Nominations Clarifications #2

[hauntedshadow]

Thank you for your patience as tags are being approved.

Nominations close January 25, at no earlier than 10PM UTC.

 

Please don’t forget to add disambiguations to your relationships/characters. To prevent confusion over wandering tags, nothing without a disambiguation will be approved. I’m adding disambiguations to some, but it’s going slow as these nominations are not given priority due to formatting. 

 

There are no rejections, but it might seem so from your end. I had to edit some tags that were approved, and AO3 lets you do that by removing the original tag from the tagset. If your nomination was rejected and does not appear in the tagset, please let me know. If it was edited to be something you did not intend, let me know. For both cases, please link to your nomination and let me know which nomination to fix.

 

If there’s anything in the tagset that needs changing, like characters/relationships that have wandered, typos, trope categories to be added to/removed from a freeform, etc, let me know here.





Clarifications

Freeform Tags

1.

Genfic/no romance or sex --- how is this iddy?


2.
 

Freeform tags for a fandom need to be prefaced with the fandom name. Example: MCU: Staying under the ice for so long deserums Steve so he’s skinny again

Nonbinary My Unit | Byleth --- is this for Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses? Is “Fire Emblem Three Houses” ok?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Different person, but you're not getting how the exchanges work.

If your genfic tag were approved and you request your ship and that freeform tag, you're still not warranted that you'll get a gift/to write genfic, because you are required to request at least two freeform tags and your author could match to a different tag and write that one instead.

If you request any / ship (for example Tony/Pepper, or Pepper/Natasha) you're still most likely to get shipfic, or genfic about an established couple, as requesting a / ship and then a genfic tag is counter intuitive (and also against the spirit of the exchanges allowing / and & relationships). You are better off nominating only gen relationships (Tony & Pepper, or Pepper & Natasha for example), and then requesting those and any freeform tag describing your favorite genfic related scenarios (for example Hurt/Comfort - Being comforted after a nightmare, or Domestic- baking cookies).

The tag you're trying to nominate is not a genfic scenario, it is an umbrella tag that it could potentially describe the 70 percent of the current approved tags. If an author should match on it, you're likely to get disappointed since it's so vague that you could get any kind of fic at all.

I hope this explanation shades some more light on the problem.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

*hangs head in shame* I do get how the exchange works, but what I didn't get was the layout and how replies looked (and I stupidly failed to parent up). So I wasn't truly the ATRT in that comment, sorry!

But, for what it's worth, this is a great explanation! Hopefully it helps clear things up for the nominator.