[ SECRET POST #5748 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5748 ⌋

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


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Notes:

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Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

Re: Petty fandom rants

[(Anonymous)]

The archive tags are helpful. The lower case streams of consciousness people pour into their tags on the other hand...

Re: Petty fandom rants

[pantswarrior]

I would've been like YES, THIS! a few months ago, but weirdly, I've found that it depends on fandom for me. In a serious fandom or particularly serious story in a goofy fandom, the stream-of-consciousness tags seem sort of annoying... but in a lighter fandom that has plenty of canon absurdity, absurd tags kind of add to the absurdity and I find it kind of fun. There is exactly ONE fandom I will do that in, but it honestly seems like the fandom convention in that case, and largely expected/anticipated.

On the other hand, what's been annoying me lately is people who add like a billion freeform tags that are just like... rephrasing of the archive tags, or even the same freeform tag over and over. Like the same pairing listed in the pairings tag, but posted in the opposite order, and then again with nicknames. Or "original trans character" and "original trans male character" and "trans character" and "trans male character" and "original male character" all on the same fic. o_o I don't see that that particular sort of wall of text is amusing, helpful, or necessary...

Re: Petty fandom rants

[(Anonymous)]

They can be entertaining for sure. I still don't think they're useful. If I'm searching for a half-remembered fic, I sure wouldn't get much out of the million variations of "wrote this instead of sleep" and "character a is my baby girl", even if I might've laughed my ass off at the time of reading.

Lol, are those people operating under search engine optimization rules? They know that's not how it works on AO3, right...

Re: Petty fandom rants

[pantswarrior]

That's what I'm assuming. I think I did this a couple of times, then clicked on the "inverted pairing order" version of the tag to see if anyone else had written the same pairing with a different pairing order and I thus hadn't seen it.

Aaaaaand it took me to the main pairing tag with the order it shows up in the dropdown, and I went "oh" and stopped worrying about it. XD

And no, stream-of-consciousness tags are not useful, often annoying, but as long as it's not a huge wall of text, the occasional one or two tossed in after archive tags will amuse me. And then some of them gain traction and become archive tags given time, which I find kind of funny. ;)