I hate it when people tag minor and background pairings because as someone who reads a lot of rare pairs and has a lot of OTPs that are often considered default background pairings, then I CAN'T filter them out. If I'm reading something that is tagged for my pairing, I want to actually read a story about that pairing, not something that's actually about someone totally different and they're window-dressing in it. (And given that some people tag in order of major pairing -> minor pairing and some people tag from first chronological pairing in the story!verse -> current/ending pairing there is no real way to tell from the tags.)
Maybe the only thing we can all really agree on is that man, the tagging system on AO3 *really sucks* for easily and accurately finding the fic you want to read?
Re: Can we just agree on this?
I hate it when people tag minor and background pairings because as someone who reads a lot of rare pairs and has a lot of OTPs that are often considered default background pairings, then I CAN'T filter them out. If I'm reading something that is tagged for my pairing, I want to actually read a story about that pairing, not something that's actually about someone totally different and they're window-dressing in it. (And given that some people tag in order of major pairing -> minor pairing and some people tag from first chronological pairing in the story!verse -> current/ending pairing there is no real way to tell from the tags.)
Maybe the only thing we can all really agree on is that man, the tagging system on AO3 *really sucks* for easily and accurately finding the fic you want to read?