[ SECRET POST #2852 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2852 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Harold and Maude]


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05. [ SPOILERS for Blood of Olympus ]



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06. [ SPOILERS for The Walking Dead ]
[ WARNING for rape ]



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07. [ WARNING for rape ]



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08. [ WARNING for suicide ]





















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Comments

AO3

[nayance]

There was some griping about tag usage on AO3, and I want to add: I hate when people tag literally every single character that appears, and/or every single minor story element that just so happens to have a tag. Same when people talk in the tags like it's Tumblr.

Re: AO3

[(Anonymous)]

AO3 makes it too easy to throw a fic online. At least with even the minimal difficulties the pit throws up, most of the crazed fangirl on a sugarhigh crap is discouraged. It is no coincidence though that the golden age of fanfic, where we had long plotty and gen fics, was when you had to hand code your own website to host it. It is all well and good saying you can see from the synopsis which is worth reading and which isn't, but when it is page after page of badfics, then it just is not worth trudging through them in the hope of one non bad fic somewhere around page ten of the search results.

I wish AO3 would limit the number of tags it supports in order to enable better filtering and exclusion of false positives. Same with the pit, it allows two genres to be selected by the writer, but only allows the reader to filter out one. That means if you erase the hurt/comfort you still get a huge pile of hurt/comfort that has been dual tagged with romance, since the two are used almost interchangeably by many writers; usually the very badfic writers you are trying to duck.

Re: AO3

[nayance]

I used to like AO3 more than the pit because you could include specific tags rather than just characters/genre/etc, but that's been abused to fuck because of people tagging the stories with their own commentary, and because of people tagging literally every single thing ever.

What do you mean false positives? I'd like to be able to exclude things I don't want to see, if that's what you're getting at, but again there would be the problem of LITERALLY EVERYTHING'S TAGGED so I might be excluding character X and a story that mentions them for one line and otherwise doesn't include them at all will not be mentioned.

I've started to search out rec lists because AO3 is an exercise in frustration.

Re: AO3

[(Anonymous)]

A false positive is when you do a search for character A but get five hundred fics listing character A when s/he has only one line. A false negative would be doing a search which excludes character A, and as well as excluding the five hundred fics where they are tagged in despite having only one line, you also exclude one fic where tehy were a main character. Right now AO3 encourages false positives because they assume everyone is completely false negative averse. Now don't get me wrong I think there is a middle ground somewhere, but I'd much rather suffer a false negative and maybe lose a couple of fics than have to wade through the five hundred pages of false positives.

Re: AO3

[(Anonymous)]

Overtagging is my biggest issue with AO3 right now. It makes searching for rarepairs/unpopular characters in large fandoms impossible and it's so frustrating.