Your title and your summary are the only chance you have to grab a reader. That reader is browsing through an archive of thousands and thousands of stories that they could be reading that aren't yours. you have to sell your story, and sell it well, in three lines.
Make it look nice. Use proper capitalization and punctuation.
Don't waste space with "This is my first story so please be nice" or "I'm terrible at summaries" or "Better than it sounds." Use that space to instead add more the the summary.
Don't say "No flames" because that's exactly what draws flamers in (like moths to a...oh, crap.)
There is no need to list off the pairings in your story unless it focuses on one specific pairing (and even in that case, when you submit the story there's a place where you can choose the main characters. That is where your pairing would go.) "BxS SxB TxT MxR FxH LxN/O RxOC" is a waste of space and completely redundant - "canon pairings" is sufficient if you aren't focused on a single couple.
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