shinykari asked:

Dude, please stop spreading misinformation and bullshit scare-mongering re: AO3’s tags. If you’re actually interested in what AO3 actually thinks, they wrote a blog about it here: archiveofourown[.]org/admin_posts/266

Yep!  I reblogged somebody’s link to that: http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/266 – and shinykari is right: the servers and networks at AO3 are not substantially impacted by tag commentary.

They also posted a second blog post on tags immediately after that one—http://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/267—where they talked about the people who wrangle the tags.  They’re the ones who have to deal with most of the tag-commentary hassle.

And I’m sorry I wasn’t clear, but I wasn’t speaking only about AO3.  It’s set up pretty well to weather this treatment, but not all websites and social media platforms are.

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