Tags and Spoilers
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ao3someSo I have noticed some fans saying that they prefer to ignore or not read the tags on AO3 because they might find them spoilery. As someone who doesn't consider many things spoilers I found this intriguing. I would like to pose a few questions to everyone:
1) Do you typically read tags? How often do you search by tag?
2) What kinds of tags do you find spoilery and why?
3) What do you want to know about the content of a story before you read? Why?
4) What do you not want to know about the content of a story before you read? Why?
5) Would whether you consider any tags to be spoilery or not be affected if the author wrote the content indicated by the tags creatively or in an atypical way?
1) Do you typically read tags? How often do you search by tag?
2) What kinds of tags do you find spoilery and why?
3) What do you want to know about the content of a story before you read? Why?
4) What do you not want to know about the content of a story before you read? Why?
5) Would whether you consider any tags to be spoilery or not be affected if the author wrote the content indicated by the tags creatively or in an atypical way?
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Date: 2014-03-24 12:23 am (UTC)2) I've only felt spoilt when reading tags which indicate a character death.
3) Pairing and themes. I also like to get a sense of the authors' writing style from how they write/present the summary and tags. I'm not a fan of cutesy summaries/tags, which are often an indicator for cutsey writing.
4) Any plot twists.
You've missed a word from this question.
5) It doesn't matter to me tbh.