YMMV / Archive of Our Own

• Broken Base: Leaving negative tags, notes, and reviews in the bookmarks of a fic. One side claims that since it's being written in the author's spare time for free, they should not be subject to criticism or negativity unless they ask for it, especially since it's not removable like comments unless it violates the site's rules, and anybody who wants to be negative should make their bookmark private. The other side claims that that the bookmarks are mostly for the readers instead of the author, since it serves as another way to tag a work if the author refuses or disagrees with a certain tag (and you have to go out of your way to search up bookmark tags anyways), and no fic is immune from criticism. Some even go as far to say that anybody who says otherwise is doing the equivalent of Don't Like? Don't Read! as a way to silence criticism. Whenever the subject pops up, it can get pretty... disagreeable, to say the least.

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