Entry tags:
Nutshell, a micro-rant
The reason that tag wrangling on AO3 should be a function that creators and viewers have immediate, front-end access to:
Because the people actually writing and reading (drawing, watching, editing) these stories are way more qualified to notice and appropriately associate an individual tag with the suitable parent/canonical tag than some random volunteer who just happens to like, or at least be willing to take on, the fandom in question.
Subsidiary reason: because hand-wrangling is going to kill the archive dead in its tracks with no capacity to grow much further before collapsing into chaos everywhere outside a few (western tv media) well groomed fandoms.
I am so intensely ticked off by the solipsistic, short-sighted, bad-design inertia of that project, there are really no words for it. And this, because I'd really love it if it worked. The current form is neither technically nor bureaucratically sustainable.
Turning off comments for the moment, because I'm so freaking pissed off I'd bite the head off even reasonably innocuous responses.
Because the people actually writing and reading (drawing, watching, editing) these stories are way more qualified to notice and appropriately associate an individual tag with the suitable parent/canonical tag than some random volunteer who just happens to like, or at least be willing to take on, the fandom in question.
Subsidiary reason: because hand-wrangling is going to kill the archive dead in its tracks with no capacity to grow much further before collapsing into chaos everywhere outside a few (western tv media) well groomed fandoms.
I am so intensely ticked off by the solipsistic, short-sighted, bad-design inertia of that project, there are really no words for it. And this, because I'd really love it if it worked. The current form is neither technically nor bureaucratically sustainable.
Turning off comments for the moment, because I'm so freaking pissed off I'd bite the head off even reasonably innocuous responses.