Comment on Fandom nonfiction: seeking feedback

  1. mklutz Wed 13 Mar 2013 08:14PM UTC

    I really wish nonfiction were kept off the archive, or in a separate place all-together. No method of implementation can make me happy when I get someone's meta under a tag I've subscribed to, instead of fic.

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    1. sorrynotsorry Wed 13 Mar 2013 11:20PM UTC

      +1. I feel like the a meta site would be aligned with the OTW, but not really AO3. I don't think the format of the site is accommodating to that discussion format and would rather skip the endless complaining about how AO3 wasn't designed with meta in mind.

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      1. Nineveh_uk (Guest) Thu 14 Mar 2013 06:23PM UTC

        I like the ideal of a linked/paralle/connected meta site that left AO3 for fic.

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    3. duckwhatduck Thu 14 Mar 2013 02:16AM UTC

      Alternatively, if this is feasible, a working filter for work types, so when you subscribe to a tag you get ticky boxes to choose whether you want to see everything or ignore some work types.

      I feel like decent filtering (both inclusive and exclusive) is the only way to make it so that people can both a. access all the content they want and b. not have to see things they don't want.

      You don't want to see (or, presumably, post) meta. Other people do. Decent filters would be the only way I can see to fulfil *everyone's* needs and do the best possible job of ensuring *everyone's* happiness.

      Robust filters are going to be a significant coding burden, but a useful one, and not only for the non-fiction issue. And producing "a separate place altogether" would presumably be even more work, as well as making things difficult for people who do want to see everything all together and are as happy with an essay on a fannish theme as with a fic exploring that theme.
      And hosting it all on AO3, while also allowing people who aren't interested to filter out non-fiction, would also allow for useful things that separate hosting would allow, e.g. letting authors link fiction and non-fiction in a series if the non-fiction was exegesis or additional worldbuilding (which, also, wouldn't necessarily stand alone on a separate site), or the fiction was demonstrating the same themes discussed in the non-fiction.

      tl;dr maybe no method of implementation will make you happy to get meta under tags you're subscribed to, but there should be potential methods of implementation that mean that you don't get it under your subscribed tags if you choose not to, even if it exists on the Archive.

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    4. adrift Thu 14 Mar 2013 08:08PM UTC

      orange pansies

      +1

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