Wrangle Tangle

ao3tagoftheday[Image Description: Tag reading “don’t be mean to the tag wranglers”]

The AO3 Tag of the Day is: Seriously though

#we love you tag wranglers!

Aw, this is so sweet! Thank you! <3

Being kind to tag wranglers in one’s tagging is a little different than most people might expect on first glance. Here’s a list of things that are hard or easy to wrangle, and here’s an explanation of why sarcasm or irony in tags doesn’t work out well (please save it for your summary or notes). You can also be a pro at tagging OCs, remember to be unambiguous (in fandoms and in character names, regardless of category), and separate your RPF from your FPF and your platonic ships from your romantic/sexual/pining ships. All of these things are kindnesses we really appreciate, often even pointing them out to each other with hearteyes.

We’re wrangling around 200K tags a month right now - we need all the kindness we can get! (And so do the coders!)