The thing with AO3 is that it's not terribly easy to exclude character tags -- with Tumblr tagging a character to exclude them actually works, because you can use a third-party thing to blacklist it, but with AO3 it can be more difficult. So I think it would make more sense to put 'character A appears briefly in bits x & y' in the notes or summary or even just misc-tag 'character a' than it would to tag them in the character tags.
---Of course, this wouldn't be necessary if AO3 would add a way for authors to distinguish 'main characters of story' from 'briefly appearing side characters in story' to their story info system.
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Date: 2013-10-28 03:14 am (UTC)---Of course, this wouldn't be necessary if AO3 would add a way for authors to distinguish 'main characters of story' from 'briefly appearing side characters in story' to their story info system.