[ SECRET POST #3771 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3771 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

OMG, OP. I agree SO HARD. And I think you've got it even worse, if you're skimming search results for your rare pair and feeling your hope dwindle with every hit because it's Just. Another. Disconnected. MINI-FIC.

I'm one of those readers that goes on marathon AO3-crawls looking for ANY fic with my current beloved shiny object. In older fandoms (ie: fandoms that have been around longer than AO3 has), it's not unusual for pages and PAGES of earlier search results to be taken up by a single author archiving a pile of stories that are between 100-300 words. Each. As its own story. Usually barely tagged and without a summary. ARGH. I may usually rail at stories with 5000 tags, but I will THANK authors as I cheerfully scroll past massive drabble collections instead of having to slog through 15 pages of poorly tagged mini-fics, yeesh.

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I don't think that's the author's fault? AO3 does import older fic archives, which obviously can't be easily autotagged

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you... There's this very tiny fandom I'm in that someone has FLOODED with mini-fics. And when I say flooded, I mean that they have posted 600+ 'fics', some of which are little more than 100-200 words.

Bad enough that most of the other fics for this fandom are crossovers, which is not what I'm interested in, but then sorting through literal hundreds of crap 'fics' to find anything that's not written by this same person is nearly an impossibility. :(

[(Anonymous)]

I thought there was a way you could exclude an author from your searches in AO3?

[(Anonymous)]

The AO3 search method is a hot mess. Unless you are a power user of the site it makes no sense.

[dancing_serpent]

And on the other hand there are those who feel their hope dwindled by those collections. I'm always disappointed when I find a nice long fic for my rarepair, and then it's just a collection of disconnected one shots. What's the point of posting it this way other than fishing for Kudos and taking the top position on the list for those who are sorting by Kudos?