Creator Reveals!

[pumpkinkingmod]

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.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

FYI, that's not actually possible to do with AO3 exchange matching when you're also trying to match on medium (art or fic.) You have to either choose the Character field (thus requiring ships be nominated as something like Group: Character A/Character B) or the Relationship field (this requiring characters be nominated as something like Character A & None) for all characters and ships, and then use the spare slot for art/fic. Most exchanges pick the relationship field for characters/ships, because relationship tags tend to be longer in general and AO3 has a hard 100-character limit on all tags, so having to add "group" creates more problems.

[desertvixen]

However it worked this year on the tech side seemed good. I apologize, I've done several signups since then and they all sort of flow together.

I didn't mind the relationship matching but I also deliberately did not nominate or offer any non-gen relationships because I do like the character-based option.