ygorarepairs | Rarity ruling

Quick update based on discussion happening in the Discord. A few participants were concerned about what constitutes rarity for their particular series and suggested tiers to address this. There was also some concern about using the otp: true filter, which filters out works that do not exclusively focus on a ship. The otp: true option was added to rules to address concerns coming from DM fans who noticed that there were a lot of ship tags that were overinflated by users who would tag background ships that appear for a single sentence or in the case of drabble posts where there was a singular 100 word drabble within a multichapter post with hundreds of other ships.

There were also some suggestions that the number of authors for a ship should be considered when deciding on its rarity. However, that is not the focus of this event, as a bang's goal is to increase the number of works rather than diversify the number of creators. Both mods are concerned that would lead this event into analyzing the popularity of a ship rather than its rarity, so this event will not be discounting works based on authorship alone. The focus will be on numbers when deciding rarity.

miscellanium said it nicely: "one thing for us to all keep in mind is that this isn't about the popularity of a ship but about building the library of fic/art works for that ship. so if you don't see something often that doesn't mean it counts for this event because the library might be a decent size already."

Are platonic ships allowed?
Yes! Please make sure to take non-platonic shipping into account when determining rarity since the majority of fics are tagged as non-platonic. For example, the tag "Honda Hiroto & Otogi Ryuji" has 3 fics total (as of when this was written). However, "Honda/Otogi" does not count as a rare pair because the non-platonic fics push it over the threshold (144 slash fics total; 34 when otp true is applied).

Here are the revised rulings for rarity for all series:

- dm: <30 with optional use of otp: true due to issues with tagging in the fandom
- gx: <30
- 5ds: <30
- zexal: <30
- arcv: <15
- vrains: <15
- sevens: <15
- go rush: <15
- ocg structures: <15
- ocg stories: <15
- card game lore: <15

Please let me know if you have any questions about this, or disagree with the limits decided by the community. Consider these rules set for this year if there are no additional comments from the community within 24 hours. I appreciate everyone's thoughts and feedback!