your Science Fiction Questions Answered
-- links to fandom surveys

Specific Fandom Questionnaires
-- 13 Questions Every Harry Potter Fan Should Be Able To Answer
-- 13 "Would You Rather" Questions That Will Stump Any Marvel And D.C. Fan
-- 21 Supernatural Questions
-- 31 Star Wars Questions
-- 50 Marvel Trivia Questions
-- 50+ Would You Rather Star Wars Questions for Diehard Fans
-- 77 questions that we have for ‘The Dragon Prince’ season 2 and beyond
-- 100+ Best Doctor Who Trivia Questions & Answers
-- 100+ Best Sherlock Holmes Trivia Questions & Answers
-- 120 Disney Trivia Questions and Answers to Make Game Night Magical
-- 2005 Enders Game Discussion Questions
-- Biggest Unanswered Questions In Supernatural
-- The Dragon Prince quizzes
-- Harry Potter Would You Rather Questions
-- Nimona Quiz
-- Star Trek Would You Rather Questions
-- Tolkien Reading Day Questionnaire
-- The Ultimate Buffy Fan Questionnaire
-- The Ultimate Buffy The Vampire Slayer Quiz
-- Ultimate Disney Fan Questionnaire
-- A Wednesday Addams Spinoff Is Coming To Netflix And I Wanna Know What % Wednesday Addams You Are
-- The Wednesday Addams Test
-- What is your Starfleet destiny?
-- What Marvel Character Are You Quiz

Non-Fandom Questionnaires
-- 29 hobbies conversation starters to spark meaningful conversations
-- The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
-- 40 Deep and Thought-Provoking Questions That Make You Think
-- 50 Topics to Spark Good Conversation
-- 99 Mindful Conversation Topics For Deeper Connections
-- 100 Getting to Know You Questions
-- 100 questions to ask a girl to get to know her better
-- 100 QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR PEN PAL
-- 150+ What's Your Favorite Things Questions: 2023 Edition
-- 151 Actually-Interesting Questions to Get to Know Someone
-- 170 Hypothetical Questions
-- 201 Good Questions to Ask Friends, From BFFs to New Pals
-- 250 Best 'Would You Rather' Questions for a Great Game Night
-- 250 Questions To Ask a Girl (Funny, Interesting, Deep)
-- 400 Fun Questions To Ask People (Friends, Family, Strangers)
-- 450 Would You Rather Questions
-- 500 Fun Questions to Ask People in ANY Situation (That Work!)
-- ESL Conversation Questions
-- Hobbies Conversation Questions from PrintDiscuss
-- Hobbies conversation questions from Teflpedia
-- Icebreaker Questions
-- Intellectual Foreplay Questions
-- Neighborhood Conversation Questions
-- Pets Conversation Questions
-- Science and technology conversation questions
-- Space exploration conversation questions
-- Sport Conversation Questions
-- Supernatural conversation questions (the topic, not the TV show)
-- UFO conversation questions

Lists of Questions by Topic
-- 225 Conversation Starters for Any Situation by Category
-- 231 Deep Icebreaker Questions to Build Authentic Connections by Category
-- 330+ Icebreaker Questions to Try with your Team by Category
-- Conversation Questions by Topics
-- Conversation Topics from ESL Vault
-- Discussion Topics
-- Teflpedia conversation questions

Make Your Own Questionnaire
-- Random Question Generator (found via snowflake_challenge)
-- How to create a blog survey to engage your readers
-- How to Create a Blog Survey Your Readers Will Love
-- Make a BuzzFeed Style Quiz That Goes Viral

Comments

[anxious_songbird]

Silly question propably, but what is Three Weeks?

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Three Weeks for Dreamwidth is an event where people celebrate the platform and try to attract new users. The core activity is posting content that only appears on DW (at least during the event). Many users and communities aim to post once a day or once a week during it. Some folks set a theme, others just post random stuff. Questionnaires and friending memes are popular too.

You could certainly post about the event in communities that you host, and see if anyone is interested in doing stuff. I have questionnaires for mine in case folks want to participate that way. I also mention that crossposts are welcome if anyone's chosen theme overlaps the community theme. So for instance, last year my theme was Birds and I crossposted those entries to birdfeeding. Let me know if you need a hand, I'm happy to help folks get involved with Three Weeks.

See last year's introductory post for more ideas on how to participate.

[quamquam20]

Great list of suggestions and questionnaires!

Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I hope this encourage more folks to participate in the event. Questionnaires are fast and easy to post, fun to do. The hard part is finding a good one, so I did the background work on that to assemble a link cloud that folks can browse to find a list they like.

Re: Thank you!

[quamquam20]

It's really clever and super approachable. Thanks for doing the work!

Re: Thank you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

*bow, flourish* Happy to be of service. I try to boost participation for DW as much as I can. I'll have an introductory post about Three Weeks for the 25th.

[pronker]

Very thorough post - thanks for the 31 Star Wars questions in particular. :)

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy I could help. I hope that people find things they will want to use.

[spiralicious]

This is an excellent resource post. Thank you so much for making it and sharing!

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad you like it. I decided to make this when I realized that I frequently recommend using a list of questions to make posts, but it's not all that easy to find a good list, especially if you want something fan-themed.

Re: You're welcome!

[spiralicious]

It's very helpful.

[lumiosecity]

Oh, what a fun set of resources, thank you for sharing!

You're welcome!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm glad you like these. I hope you find something here that you want to explore further.