The problem with the archives is that many times you cannot pair up the couples. For example: some have a harry/draco but do not have a harry/scorpius. So a story that might contain: ginny/scorpius, harry/draco, harry/scorpius, does not come across that way. You get ginny, harry/draco, scorpius. It's kind of messy. I've had to write quite a few archives and ask them to add in nextgen characters two years after HPDH came out.
For the Hex Files, I can see asking them to remove m/m or the like if it's required. However, I can see THF leaving their het warning (contains) on their site. It is a slash site and people are not expecting het in the stories posted there. I don't want to say that folks are bad or are heterophobic for not wanting to read het but just that they aren't expecting it. The same for The Silver Snitch. Most sites, though, are multi-pairing, and have both het and slash. Updating their software for this feature of being able to create your own pairings is not likely.
I have one story that has a lot of het and slash in it and I keep both of them listed. I still get comments, mainly from the slash readers. LOL I do agree that I don't like them listed as Warnings, but more as "Contains".
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For the Hex Files, I can see asking them to remove m/m or the like if it's required. However, I can see THF leaving their het warning (contains) on their site. It is a slash site and people are not expecting het in the stories posted there. I don't want to say that folks are bad or are heterophobic for not wanting to read het but just that they aren't expecting it. The same for The Silver Snitch. Most sites, though, are multi-pairing, and have both het and slash. Updating their software for this feature of being able to create your own pairings is not likely.
I have one story that has a lot of het and slash in it and I keep both of them listed. I still get comments, mainly from the slash readers. LOL I do agree that I don't like them listed as Warnings, but more as "Contains".