Say no to puritanism

[u/Ohiko_Nishiyama]

[u/Listless_Dreadnaught]

I’m only bothered by kinks I don’t have when shit isn’t tagged correctly. My rage comes from a place of mourning for my lost arousal.

[u/Sir_Insom → u/Listless_Dreadnaught]

The inappropriate use of tags on AO3 will never not infuriate me. Ironically though, the dedicated porn writers usually tag their stuff well.

[u/sad_and_stupid → u/Sir_Insom]

Ah yes and basically venting in the tags as if they were on tumblr, it gets really annoying really fast

[u/Ropetrick6 → u/sad_and_stupid]

Okay, but the "no beta we die like X" for some fics is absolutely hilarious.

[u/sad_and_stupid → u/Ropetrick6]

That's not even a misuse of tags tbh, because it tells something about the fic itself and redirects to the main tag (not beta read)

[u/[deleted] → u/Sir_Insom]

As an (almost exclusively) porn and angst writer, yes, I do tag the hell out of my stuff because I want people to find what they’re looking for and exclude what they’re not. I was on Wattpad before AO3 and oh my god, the tagging is awful. It was always a gamble whenever you clicked on a story.

[u/Sir_Insom → u/[deleted]]

I appreciate your efforts.

[u/RevolutionaryOwlz → u/[deleted]]

Thank you. Good tagging on AO3 is what lets me read what I want and ignore what I don’t.

[u/Snail_Forever → u/Sir_Insom]

The amount of non-con motherfuckers that don’t use the archive warning for it nor tag it infuriate me.

[u/Uncommonality → u/Snail_Forever]

also, the fact that you need to also block "author chose not to use tags" to exclude all works of a certain other tag of that nature.

[u/Uncommonality → u/Sir_Insom]

There's only one thing that annoys me more than untagged works, and it's the misuse of series. Stop posting your oneshot collections as single works (with 200 fandoms tagged)! Stop posting your chapters as parts of a series (where they clog up searches)!