Snark incoming.

[krait]

Possibly one of the most useful features of a sci-fi/fantasy fandom: it's really easy to weed out fics you don't want to read, just by checking to see which ones can't spell the fandom-specific made-up words correctly. Kismesitude? Paidi Aiji? Valdemarian? NOPE, sorry, no +1 hit count for you!

(Also useful in these fandoms: excluding "human AU" from your search results; but that's another rant for a different day.)

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Unfortunately the last one is only good if they actually tag things. :(

(Due to my frustration at HOW MANY DIFFERENT TERMS TO I HAVE TO - TO MAKE YOU STOP SHOWING UP ARG)

[krait]

Hahaha, yes, TAG YOUR AUs is a thing I shout at the screen pretty frequently, alas. *grumpyface*

And NO, Homestuck fandom, "College AU" does NOT necessarily imply "Human AU"; you need to tag both of those!

[unsettledink]

And it works (or doesn't, frustratingly) in the opposite direction. I cannot begin to say how many times I've searched through a certain tag and found very little, only to find something that's perfectly that not tagged as such. TAG BENEFIT EVERYONE AUTHORS.

Said as someone who is terrible about tagging beyond the basics at AO3 at least. >.>

[krait]

Oh, yes; same!

as someone who is terrible about tagging beyond the basics at AO3

Alas, I'm bad at it, too. I need to start keeping a list of awesome useful tags that I come across when reading, so that whenever I post something I can check it against the list.

Now I want to hit up AO3 and try to revise all my tags...

[unsettledink]

Oh man, I keep thinking about going back and making my tags a little wider, but so much effort. o.O