Follow-Up Poll: AU versus AR

[kennahijja]

Alright, people - I ran into a definition problem with yesterday's poll. Basically, I used the options Alternate Universe (AU) and Alternate Reality (AR) because those often turn up as categories in archives, but I have no idea what they mean exactly.

Ok, I do know what area they cover - from 'nonmagical AU' to H/D as dragon riders in a fantasy dimension to Harry-in-Slytherin to Sirius/Remus living happily ever after after the war, no Veil. But the difference? Not a clue. So...


[Poll #785583]

And abuse the comments if you run out of space!

Comments

[chthonya]

I'd never heard 'AR' before seeing your poll, so I can't comment on the difference but I'm looking forward to what everyone else says.

As to polls and cuts, I'm always afraid that lj-cutting means that people are more likely to ignore/not notice the poll. I feel that it's okay to leave them uncut if they don't take up the whole screen, but I feel it's a bit rude if people will be left scrolling down and down and down to get past it on their flist. So I'm closest to 'cut if it's longer than two or three questions', but the more important thing is the length of the poll. If three questions each have 15 options, probably best to lj-cut imo.

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

OK, AR is one of the choices over at the-archive, and I've always wondered what exactly differentiated it from AU :).

Yup, you exactly hit on my poll problem. If it's uncut, it's annoying to readers, if it's cut, nobody will notice. And as always, your solution is the best of all options ;).

[chthonya]

The other option would be to post two polls - one before the cut and one after. Then at least some tempting ticky boxes will show! I'm not sure if it's possible to put two polls in one post, though.