One thing that I think would be useful for searching would be to expand the tags and the Memories section to topics rather than just found it. Which creates a bunch more work for you, I know. :-( (Though I'd be willing to help, if you'd like.)
Not every request would necessarily fit into an easily defined topic, but a lot would. And a lot of the requests are repeated frequently and/or are category/topic requests (like my voyeur request awhile back).
Just thinking back on requests I remember reading I'd like to see Tags/Memories categories for Gapfillers by Season/Ep, cancer!fic, hurt/sick!Brian, hurt/sick!Justin, amnesia!fic, post-513 (might be a little broad), married/rings, death fic, minor character death fic, mpreg, B/J with kids, anti-Mikey, BDSM, Brian/Em, Justin/Ben, AU-canon friendly, AR (B/J meet differently, are in different professions, live in a different time, reversed ages, etc.), evil Ethan, holiday fic, super-schmoop, voyeur/others' pov, 3some/4some/moresome, crossover, high school/college, epic/novel length fics... I'm sure other people could suggest more categories.
Re the recs: I know there are several authors/LJers who keep recs in their memories, though how current they are I don't know. I just happened to see darksylvia's recs at her leahclaire website in the last day or so and I know other folks have them, too. Doesn't potentiial have a huge rec list? There's a princesskirsty posting recs, too. qafhappy has big two posts of fics. These are as subjective as the other rec comms in that it's just one person's opinion, I know. and it still doesn't answer the question about where to direct people to post recs, but there could be a categoy in the Memories for Recs and folks' lists could be linked there, perhaps.
Due to time constraints and practicality, I'm not a big fan of extending the number of tags. OTOH, we might add some more categories in the memories. Although I also see the problem of having too much of a good thing. There's about thirty categories so far, so there's some room for more, but I think anything from fifty onwards will be none too helpful in the long run.
Lots of the categories you mention are already there yet though. I do like the epic/novel length, the sick!B/J (so far under h/c), anti-Mikey, evil Ethan, super-schmoop, 3some/4some/orgy, and a few others, the BIG problem with all and any of those categories is that I do not know all the fics though. And they hardly ever name all of the aspects for me to be able to tell into which categories they belong. Plus, there's a limit of five memory tags to attach to an entry in the first place.
Having said all that, would you be interested in taking care of the memories for getithere? I can tell you though that it is a lot of work lol. One thing which would make you more suited to it than me, is that you've read far more fic than I have though. So there would be fewer mistakes if you did it - never a bad thing ;D
Let me know what you think. No pressure or anything;) If you agree, all I have to do is figure out how to make you a maintainer (which will probably last a while anyway, seeing how LJ savvy I am LOL). We would have to talk about the AR category, too - I'm afraid I've been using that in a quite different sense.
*iz embarrassed* I hadn't looked at the Memories in a long time. You do have a bunch of those categories already on there. Sorry. ;\
No biggie about AU/AR. I only found out they were separate in some people's opinions when bjfic.net changed hands. I'd never heard of AR before. And I don't really use it, but I know some folks do. And I certainly won't swear (or even pretend) that my definition is correct. Generally speaking, I don't read and have zero interest in anything that is more than a veer from canon. What some folks are now referring to as "what if" fic.
If we can figure out a good way for me to help, I'd be happy to. Another thing that *might* work, because, like you, I haven't read all the fic (and won't read a lot of it), is when you ask people to edit their post with Found It, to also edit with what Memories category(ies) their fic should be in. Maybe...
Not every request would necessarily fit into an easily defined topic, but a lot would. And a lot of the requests are repeated frequently and/or are category/topic requests (like my voyeur request awhile back).
Just thinking back on requests I remember reading I'd like to see Tags/Memories categories for Gapfillers by Season/Ep, cancer!fic, hurt/sick!Brian, hurt/sick!Justin, amnesia!fic, post-513 (might be a little broad), married/rings, death fic, minor character death fic, mpreg, B/J with kids, anti-Mikey, BDSM, Brian/Em, Justin/Ben, AU-canon friendly, AR (B/J meet differently, are in different professions, live in a different time, reversed ages, etc.), evil Ethan, holiday fic, super-schmoop, voyeur/others' pov, 3some/4some/moresome, crossover, high school/college, epic/novel length fics... I'm sure other people could suggest more categories.
Re the recs: I know there are several authors/LJers who keep recs in their memories, though how current they are I don't know. I just happened to see darksylvia's recs at her leahclaire website in the last day or so and I know other folks have them, too. Doesn't potentiial have a huge rec list? There's a princesskirsty posting recs, too. qafhappy has big two posts of fics. These are as subjective as the other rec comms in that it's just one person's opinion, I know. and it still doesn't answer the question about where to direct people to post recs, but there could be a categoy in the Memories for Recs and folks' lists could be linked there, perhaps.
/ramble :)
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Lots of the categories you mention are already there yet though. I do like the epic/novel length, the sick!B/J (so far under h/c), anti-Mikey, evil Ethan, super-schmoop, 3some/4some/orgy, and a few others, the BIG problem with all and any of those categories is that I do not know all the fics though. And they hardly ever name all of the aspects for me to be able to tell into which categories they belong. Plus, there's a limit of five memory tags to attach to an entry in the first place.
Having said all that, would you be interested in taking care of the memories for getithere? I can tell you though that it is a lot of work lol. One thing which would make you more suited to it than me, is that you've read far more fic than I have though. So there would be fewer mistakes if you did it - never a bad thing ;D
Let me know what you think. No pressure or anything;) If you agree, all I have to do is figure out how to make you a maintainer (which will probably last a while anyway, seeing how LJ savvy I am LOL). We would have to talk about the AR category, too - I'm afraid I've been using that in a quite different sense.
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No biggie about AU/AR. I only found out they were separate in some people's opinions when bjfic.net changed hands. I'd never heard of AR before. And I don't really use it, but I know some folks do. And I certainly won't swear (or even pretend) that my definition is correct. Generally speaking, I don't read and have zero interest in anything that is more than a veer from canon. What some folks are now referring to as "what if" fic.
If we can figure out a good way for me to help, I'd be happy to. Another thing that *might* work, because, like you, I haven't read all the fic (and won't read a lot of it), is when you ask people to edit their post with Found It, to also edit with what Memories category(ies) their fic should be in. Maybe...
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