I think that if meta is allowed in the archive, better filtering is needed. It would be nice if people posted essays and discussions, but it's going to be pages and pages of tumblr reaction gifs cluttering the search results.
Being able to categorize your work in a way that users can find (or exclude it) from their searches is definitely going to be one component of hosting non-fiction (as well as other media formats) on the AO3. We are still in the early stages of discussing how we can best make that work in a way that serves both posters and searchers. But it will likely involve both actions by users and technical options. Unfortunately, a technical solution is likely to take much longer than the policy parts and tagging options, but chances are both will affect users' choices to post images to the AO3.
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