Hmm I wonder why ao3 didn’t like that
I’m really curious what their definition of “being harassed” is though, because if someone else wrote into the tags that other people should die they could report those people to the “moderators” as well.
Yeah, I wonder why Ao3 doesn’t like this kind of thing. I mean, they let people post such vile, vile content about fictional characters. Why, oh why don’t they want their users to threaten real people? It just doesn’t make sense!
Apparently saying you’ll strangle someone is harassment. Who’d ever have guessed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Someone was asking me about something like this a while back.
Basically, AO3 will take things as harassment if they’re openly threatening and somewhat directed like this, even if they’re tags on a fic and not being sent directly to an individual target.
#i will guess this is another result of the tumblr to AO3 pipeline where people are used to thinking of tags as ‘my space to say whatever’ #and not. say. a form of metadata developed and curated by the site for the specific purpose of being metadata #note AND CURATED. someone has to read every! single! tag! you post to AO3! #a real human has to look at it with their real eyeballs! potentially one of the people you are literally POSTING A DEATH THREAT TO. #‘Don’t post death threats’ is IN NO WAY an unusual rule for a site to have! especially for one that isn’t a social media site#and is far less white noise by volume! ESPECIALLY given that one of their ways of making it less white noise by volume is by prioritizing#data in the tags! so that if someone is trying to search eg ‘MK Wukong’ whatever that is they’re now more likely to receive a fic that lists #AGAIN. A REAL DEATH THREAT. #‘oh but it’s online it’s not real it’s a joke’ please understand that anything that gets specific about how it wants to kill you #or wants you to die is a death threat. that’s how it WORKS. THREATENING SOMEONE WITH DEATH IS IN FACT A DEATH THREAT #tags are meant to be read. don’t put death threats in them.
The tag wranglers look at your tags. They looks at all the tags in their assigned fandom. Death threats are not on.
The whole glorious purpose of AO3 is that it is run by human beings who use their human eyes to read and archive the works. If you do not like shipping or whatever topics you can do this incredibly simple thing where you do not engage with them.
