Fictional-fans discusses tags & warnings on fanfic

[firecat]

This is a fascinating discussion, quite respectful and nuanced so far, on what people want out of tags in fanfic, and especially on reasons people might use the "Choose Not to Warn" AO3 option.

https://fictional-fans.dreamwidth.org/68137.html

Lesson learned: What people want out of tags: completely contradictory things, so my goal of perfectly tagging a fic is doooomed.

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[firecat]

I knew tag humor came from Tumblr but I didn't know why or how! I have no idea how it is supposed to help Tumblr's terrible search ability, but I really like it.

And yes, I wrote an AO3 fic in 2010 and it has very few tags.

And I do try to tag stuff that I know might turn some people off. (It's efficient that a lot of them are things that might turn some people on, heh.) But of course there's no way to know everyone's sensitive spots.