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Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

And you can control your actions (how much you write, the effort you put in to please the recip) and now how others act (if your recip will like it, be gracious if they don’t, etc). There’s no way to get recips to act well like there is for authors, since commenting isn’t even mandated. The trade off is that you can pretty much write anything and be an asshole as an author, and the mods will stand by you.

If you want a recip that obviously cares about authors and will write you feedback with as much consideration that I’m guessing you put into their stories, the top tier good commenter recips are known and right there. Treat them, game to match with them, etc. Again, you are in charge of your Yuletide experience. Recips can’t use the same type of agency to game themselves a good author. If bad recips bother you, get a good recip.

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

If you want a recip that obviously cares about authors and will write you feedback with as much consideration that I’m guessing you put into their stories, the top tier good commenter recips are known and right there. Treat them, game to match with them, etc. Again, you are in charge of your Yuletide experience. Recips can’t use the same type of agency to game themselves a good author. If bad recips bother you, get a good recip.

+100

I'm mostly in exchanges for the writing. I love getting good gifts, but a meh gift won't ruin my exchange the way a non-commentor/meh comment will. But that's why if I'm assigned to someone who, based on their history, is not a good commentor, I make sure to make time to write at least one treat for someone who is, so that I'm guaranteed some of the good feedback warm fuzzies for that exchange.

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

Also like, write treats or pinch hit people who give good feedback.

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

This can save a Yuletide experience every time.

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

the top tier good commenter recips are known and right there. Treat them, game to match with them, etc.

Yup!

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

If you want a recip that obviously cares about authors and will write you feedback with as much consideration that I’m guessing you put into their stories, the top tier good commenter recips are known and right there. Treat them, game to match with them, etc.

Yup. And worth pointing out that gaming towards a good commenter is hella easy in every other multifandom exchange that's not Yuletide because requests are visible during sign ups.

I meanwhile was trying to get assigned to the ultra-rare request of my dreams this Yuletide and got a recip whose comment rep is legendary instead but who was requesting a different fandom that I was less enthusiastic about writing. ::sadface::

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

DC

But gaming towards good commenters only works if you share fandoms in common. With Yuletide, you might not know or be able to access their rare fandoms.

Re: Retiring from Yuletide?

[(Anonymous)]

There’s enough good eggs in all corners of fandom (books, anime, f/f, xeno, etc) that you should have someone that likes the basic levels of things you do. If you’re really into writing good prompts/having a happy recip, it isn’t hard to get into their f/f live action cdrama as opposed to your fav f/f live action kdrama.

If you’re only willing to write the fandoms you came into Yuletide feeling passionate about and won’t get into new things, then you need to compromise. Your inflexibility is a choice, and one of the side effects of that may mean you will get a recip that doesn’t communicate the way you want or who doesn’t like the fandom(/your fic) as much as you do.