People, tag your fandoms right.
Mar. 24th, 2019 11:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auroracloudA regular pet peeve: why do people write New Who fic with only New Who characters etc. tagged on AO3, with no sign in the summary or the tags that there are in fact any Classic Who elements present, and then tag it both with Doctor Who (2005) and Doctor Who (1963) (ie. Classic Who)?
There's a reason those fandom tags are separate on the archive. If it's truly a crossover fic for both the new and classic series, by all means tag it with both. But trust me, when I'm looking in the Classic Who fandom tag, it's not because I want to read Ten/Rose or Twelve/Clara. It's really, really NOT.
It's pretty ridiculous that Ten/Rose is actually in the top ten relationship tags for Classic Who. Some of them might be legitimately there, for some crossover reasons, but based on the samples I've seen when I'm just trying to find new Classic Who content, the majority is most likely not.
I know I can filter tags to exclude things I don't want, but I shouldn't have to start my browsing by filtering out stuff that belong in the fandom tag in the first place.
Maybe I'll soon start leaving peeved comments in those fics, except that a) I don't want to increase their hit and comment count, and b) the sort of people who tag in the wrong fandoms probably aren't people I want to get into an argument with. So I'll just continue fuming on my own.
This is where I like the way Teaspoon is organized by era. People don't tend to stick random Twelve/Clara into the Second Doctor or Fifth Doctor categories unless it's really and truly a crossover.
There's a reason those fandom tags are separate on the archive. If it's truly a crossover fic for both the new and classic series, by all means tag it with both. But trust me, when I'm looking in the Classic Who fandom tag, it's not because I want to read Ten/Rose or Twelve/Clara. It's really, really NOT.
It's pretty ridiculous that Ten/Rose is actually in the top ten relationship tags for Classic Who. Some of them might be legitimately there, for some crossover reasons, but based on the samples I've seen when I'm just trying to find new Classic Who content, the majority is most likely not.
I know I can filter tags to exclude things I don't want, but I shouldn't have to start my browsing by filtering out stuff that belong in the fandom tag in the first place.
Maybe I'll soon start leaving peeved comments in those fics, except that a) I don't want to increase their hit and comment count, and b) the sort of people who tag in the wrong fandoms probably aren't people I want to get into an argument with. So I'll just continue fuming on my own.
This is where I like the way Teaspoon is organized by era. People don't tend to stick random Twelve/Clara into the Second Doctor or Fifth Doctor categories unless it's really and truly a crossover.
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Date: 2019-03-24 06:03 pm (UTC)(My current fandom has a similar mistagging problem, with novel vs. TV. The TV version is an adaptation, but a very different one with completely different worldbuilding and different characterisation, and people tag everything with the TV tag anyway, whether it applies or not. *sighs*)
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Date: 2019-03-24 07:18 pm (UTC)Hmm, but if you only tag it with "Doctor Who" then it doesn't show up for people who are looking through either of the actual fandom tags (ie. Doctor Who (1963) or Doctor Who (2005)). I usually go to the fandom first before I start searching for characters or relationships, so fics tagged only with the Doctor Who tag don't show up for me at all, until I look at the writer's profile for some other reason and notice the Doctor Who fics they've got. Something to take into consideration...
I only search New Who fics by filtering by characters or relationships, because it's such a huge fandom I'd never get anywhere if I didn't. But Classic Who is more modest-sized. While I have a few relationships I particularly look for (and I've favorited those tags so I just click on them from the front page), there are actually quite a few characters I enjoy reading, and especially, I like so much gen fic in that fandom as well, with a whole variety of different character combinations, and some gen fic doesn't even get tagged with the relationship tag, just the characters. So I like to browse through the fandom tag every now and then to see fic that I haven't got around to searching for - well, I would like to if it wasn't ingested with Ten/Rose and Twelve/Clara. Even just in the Second Doctor era I'd have so many different ways I'd need to search, because I love the Doctor and all the five companions of that era plus some of the guest characters, and even when I ship some characters I also like gen with them, and you can see how it grows quickly from there.