[ SECRET POST #4569 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4569 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 18 secrets from Secret Submission Post #654.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

To me a wall of tags is the easiest sign of poor writing quality. Maybe not always true, but I always scroll past.

[(Anonymous)]

I've definitely found this to be true in practice

[(Anonymous)]

This is why I skip stories with a lot of silly tags.

[jadeile]

+1, I always skip fics that have a wall of tags.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this secret design, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. I gravitate toward fic with fewer tags rather than more.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like more tags makes it harder to grasp what it's about. You miss things, can't keep it all in your head as you try to synthesize it in your head as an answer to "Will I like it?"

Fewer tags doesn't guarantee anything, but if I don't like the fic I don't feel like it was my fault for not carefully combing through the tags, I just took a cggance and it didn't pan out.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I usually rely on a fic's summary to see if it piques any interest, but a wall of tags usually ends up confusing and discouraging me from giving the fic a chance.

Especially if a lot of those tags are the author just rambling. Please... keep that kind of stuff to the author's notes.

[(Anonymous)]

I just scroll on by because I can't read them all. And the few times I gave those fics a chance they turned out to be crap anyway.

[rosehiptea]

I almost always use four or five tags maximum, maybe a couple more if there are common squicks in the fic not covered by the archive warnings. I put a joke in the tags one time, I think, but it was still only about seven or eight tags total. I don't get the "wall of tags" thing at all.

[(Anonymous)]

There's an "edit your search" button once you've done your initial search (eg by pairing.) In the "keywords" box you put "-squick" "-second squick" "-third squick", etc and it narrows the results down real fast.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel you, OP. Less is more with tags. The fic can still be bad either way, but at least it's less obnoxious without a bunch of useless tags.