I'm glad to hear the exchange is going forward this year! It's always been of my favorites, and I've done it almost every year since it began.
However, I'm commenting to ask if you might reconsider opening the exchange up to ship noms. ToT is one of the few exchanges that matched only on characters, and IMO that lends it a whole different vibe than the many exchanges that allow both ships and characters to be nominated. It makes it easier for us multishippers who enjoy just throwing a bunch of possible ship ideas at the wall without coming up with ideas for all of them, and it's also really fun as a writer to get to choose between different ship options for a character without getting locked into one. It changes my whole signup strategy, in a fun way, and is part of the reason I've done ToT for so long. It was one of the things that made ToT unique, as opposed to just being another exchange that matches on both ships and characters, and previous mods have been really committed to keeping it that way.
I know there've been requests in the past for ToT to match on ships, but these days we have Shipoween, which does exactly that. It feels a little weird for ToT to add ships now, after Shipoween has already been established for several years and purposefully runs on the exact same schedule as ToT.
This is also the kind of change that I think is nice to broach with the community beforehand. At this point, Trick or Treat is one of the longest-running exchanges besides Yuletide, and it has a lot of people who've done it a long time and are invested. (Like me!) So it feels kind of alarming to have this announced just a few days before noms, by someone new that we don't know or have experience with. You may not be aware, but there's been some pretty big drama recently over exchange modding, and I think people are going to feel warier than usual about big new changes made by mods they don't know yet or have any experience with.
Thank you for being willing to help keep ToT going. It's a fairly active exchange and a lot of work, and it's great of you to step up and put in that time! Please reconsider this big new change, especially since you haven't run the exchange through a full cycle yet. Thanks. :)
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Date: 2021-08-30 03:12 pm (UTC)However, I'm commenting to ask if you might reconsider opening the exchange up to ship noms. ToT is one of the few exchanges that matched only on characters, and IMO that lends it a whole different vibe than the many exchanges that allow both ships and characters to be nominated. It makes it easier for us multishippers who enjoy just throwing a bunch of possible ship ideas at the wall without coming up with ideas for all of them, and it's also really fun as a writer to get to choose between different ship options for a character without getting locked into one. It changes my whole signup strategy, in a fun way, and is part of the reason I've done ToT for so long. It was one of the things that made ToT unique, as opposed to just being another exchange that matches on both ships and characters, and previous mods have been really committed to keeping it that way.
I know there've been requests in the past for ToT to match on ships, but these days we have Shipoween, which does exactly that. It feels a little weird for ToT to add ships now, after Shipoween has already been established for several years and purposefully runs on the exact same schedule as ToT.
This is also the kind of change that I think is nice to broach with the community beforehand. At this point, Trick or Treat is one of the longest-running exchanges besides Yuletide, and it has a lot of people who've done it a long time and are invested. (Like me!) So it feels kind of alarming to have this announced just a few days before noms, by someone new that we don't know or have experience with. You may not be aware, but there's been some pretty big drama recently over exchange modding, and I think people are going to feel warier than usual about big new changes made by mods they don't know yet or have any experience with.
Thank you for being willing to help keep ToT going. It's a fairly active exchange and a lot of work, and it's great of you to step up and put in that time! Please reconsider this big new change, especially since you haven't run the exchange through a full cycle yet. Thanks. :)