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)]

If you're going to keep ship matching then I really hope you stress in the rules that requests for characters aren't limited to only gen. That was the major draw for me and many others. TOT always had a sweet grab bag sort of allure where you could request characters and gave a list of / and & ships you enjoyed, and you didn't know what you were getting, much in the spirit of trick or treating. While I do see the usefulness of ship matching for anyone wishing to avoid requests for their NOTP, I do worry it created the mindset that anyone who requested characters will only receive gen regardless of their prompts. I have seen a few reports from those who had all character requests with ship ODs only received gen.

[(Anonymous)]

I came here to write my own comment but instead I’d just like to co-sign this one. While I know the mod clarified that single character requesters should feel free to list all their ships, the number of people who mentioned that they decided who to treat based on ship-based searches makes me feel it didn’t and won’t work out this way.

[(Anonymous)]

Receiving gen was always an option with character matching, though. If you requested a character, you were also signing up to receive gen about them, whether or not you had ship ODs. So I think it's hard to tell whether people received gen this year because of ship matching or simply because they matched with someone who wanted to write gen, which could happen in previous years as well.

/requested characters, received ships I mentioned in my ODs