The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Comments

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Allow people to prioritize their offers and requests. I.e. you have to request three fandoms, but if it's anyhow possible to match you on fandom 1, you will be matched on fandom 1, not on fandom 2 and 3.

I agree with adding gen, m/f, m/m and f/f qualifiers. Or even ship tags for bigger fandoms.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

The prioritizing offers/requests and adding ship tags for bigger fandoms sound like they'd be hell for the matching process, though. And how would they even go about determining what fandoms are big enough to get to request ships?

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

They could have an optional ship tag like they did with Trick or Treat this year. If nobody matches on that ship, whatever; if someone does, great. And I think someone further up already mentioned including a gen etc. tag.

And yeah, I imagine that the prioritising would be hard to do, but the question was what we'd like to change, not if we know how exactly that would have to work. ;)

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

NO

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Why not?

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Because knowing that you've been assigned to write the fandom someone least wants is an awful feeling.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Then don't make that information public. The mods and the system know; everyone else doesn't.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Then how are people supposed to rank their fandoms?

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

They can do that in their sign-ups, but that information only goes to the mods. The writer only gets an email with all the requests of their recipient without any mention of how they were ranked.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

I think that would be a pain. I wouldn't want to rank my fandoms. It would be so difficult to decide what I want more. I want fics in all of them.

Plus if I had to rank them there's no guarantee that the ranking would be the same by the time the archive opens. The #6 fandom could easily be up to #1 in the two months between signups and the due date.