Time to re-format all my titles! I tried to read some fic this morning, and then I realized I can't until I have this formatting thing nailed down. Which means I probably won't be able to read fic for another week. Dammit.
ETA: Again, dammit. In the last option of the first question, assume that "by cherryice" appears right before "(fic: Heroes
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But that is just me.
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I am thinking about getting rid of ratings. I don't know. I don't care about them, but it's not hard to add them, and I like having the information in case... I don't know, in case I need it later?
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Really, really, sorry. Didn't mean to yell.
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Imagine you're browsing in a bookstore or a library; walking along a shelf. What catches your eye first (other than color, which del can't do - yet) is the TITLE and AUTHOR. These are what peaks interest first.
Fandom, genre, pairing, rating, text size: put them all below in the notes and tags.
I only put fandom in the top when the title isn't unique, and can refer to different stories. For example, "Ties That Bond" by xparrot (xmagicalx) is a Smallville fanfic, and "The Ties That Bond" by Fran Hartman and Jessa Lynch, is an sg1 fanfic.
Really, try this. I can almost guarantee that you're browsing will go faster. If you're in the mood for a specific pairing or story length, use your tag filters, and let your eyes catch onto TITLES or AUTHORS, which will lead you to what to read.
seriously.
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1. Can your feeder use color? Fic is pink and meta is blue, vid is orange and news is boring brown.
2. I think I once came across a reader that could shorten/modify link names. The programming went like "start at "special symbol" end at "special symbol." With this, you could just hide the stuff you don't want to see for yourself. - This option may not be for real, however.
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So, hi. :D
I like your point about putting the information people care about most right up front. That is solid architecture. I guess I just don't know what it is people care about most. Hell, I don't even know what information *I* care about most, because it changes based on fandom. Sometimes my list looks like this: author, rating, kinks, wordcount, title, fandom, pairing, genre. Sometimes it looks like this: fandom, genre, pairing, wordcount, author, title, rating, kinks. So. Yeah. I don't know. I don't know! This is SO HARD.
An X/Y fic and a X fic that happens to have X/Y in it will be tagged the same, but one will have X in the title and the other will say X/Y. Which makes some people go crazy reading my tags, I'm sure.Interesting. I'm terribly inconsistent about this. If a story is largely gen with a side ( ... )
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Also, I have caught myself feeling cheated in the past when I am reading a fic that is marked as being shippy and there isn't any porn. If it were marked as shippy AND rated as G, then I would have either not read it or not felt cheated after the fact.
So... maybe I do care about rating!
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Exactly that! When reading HP fic I tend to not bother if there isn't porn, unless something is highly recced, but bandom I pretty much read everything regardless of rating because there is so much less fic to choose from, but I still want to know going in if I should expect a smoopy pg ending or a nice hot nc17 ending :) Plus, if I happen to come across an incest pairing by a faved author, I'd like to know if it's under an R rating and safe for my sensibilities :)
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