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I think the rubric for tagging characters in AO3 should be: if they have enough of a significant role that someone could look back at the story afterwards and go 'that's my favorite character in the whole fic!' then tag them. otherwise no.

Date: 2013-10-28 02:05 am (UTC)
aris_tgd: Shadow ships, "We could tangle spiders in the webs you weave." (Tangle Spiders Shadows)
From: [personal profile] aris_tgd
Man, I think tagging culture is divided between people who use tags to find things they want to read, and people who use tags to avoid things they want to not read. So people who really want to *find* fics including Rare Character A are disappointed when A only shows up in one minor scene, but people who really want to *avoid* A are irritated when ze isn't tagged.

Oh, fandom. You are difficult. I should probably tag more on stuff like kink fic and PWPs and tag less on huge epics, but in practice my tagging tends to be "how much effort do I want to go into at the exact instant I am posting something".

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