Crouching Coalie Hidden Wanker

[heavensqueen]

Yeah, I know, I have one job here, and I fail at it

Assignments out by Sunday Oct 15
Default deadline Monday Dec 11
Assignment deadline Monday Dec 18

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Comments

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

The absolute worst unreadable dreck my fandom's ever produced is sitting there at 20k kudos because it managed to get traction right when week the show started airing, so yeah, I agree that kudos are not representative of quality. Even if rec lists are kinda dead, I still rely more on recs and word of mouth than kudos/bookmarks/any ao3 stat to find good stuff to read.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

ao3 stats were the worst thing to happen to my middle-size fandom. With recs dead new writers can't get traction and the same fics at the top get attention from people sorting by kudos/comments.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

NA

This could all be avoided if AO3 had a system similar to Deviantart that showed you the most popular within 24 hours, a week, a month etc.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

Is it possible for ao3 to ultimately have this? This would be amazing.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

>>implying that ao3 will ever code up new useful functionality

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

You can do that - search for things updated in the last week/month whatever and sort by whatever you want. It's a magic thing called "search".

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

You can filter by update date? I know you can sort by most recently updated, but I didn't realize it was possible to filter "last week only" or "older than new development which jossed something" and sort by popularity within that group.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

Here's ao3's response when I asked this question:

To do this:
1) Access the "Work Search" form: http://archiveofourown.org/works/search.
2) Type the desired time period in the “Date” field. For example, "< 1 week ago” would yield results from October 9 to October 16, 2017, if that was the date of the search. (Note that the "ago" is optional.)
3) Type the fandom and/or other preferred tags in the corresponding fields. (The auto-fill can provide you with relevant options once you start typing.)
4) Optionally, you can choose a desired "Sort by" option, such as "Kudos", in order to see the works with the highest number of kudos during that time period.

You can find more information about searching by date if you select the blue question mark symbol next to "Date" on the "Work Search" page. For instance, you can search for works posted between a certain range of dates, or by a number of days, months, or years ago.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

You thought you were being so clever with this...

I would have to look up extra info to be able to phrase that search in a way that works. AO3's search isn't even that intuitive (if you can search for words or phrases in summaries I've yet found a way to do it, and that's something you'd think was a basic functionality). If I'm casually browsing on my tablet, I'm not going to bother.

Re: Ask Coal

[(Anonymous)]

*yet to find