[ SECRET POST #4436 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4436 ⌋

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Comments

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[ailurophile6]

Um, doesn't everyone do this?

[(Anonymous)]

Nah, I like tags. I generally prefer a medium amount of tags, but a large amount of tags has never really bothered me, and sometimes I find some of the tags really amusing.

[rosehiptea]

I like reading amusing tags but if there are half a page of them they'd have to be pretty damn amusing to make me want to actually read the story.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - Yeah, I wouldn't read an entire half page of tags (unless they were very amusing), but a lot of tags doesn't put me off. I just scan them for anything I actually want to know, and then go on to the story.

I'm not really sure how often I come across fics with tons of tags anyway, though, since I never really take note of how many tags there are. I feel like I probably don't come across that many fics with half a page of tags, unless it's a series.

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

I don't know that I've ever actually tried one. Not even the compilation oneshots or whatever. The moment I see too many tags, I'm out.

[(Anonymous)]

I can't be arsed to read all the tags but they don't determine whether I read a fic or not. Also, I'd rather avoid spoilers. People like to tag for angst with a happy ending. I like angst, but would rather not know whether there's a happy ending or not, ugh.

[philstar22]

I'm with you. Just tell me what is in your story. AO3 is not Tumblr.

[(Anonymous)]

THIS^

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience, it makes no difference in the content if there's 5 tags or 500 tags. BUT, I'm still not reading the ones with ridiculous amount of tags, if only because, well, they just annoy me ok.

[(Anonymous)]

When they go on, and on, posting every single tag possible, I honestly just want to click on their stories just to flame them. I'm talking the times when it takes a good few minutes just to bypass the literal pages of text, because their fic apparently includes every fandom/paring/tag ever. I never do, but I want to every time.

[(Anonymous)]

When I see a fandom dominated by this sort of thing, I won't only not read the million-tag fics, but I'll generally click out of A03 in discouragement that the fandom likely doesn't have a lot that I'm going to find worth reading, or that's not written by teens. Teens should absolutely write what they want, and cut their teeth in fandom works if they choose, but I'm not interested in what they write. I'm at a different place in life. And from what I can tell, teens are the ones who tag like that.

[(Anonymous)]

Same

Although I click on some of them anyway in various fandom specific exchanges which reliably produce good fic (after boggling at the bajillion tags the writers just had to include. Stuff like Coffee and Squirrels and Character Is A BAMF and whatever.)

[(Anonymous)]

Ugh, same.

Mostly because people tag for literally every ship in the fandom sometimes and naaah. Miss me with that bait.

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely loathe people who over-tag, so I feel you. I tend not to read their fics either, out of spite.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really care about over-tagging. I skip the tags, read the summary, and if it sounds like something that might interest me I go back and skim the tags for anything that might make me change my mind.

I do ignore the fics that have practically no tags at all, specially if they also don't have a summary.

[(Anonymous)]

the key is in the tags being proportional to fic.

tag list longer than the fic? blatant garbage.

great wall of tags with five hundred chapters and fifty fandoms? blatant garbage

huge amount of tags but the story is single fandom with maybe 30-50 chapters and a proportionate word count? probably fine.

[(Anonymous)]

I tend to treat a wall of tags the same way I treat a 'lol, I cant write summaries, just read please, i swear its good!' type summary. Avoid avoid avoid.

[ayebydan]

It annoys me when so many tags are used that it gives the impression a story might be about one thing, something I'd want to read, and then it absolutely isn't. So often now I don't scroll fandoms (my main are huge in mcu and hp) but instead filter a tag I want or a few I want to try get to the point. I miss out on some gems sure but it saves scrollin past reels and reels of stuff.

I also hate when the author is just talking to themselves in the tags.