[ SECRET POST #2407 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2407 ⌋

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

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Comments

I share your pain, OP!

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I usually simply close my browser tab, and try to immediately forget what I've seen, but yes.

Though I am not sure I blame Tumblr per se, because:

1) I don't actually understand the attraction of Tumblr and hardly grasp the amount of fandom activity that's going on there. I am probably too oldskool or something.

After exploring it a bit in my most recent fandom, it is clear I just don't GET it...

2) huge amounts of junk existed long before Tumblr, they were just limited to other places, like say, ff.net.

The problem is that AO3 used to get -more of less- the best fic back when it was invitation-only and though we complained of elitism, we got spoiled: all that great stuff easily available in one place, most of it the classics of fandom and the highest quality of fanfiction in an easily readable format!

Now that AO3 is wide open, anyone can post and sadly people who don't know how to spell or are not familiar with the canon of whichever fandom they are into, or apparently not of legal age, based on their emotional maturity, are deluging us with an unending wave of crap that makes finding the good stuff next to impossible.

The fact the AO3 tags have now crashed and burned -too much political correctness was their undoing: "Oh let's not stifle the creativity of our immature colleagues" or whatever...- mean that there isn't even a way of filtering out the junk with a bit a simple logic (eg: minimum number of words, maximum length and number of tags, maximum number of spelling mistakes, exclusion of AUs, OCs etc.)

If it was possible to filter out the junk, I wouldn't mind its growing prevalence on AO3, but as it is, I cannot see the forest for the trees.

So yes, I really, really share your pain... I recognize this is the epitome of a first world problem, but that doesn't actually help.