pumpkinkingmod ([personal profile] pumpkinkingmod) wrote in [community profile] trickortreatex2021-11-07 04:55 pm

Creator Reveals!

Creators have been revealed! Thank you everyone for a great round, you all did amazing work.

Community Challenge Results
At last count, the community treated 234 people—85% of participants. Congratulations! The prize badges for Tiers 1 and 2 can be found at this post.

Thank you again to the anonymous artist for the custom badges, and thank you to shadowsapiens for running the treating spreadsheet.

2021 Feedback
I would love to get feedback on how the exchange went for participants this year, including:

- In general, is there anything that could be better clarified in the FAQ for next year?
- How was your experience with the community challenge?
- Did the addition of relationship matching negatively or positively impact your matchability, finding people to treat, etc?

Note: I won't be replying to every comment here but will get to questions as I can. If you'd prefer to give feedback privately, my email is halloweenmod@gmx.com.

I'll confirm whether TOT 2022 will include the option of relationship matching by the end of this month, so everyone has time to plan their 2022 exchange calendars.
shadowsapiens: (trick or treat chuuya)

[personal profile] shadowsapiens 2021-11-08 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'm strongly in favor of keeping relationship matching as an option for next year! I requested both characters and relationships, and I appreciated not having to drop the characters I only want in a specific ship. I've been in a lot of danmei fandoms recently, where I get very OTP-focused ;)

On offers, this might have been the most matchable I've ever been in Trick or Treat. I was able to offer some fandoms that I'd previously had to drop due to interest mismatches that were impossible to avoid with character-only matching.

Trick or Treat was my first ever exchange, and I've been participating since 2015. I have a great time every year, and previously didn't have a strong opinion on character vs. mixed matching. But it was fantastic for me this year, and I would like to have it again for future TOTs :)

edit: because I was curious and had the CSV, I ran some numbers on requests. I don't believe mixed matching led to relationships taking over the exchange -- most people wanted a mix.

Participants requesting just relationships: 25 (9%)
Participants requesting just characters: 41 (15%)
Participants requesting a mix of both: 209 (76%)

edit 2: I was also curious about concerns that mixed matching would make people think requesting characters was inherently a gen request. Looking at the gifts received by the 41 people who requested only characters, I think the numbers may be reassuring for that concern. Of those 41 people:

8 (20%) received just ship gift(s).
14 (34%) received just gen gift(s).
18 (44%) received a mix of both gen and ship gifts.
Edited 2021-11-09 18:29 (UTC)