Nominations open!

[chocolateboxmod]

 It's a bit early, but I figured "why not?"

You can find the tag set here! Nominations close at 11:59pm EST on December 29.

In terms of nominations:

• just about any fandom is eligible;
• Please remember that "Character A/Character B" is shipfic while "Character A & Character B" is genfic
• There is no limit on the number of characters that can be in a combination other than the AO3 character limit;
• Crossovers must be nominated in "Crossover Fandom", which is already nominated. Crossovers that are not nominated in this fandom will be deleted.
• Original Works are okay and I have nominated that fandom for you already;
• You will be required to offer two tags per fandom on signups (unless only one relationship tag is nominated), so please keep that in mind when nominating.

Please watch this comm for updates about clarifications, merging of fandoms, and my getting increasingly drunk as we head towards Christmas! DRUNK MOD BEST MOD.

Comments

[chocolateboxmod]

Whoops, sorry! I thought I had responded to this.

I'm requiring participants to offer two tags so that across the exchange as a whole there's an increased chance that requests for tags that are less popular, as it were, are covered and thus reducing the number of people who have no recipient to gift to, or no person gifting to them. I appreciate that this is less than ideal if you only can write one thing in the tagset! This is why I reminded people this time around to make it unambiguous that you would be required to offer two things and participants could choose to nominate accordingly. That's also why the word count is so low for this exchange!

[(Anonymous)]

No worries, the holidays are busy. :)

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?

[(Anonymous)]

I agree. I didn't notice that rule but it makes me hesitant to sign up. If I do, I'll just offer my OTP and an & ship that's in the tagset that doesn't turn me off as a writer (or just the & version of my OTP). But the recip doesn't deserve receiving 300 halfhearted words of the & ship because I lucked out of writing what I was really into writing. The exchange interested me because (at least it seemed to me) it'd be an exchange where people were matched on what they really wanted, genfic or shipfic. But apparently the exchange doesn't have that quality and so I'm hesitant to sign up.

[(Anonymous)]

participants could choose to nominate accordingly

That doesn't really work, though. If my fandom right now only has A/B nominated, my ship, that's great for me and there's no reason for me to nominate a second ship like A&B. However, I have no way of knowing what other people may still nominate. Someone might well nominate my NOTP B/C an hour before nominations close and I wouldn't know. Then the two nominated ships for that fandom would be A/B and B/C and I couldn't offer the fandom anymore. Someone whose only match might have been me writing A/B for them would not have a possible writer anymore, because I couldn't offer A/B without also having to offer B/C.

TLDR: Making it harder for people to offer the pairings they want to write makes matching harder, not easier.