Subject: Some other tips I've found useful
Author:
Posted on: 2018-05-01 00:53:00 UTC
I mostly look for more... racy fic than your average Sue, but I still look for other things on occasion.
What I usually do on fanfiction.net is exclude works under 1000 words, sometimes even works under 5000. Most of the things on the Pit are oneshots or just getting started, so it's hard to tell if they're going to be bad enough or long enough to be entertaining.
On AO3, I've found it useful to sort fics by how many hits they have. Oddly enough, the things with the most hits can sometimes be the worst fics around. AO3 makes it much easier to find badfic (or goodfic, for that matter) because of their tagging system; once you find a tag that has a lot of terrible things written for it, you can just search for that tag later.
Beyond that, there's a lot of reading summaries and hitting that "Next" button at the bottom of the page.