Thank you for stepping in to run this exchange! It's become one of the highlights of my Hallowe'en these last few years. :)
I'm glad you decided to do away with the eternal tagset - it always seemed a bit unwieldy to me, and made it hard to gauge what the "current" nominations were, if that makes sense. Increasing the nomination slots to 10 seems like a good compromise, though, so thank you for that.
I have no strong opinion either way about the addition of ship-matching (the draw of this exchange for me has always been in the Trick/Treat option), but given the amount of pushback you've received, I agree it would probably have been better to give some advance notice of your intention, so that the community could offer their feedback then. There has, too, been some recent conflict on the exchange circuit (I'm thinking particularly of the most recent round of Multifandom Drabble), and I think it's made a lot of people quite gun-shy of mods making snap decisions like this.
If you're committed to the changes for this round at least, might I suggest opening the floor after it's over, to see whether the community want them to carry over into future rounds? I would also suggest that in future, broaching such major changes with participants beforehand also seems like the best idea.
With all that said, thank you for taking the time to run this exchange, and I'm looking forward to taking part again!
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I'm glad you decided to do away with the eternal tagset - it always seemed a bit unwieldy to me, and made it hard to gauge what the "current" nominations were, if that makes sense. Increasing the nomination slots to 10 seems like a good compromise, though, so thank you for that.
I have no strong opinion either way about the addition of ship-matching (the draw of this exchange for me has always been in the Trick/Treat option), but given the amount of pushback you've received, I agree it would probably have been better to give some advance notice of your intention, so that the community could offer their feedback then. There has, too, been some recent conflict on the exchange circuit (I'm thinking particularly of the most recent round of Multifandom Drabble), and I think it's made a lot of people quite gun-shy of mods making snap decisions like this.
If you're committed to the changes for this round at least, might I suggest opening the floor after it's over, to see whether the community want them to carry over into future rounds? I would also suggest that in future, broaching such major changes with participants beforehand also seems like the best idea.
With all that said, thank you for taking the time to run this exchange, and I'm looking forward to taking part again!