hahha, I'm glad to have the problem-pondering company, at least! It's surprising to me that AO3 collects + displays all this data in your history but not, as far as I can tell, any way to access or look at it systematically -- but volunteer org, etc.

Re your parenthetical: how much does that act as a selection mechanism vs. a reflection one?

And re: methodology, thank you! We'll see how well I manage to implement it in the final product (coming...sometime)