Once Upon a Fic Exchange

(Hope it's okay to have feedback from someone who didn't have a chance to participate this year!)

So, while I can say there have absolutely been times I looked at the tagset and wondered less at an approval and more at a nomination, I think that in the way it's all but impossible to scientifically define a bird without either leaving out or including species most people do not think of as birds, it's all but impossible to find a consistent set of standards that's going to include everybody's definition of a fairy tale, because a fairy tale is what a fairy tale does, you know?

I think, of all your options, the second makes the most sense to me. Having a public evidence post takes some of the burden off you in making decisions that might feel arbitrary to you, because you'll have context from the nominator (even if it adds burden in adding extra things), and it means that if you end up rejecting something, the nominator will know for sure you had to give it a fair consideration.