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⌈ Secret Post #2473 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The fact it has been in Beta for years?

Let's be honest: having a board and all sounds wonderful but without a clear goal to work in, nothing gets done or if something gets done at all, is at a extremely slow pace not because RL but because there's not agreement or communication between volunteers/committees/etc.

The other issue is that since it depends completely on the interest of volunteers, if someday there aren't enough people willing to do so is... what will happen? In some fandoms it's already obvious there aren't enough wranglers (and I understand why, it really is a thankless job) and the issues that causes.

Also, my experience has been very different. All the times I have had a question or a issue or when there have been a feedback request, I had always got a very nice answer that... doesn't help at all.
And feedback is always answered in such a way that sounds like they already decided everything and all feedback that isn't praise will be ignored... that's one of the reasons I fear the next category change, TBH.

I also disagree with the argument of "writers expressing themselves freely".
Is misspelling a character name really a way to express themselves? Is tagging the same characters by first name, last name, full name and nickname really a good way to express themselves? As I see, it only creates more work for volunteers while making harder to find something if there isn't a volunteer ready to wrangle it.
There's also the issue that when a wrangler isn't in a fandom, they can make a misspelled name the canonical tag. I have seen that happen more that once and while it's easy to send a message so it gets fixed, that also means a tag wrangler can end doing twice the same thing. Because apparently "freedom" is more important that making thing easier for volunteers and readers who want to find something even if there isn't a wrangler always in a fandom.

Freeform tags are great, though.

I agree it isn't a competition and I like and use both for different reasons.
Even so, just like I can see FFnet despairing if there are even legal issues with fanfiction as a whole (it's a business, after all, they won't fight unless they think they'll win), I can't see AO3 existing for many years for all the issues I already mentioned and I can't think of it as the wonderful site many say it is.