today’s pet peeve is hyper excessive tagging on Ao3.
i am looking for specific pairing - let’s call it X/Y. i put that in and say “alright Ao3, you hot dog of a website, show me all the X/Y you got, sorted by kudo count” on the assumption that if a lot of people like it, it’s probably decently written.
and yes, i certainly get my X/Y. and i also get a metric shit ton of X/Y/Z and X/Y/ABCDE too because people have tagged EVERY SINGLE POSSIBLE COMBINATION of their X/Y/KitchenSink on their fic, so much so that the top half of their tag labels looks like they’re making alphabet soup.
annoying. if i wanted X/Y/KitchenSink, people, i would SEARCH for it. i have to carefully proofread the first two lines of the tags to see what orgy i’m getting myself into if I misclick.