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Chaotic plotter.
I plot everything extremely carefully and to the end of my stories, before I start writing. But there is a lot of freedom and last minute decisions in the way I structure my stories and a lot of last minute (not plot-altering) additions.
I can't imagine not plotting, but I would be extremely bored if I was just following the plotted storyline.
I am chaotic no matter what I do 
but I like to plot and that pic is me chaotically plotting only to not open my outline when I write 
Calm plotter, I guess? 
When I get an idea for a story, I need to know the ending and the main conflict. I outline each chapter but within a chapter, how the characters get from point A to B is unplotted.
It's impossible for me to do full-on pantsing since there are too many twists and clues in the story that have to be executed correctly. Unless it's short stories or very generic romance or shounen-like stories, I think I could survive without a plot. 
total pantser. Considering I earned my living as a staff writer in an audio drama company for 12 years doing nothing but pantser work, and in other venues, have taken down an award or two and been produced in other ways I'm inclined to look at it as less than chaotic.
But, when you've done it for as long as I have, I have to fall back on that old cliche... there is a method to my madness.
It works for me, as it does for others. Plotting works for others and not for me. The main thing is... each author works the way that works the best for them and that's how it should be.
Plotter here.
I have everything sketched out from beggining to the end of the season (and some stuff from the end of the series itself)... I could probably write the rest of season 1 in my story without sitting back to brainstorm almost anything.
Sometimes i'll even write down sketeches from other season, like i'll just act out a scene by myself and write a chapter of it, and I only intent to actually release that chapter a few YEARS from now... I actually have more than one of these already stored, and in fact, one of my most recent chapters was sketeched from basically the moment i began telling the story in ealry 2020, and only saw it's release at the start of this year.
As for chaotic or calm, I'd say both... Sometimes I write episodes on the vague concept I left a note about from six months back and i'm piecing my notes together as I go along, trying to make a nik of sense.
Other I write in complete quietude as it's a scene i already replayed in my head several times so the dialogue and actions flow effortlesly down.
I also feel like a lot of the 'good' of my writing comes when i edit it, as when that is being done is when I try to make it 'sound smart'... Before that it looks like a lot of 'he says' and 'i say'
I think i'm 85% calm plotter. I won't change the long-planned main & sub plots/characters, yet i make decision on dialogues at the last minute.
Chaotic plotter for sure... Not only I've written and rewritten the main plot over and over, but I also tend to be quite picky when some details (even the silliest one) tend to not be consistent or might make a plot-hole.
Most of the time I stop the revision or rewriting of the scenes because I have to make some adjustments to the one I went on before, and I don't proceed until I'm satisfied, although sometimes I became neurotic when a "Block" came.
Well, when you put it that way, I actually think I'm more of a chaotic plotter. ^^;
I do make decisions on the fly, but each one is usually meant to be the beginning of a new plot direction...until I make another decision that sparks yet another one.
Basically, any story I write is the culmination of hundreds of alternate universes. 
Almost entirely chaotic plotter. I need a lot of text files to make sure I don't lose parts of the plot as I forget them, but it's still kind of a mess until it gets to the scripting phase.
For key events i am a cold-calculating calm plotter.....Some of my key plot points are planned years in advance 
But i also allow myself ground for spontaneity in the creation of dialogues, jokes and last minute fixes/adjustments while embracing the controlled chaos.
I'm pretty far to the right on the plotter line, and just about riding the line, I think? Maybe one or two ticks toward chaos, but there are a lot of calm and chaotic moments when figuring things out.
And this too:
Chaotic plotter!
I need to know every single thing that will happen in my story, including some conversations that need to be added in said parts and even the cliffhanger of a chapter. Will stress out everything in a chapter and rewrite the plan of the plot multiple times more often than actually writing the story down.