Comment on OTW Board Approves Meta Hosting on the AO3

  1. salty_catfish Fri 15 Feb 2013 09:08PM UTC

    Well, media filtering that does not rely on all the different people tagging their works consistently and submission formats for works other than fic (and also their being hosted on the servers) are things that I am desperately waiting for anyway but it's just not a priority in development. Allowing meta doesn't introduce problems that don't already exist.

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    1. Elf_Herself Tue 19 Feb 2013 03:19PM UTC

      Rainbow fairy

      It does, because even if a work is tagged appropriately, there's no simple way to *exclude* an additional tag. The advanced search function doesn't come with the filtering options that other searches do; there's no way to remove "meta" and still sort fics by word count and complete only.

      And there's a policy difference between mandatory tags (warnings & ratings) and additional tags... right now, there is no requirement to include additional tags of any kind; the abuse committee won't add "oral sex" or "homophobia" to a fanwork just because some people want to find, and others want to avoid, those topics. The "meta" tag needs to be of a different type than tags like "kink meme fill" or "pegging."

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      1. salty_catfish Tue 19 Feb 2013 03:39PM UTC

        I'm sorry, but you simply didn't understand my comment. I'm well aware of what you said.

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        1. Elf_Herself Tue 19 Feb 2013 04:07PM UTC

          Rainbow fairy

          Sorry about that. I do think meta brings in problems that other fanworks haven't, if only because there's no consensus on a definition so the tags are going to be all over the place until there's a policy, at which point there'll be problems with "do we retag or warn the authors for the pieces that no longer fit the policy?" These problems could exist with fanart, but since there's no direct hosting, it hasn't come up, or hasn't been noticeable.

          I agree that meta hosting brings in no technical issues that didn't already exist; we've needed a "fanwork type" feature for a long time.

          I'm strongly in favor of AO3 hosting meta and I'm not looking forward to the wankstorms as the committees sort out policies and tech to do so well.

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