this icon is strangely appropriate

I'm reading Ernesto Laclau's "On Populist Reason" and he's deep into a discussion of Freud's "Crowd Psychology." Hence the icon. HOLY GOOD GOD I'M THIS CLOSE TO SNAPPING. I have a libidinal bond with Freud, that bond being HATE. HOLY SHIT. The hell was I thinking in developing this project? It's too late to go back now. D: Must push through to the non-Freud parts. Urgh. 10 pages.

what makes a good recs list?

One of the fannish projects I'm going to work on this summer is turning my delicious account into a browsable recs list. That means going through the +500 saved links, retagging and editing descriptions to be more user-friendly. I've started the retagging process, and work on it whenever I want to do something mind-numbing. The first two pages of creeping.jenny are fully tagged in the system I want to eventually use for all my links.

I haven't done the summary/rec part yet - that's the summer part of this project. ;)

Here's how it's going to work:

Thing (fic, vid, art, meta, scans)
Genre (AU, drama, romance, porn...)
Character
Pairing
Length (VeryShort, Short, Medium, Long, Epic)
Setting (SPNPreSeries, StarWarsPequels, StarTrekReboot)
Fandom

All tags will be bundled by kind:

All By Kind (Thing:Fic, Thing:Meta...)
Length
Genre
Marvel Comics (Character:Domino, Pairing:Steve/Tony, Setting:CivilWar...)

What other tag sets would be useful? Warnings? MPAA ratings? Personal ratings (1/4, 3/4)?

When reading the text of a rec, what do you look for? Plot details? Subject matter? Comments on style and structure? Comments on how the story/art/meta made the reccer feel?