[ SECRET POST #6077 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6077 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

There are just too many of them to be useful. Condense them down to broad functional predefined categories would be more useful for searching.

[(Anonymous)]

But having tags exist as hierarchical trees pretty much solves that on a design level. You can have very specific tags that then fold up into broad functional pre-defined categories, so people can search however they like.

In practice, it doesn't work bc the design requires people to actively maintain the tag tree hierarchy. And for organizational reasons tag wranglers have apparently been unable to do any of that work for like a decade. But that's a problem with the organizational structure, not the underlying design.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have examples of things you couldn't find because the tags weren't limited to predefined categories?

I don't think I've ever run into this issue. The only times AO3 tags weren't useful to me is when it comes to characters/relationships as not everyone makes it clear in the tags which characters/relationships are the focus. But an individual author can solve that by being clear in the tags they use, so this wouldn't even be an issue if authors put more thought into it.

[(Anonymous)]

????? Like, sure, authors gabbing away in the tags is annoying, but that's a user error. I love being able to find exactly what I'm in the mood for. Mafia!Au, petty!character, drowning, canon spiritual dildos, etc, etc. It's lovely.