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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
AO3 semi-recently limited stories to having some 75 tags because of one author who felt it was funny to use literally thousands of tags. (Thankfully, it didn't automatically remove anything on fics posted before the change; instead, it made the author manually remove excess ones in order to update fics.)
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I know they have 'tag wranglers' who try to keep the tags under control. I'm glad they've done something.
It's one of the reasons there are some fandoms I just won't go to, since they have a ton of characters. People were tagging characters that were just mentioned, or had no lines or purpose to a story. Hard to find the stories about the characters I was interested in when they're all listed as if they were MC's to the story.
And too many of the tags were just useless chit-chat from the author. I guess they thought it made the story look cute or something.