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."
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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