Anonymous Sweets Lover · 8mo
Hi! I wanted to ask about otp:true. As far as I understand, this means it removes fics from search results that include other relationship tags (romantic or platonic).
However, I feel this isn't exactly accurate. With Cross Guild, ships within are also tagged, say Buggy/Croc and Buggy/Mihawk in addition to Buggy/Croc/Mihawk. Or fics about a particular ship but include platonic tags, such as Daz Bones & Crocodile.
If a pairing is truly rare, otp:true should not matter. Why have you decided to use it?
Hi anon, we needed to make a criteria for what counts as a rare pair, so AO3 was chosen since it's easier to filter for ships on there compared to social media. We decided to use op:true to keep only the stories that focus on the relationship itself, since otherwise, the search includes all stories in which the ship is a background relationship or is not the focus of the story. Hope this answers your question! 🍬✨
