My hunch is, if a Support volunteer searched all tickets for "James Bond", they would find a good number of complaints.
It just...wasn't enough. I would bet they all got the standard "we got rid of the metatag because it was confusing" responses. Even if Bond fans complained about that on social media, the fandom wasn't big enough for the news to spread very far.
Unlike with the collective Holmes fandom, which is HUGE -- and full of people with Very Strong Opinions about Sherlock (TV) specifically.
So it wasn't until the Holmes synning happened that AO3 got enough complaints to hit the tipping point of "whoa, okay, these aren't just a picky minority of complainers, they might actually be the majority view of the fandom."
(Sidenote, I asked internally if Tag Wrangling could get an overview of "which fandom metatags people have complained about" from Support. The response is still in the "maybe, we'll see" stage. Which is part of why I figured I'd run a public survey in the meantime.)
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It just...wasn't enough. I would bet they all got the standard "we got rid of the metatag because it was confusing" responses. Even if Bond fans complained about that on social media, the fandom wasn't big enough for the news to spread very far.
Unlike with the collective Holmes fandom, which is HUGE -- and full of people with Very Strong Opinions about Sherlock (TV) specifically.
So it wasn't until the Holmes synning happened that AO3 got enough complaints to hit the tipping point of "whoa, okay, these aren't just a picky minority of complainers, they might actually be the majority view of the fandom."
(Sidenote, I asked internally if Tag Wrangling could get an overview of "which fandom metatags people have complained about" from Support. The response is still in the "maybe, we'll see" stage. Which is part of why I figured I'd run a public survey in the meantime.)