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I can't remember how much of that scene/dialogue is in the film?

Anyway, the recip left no prompts or likes, and a placeholder letter on tumblr that they never bothered to update, and then they rejected a fic that is well enough written and does give some insight into the character even if it is somewhat rehashed? The NERVE. I hope I never get them in an exchange. Were they expecting the writer to be a mind reader?

Name and shame, coalie. I wanna avoid them in the future too.

It's MachineGunBallet

They kudosed.

SA

Also it looks like they haven't bothered to comment on any of their gifts in yt or earlier.

And they got two treats as well as their main gift? Kinda makes you wonder wtf when there's good commenters with good letters not getting any treats.

Fandoms?

People can have the best letters and I will never know if they request fandoms I don't know. And some people prefer writing for people without optional details.

Do people seriously decide who to treat based on whether they comment?

Why would you treat someone who won't say thanks?

More on if they give good comments, but yeah.

Yes. Personally, I'd rather not reward people who can't be bothered commenting on their gifts with treats.

Why is this such an alien concept?!

Idk, I usually treat with stories I think would be fun to write, regardless of who the recip is. YMMV, obviously.

Why write for a challenge then? Just post mid-year if you don’t need an audience

Re: Early Rejects

(Anonymous) - 2019-12-26 21:39 (UTC) - Expand

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(Anonymous) - 2019-12-26 21:49 (UTC) - Expand

Some of us are more interested in writing stories that we want to write, in fandoms we like, instead of getting adulation?

That’s a fine-looking high horse what you’ve got in the stable, saint coalie.

Re: Early Rejects

(Anonymous) - 2019-12-27 05:43 (UTC) - Expand

It's not about the adulation. I'm pretty sure I could write for most of the current Known Non-Commenters and still get comments, because I almost always get non-recip comments. Hell, a few of the best-known non-commenters like FF_D might even mean more comments, since people often make a mental note to check out and comment on their gifts.

So for me, at least, it's not about the comments. It's about not rewarding shitty behavior. Not thanking your author with at least the bare minimum, or thanking some of your authors but not others, is shitty behavior that has a very good chance of making your assigned authors, who have to write for you, feel crappy. Any sensible person doing exchanges should know this. So no, I'm not rewarding people who do that with extra treats.

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Re: Early Rejects

(Anonymous) - 2019-12-27 19:29 (UTC) - Expand

I sure do. I would never write a treat for a non commentor, and honestly even a short commentor is probably off my list unless I'm totally in love with the prompt to the point that I can't let it go (or if they wrote me a great fic in the past or something).

There are always a million things I want to write, so why not focus on the good commenters?

CYRT
This makes me appreciate people treating me more, tbh. I thought it's a "oh, nice prompt, might as well write this!" thing, and now it seems like it might be (/also/) a "this person seems nice and knows how to be grateful, I want to give them something they want even if the prompt isn't something I would have otherwise written" thing.

If there's more than one person asking for whatever I feel like writing I'll poke around and see if one's obviously better about commenting, but otherwise my treating is based 100% on "I feel like writing something for this canon/character/pairing, I wonder if anyone has any fun prompts I could roll with and make it a gift."

If I have a choice between multiple recips and I'm not !!! about either prompt.

There are dozens and dozens of threads about exactly that on FFA.

I'm not going digging to see if someone comments or not, but if someone says outright in their letter that they probably won't be commenting or if they're a name I recognize as a serial non-commenter, I'll spend my treat energy somewhere else, thanks.

I mean that's very much a 'my recip sucks so they're getting 1001 words of bland canon' fic.

So like if you want something other than bland barely over the word limit gifts maybe don't be such a shitty recipient.

It's a treat.

lol jfc

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