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wrangletangle ([personal profile] wrangletangle) wrote2013-03-20 10:30 pm

Secrets of the Wrangulator #2: Tag Subtraction (the old way)

Subtracting a tag from search results on AO3

Did you know that… you can exclude tags from your searches by entering -“Tag Name” in the “Search Within Results” box in the filters?

#this won’t work on other versions of the tag #but you can exclude several tags if you need to

ETA April 8: Some have suggested that simply ticking the fandoms, characters, relationships, etc. that you want in the filters will remove other, undesired tags. THIS IS NOT CORRECT. It will limit results to works containing the desired tags, but undesired tags can still be mixed into those results. The checkboxes are an AND search, not a NOT search.

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