Revisiting the IJRP threads + Surveys
I've found a morbid enjoyment of the way IJRP is discredited in various places. My favorite is still the RPG Site thread I linked a few weeks ago, which recently became active again. Some of the best comments:

"It is not that unpublished, non-academic editors do no belong on this new journal's board. It is the fact that their understanding of the topic is not coupled with editors who can claim to be peers in their peer reviews and article authors of previously published and reviewed material.

Having published a paper here and there, and knowing that people like, say, Richard Bartle, Kurt Lancaster and Markus Montola may have published a thing or two of some relevance, I find this just lovely.

And from annother guy: "Also, the journal has already been quoted as saying that if you scorn their ideas, it's just because you're "anti-intellectual."
So as with the Forgers, it all boils down to, "me smart, you poopyhead."
I must confess that such an attitude does not exactly make the pot look like it's boiling over with promise of great insights."

I quite clearly remember saying in my paper that anti-intellectualist style players, who favor the "simple fun" aspects of role-playing, tend to be hostile towards theory. Not that "all those who oppose theory are anti-intellectualists". But I guess it's easy for some to misread such things, especially if one is hostile to the whole thing in the first place.

Oh, and we're all just a biased niche group within the hobby, with absolutely no merits to discuss role-playing on an academic basis. As this is a claim by guys who have no idea who Gary Alan Fine is, it must be true. :)

In contrast, it's a true pleasure to see summaries like this written about role-playing theory.

On a very different note, I just found out that Godfather had distributed the questionnaire Satu and I designed in 2005, at a larp in Italy, and will be sending me results. Plus there was some further interest in using it over there. I look forward to comparing the new data with the ones I published in Jornal of Interactive Drama in 2006.