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Originally Posted by texasnightowl
Does anyone have any best practices for AO3? I am interesting in downloading some of my favorites but the out of control tagging on AO3 is insane.
What I would like to do is have tags only for fandom, ie. Harry Potter, Marvel Cinematic Universe, etc., and characters, maybe only the first 4 listed? I don't need tags for characters that show up for 2 lines and sadly, some authors do tag them! If there is a main relationship tagged I suppose I would like that too. But I don't want 50 or 75 or 100 other random tags that the author dreamed up that are useless.
Thanks for any advice.
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From what I recall, JimmXinu's official advice for AO3 metadata is "just give up, it's a disaster." But if I remember right, removing freeformtags from this would leave you with just the fandom:
Code:
[archiveofourown.org]
## AO3 doesn't have anything it calls 'genre'. The adapter used to be
## hardcoded to include the site specific metadata freeformtags &
## ao3categories in the standard metadata field genre. By making it
## configurable, users can change it.
include_in_genre: freeformtags, ao3categories
EDIT: Also, I should mention that AO3 semi-recently implemented a tag limit (thanks to that
one author who thought it was funny to use literally thousands of tags -- though now I'm curious how FFF would've handled that). It's honestly a bit of a relief.