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Fan fiction writers are better than tech at organizing information online
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- Authors
- Gretchen McCulloch, Noam Cohen, Antonio García Martínez, Collier Meyerson, Renee DiResta, Joi Ito
- Word count
- 1909 words
Maciej Ceglowski did a great talk about this topic way back in 2013, highly recommended reading: Fan is A Tool-Using Animal
Wait, that referenced Tumblr banning porn though, but it also referenced Kindle Worlds, which is no longer a thing. Was there multiple porn sweeps?
Yes. These would have been the relevant changes in 2013, which made it harder to find porn through search/tags/etc.: https://www.dailydot.com/irl/tumblr-nsfw-content-tags-search/
This deep-dive into AO3's tagging system is pretty interesting. The idea of using "tag wranglers" to pair up synonymous tags so you can still find what you're looking for is pretty novel.