I have to admit that I don't really understand this logic. I'm in enough fandoms that I won't have trouble hitting the minimum number of fandoms. Forcing me to offer two pairings per fandom won't make me offer additional things I'm not really all that excited about. It will make me unoffer a large number of pairings I would love to write because I'm not going to risk being matched on a pairing I don't like and which I was forced to add. So this rule makes matching harder, because quite a few people who might have someone who can write for them will end up with no writer because the people who could write for the pairing they requested would have had to offer a different pairing someone else requested, too. And sure, the word count is low, but I'm not going to sign up for an exchange to write something I hate. Nor is it in the interest of any participant if a bunch of people end up writing 300 half-assed words for a pairing they didn't want to offer in the first place.
It just puts non-multishippers in a ridiculous position where they can't offer half their pairings unless only one pairing is nominated for that fandom. Or you have to offer the gen version instead - but if I have no guarantee to get matched on Bob/John rather than Bob & John, what's the point of doing an exchange that matches on ships as opposed to an exchange that matches me on the characters Bob and John?
Wouldn't it be easier and also more efficient to up the minimum number of fandoms people have ot offer? Rather than the number of tags per fandom?
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I have to admit that I don't really understand this logic. I'm in enough fandoms that I won't have trouble hitting the minimum number of fandoms. Forcing me to offer two pairings per fandom won't make me offer additional things I'm not really all that excited about. It will make me unoffer a large number of pairings I would love to write because I'm not going to risk being matched on a pairing I don't like and which I was forced to add. So this rule makes matching harder, because quite a few people who might have someone who can write for them will end up with no writer because the people who could write for the pairing they requested would have had to offer a different pairing someone else requested, too. And sure, the word count is low, but I'm not going to sign up for an exchange to write something I hate. Nor is it in the interest of any participant if a bunch of people end up writing 300 half-assed words for a pairing they didn't want to offer in the first place.
It just puts non-multishippers in a ridiculous position where they can't offer half their pairings unless only one pairing is nominated for that fandom. Or you have to offer the gen version instead - but if I have no guarantee to get matched on Bob/John rather than Bob & John, what's the point of doing an exchange that matches on ships as opposed to an exchange that matches me on the characters Bob and John?
Wouldn't it be easier and also more efficient to up the minimum number of fandoms people have ot offer? Rather than the number of tags per fandom?