Feedback Post

[littlefics]

Hi, everyone! Now that the dust has settled, we wanted to solicit your feedback on a few things. We also wanted to mention some planned changes for future rounds, as well as mention which things we do NOT plan to change (we still welcome feedback on these aspects of the exchange but are unlikely to change our minds). If you have feedback on something not mentioned in this post, that's welcome too.


Specific inquiries:

• The next round is set to run sometime between December and February. In practice, January or February is much more likely, though we'd be open to beginning nominations toward the end of December. Each round takes about a month from the beginning of nominations through author reveals. If you have a preference as to when the next round should run, please let us know! If all timings work for you, please let us know that as well! We don't promise to go with the majority opinion, but we'll do our best to choose a schedule that works for the mods and a decent percentage of participants.

• For the first round of this exchange, you could request/offer Any for characters. Since Any is defined differently between requests and offers (Any offers being for any character in the tagset and Any requests being for any character in the canon), this could be a little confusing. In order to make it less confusing, we're considering disallowing Any offers for character tags. Is this a good trade-off, or would it be better to give people a few more rounds to get used to the differences? (Please note we are not planning to change the definition of Any for requests.)

• We're considering letting in Worldbuilding as a character tag. Is this something you'd be interested in? Does your answer on this change if we keep Any offers for characters?

• Did the 48-hour anon period seem long enough? We think a week is much too long for a drabble exchange, but would be open to a 72-hour anon period instead.

Planned changes for upcoming rounds:

• We will be using moderated submissions for future rounds due to its convenience when we're checking basic things like length and completeness. Note that we do not check DNWs or other nitty-gritty stuff unless we have a reason to for that specific fic.

• We were originally planning to use the same tagset for all future rounds, but it's come to our attention that very large tagsets can become unwieldy. We are now planning to create a new tagset at the beginning of each year (every four rounds). Since we started in the fall, the current tagset will remain in place through 2022 (or for five rounds total).

Aspects of the exchange we do not plan to change:

• Character OR matching.

• The existence of the anon period.

• Requesting "Any" character means you are requesting any character in the canon (NOT the tagset).

Comments

[silveredeye]

December would work for me, or February. In January this fest would pretty much happen during Chocolate Box' writing period and I try not to have two simultaneous open assignments (even tiny ones). But December is a minority opinion, and it would not be a dealbreaker, just less convenient.

I avoided Any, so no thoughts on that.

I think Worldbuilding works better as a like than a matchable character.

Anon period was perfectly fine.

Would you consider making an official treatless/"people who have 0-1 gifts" spreadsheet in the next round? It'd be extra work for you, so perfectly understandable if not. I've just always loved those "let's try to treat everyone" challenges and I think it'd work well in a drabble exchange.