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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

Because people give prompts I might not have thought of otherwise, mostly. I treat challenges exactly like what they are - events that *challenge* me to write something fun/difficult to pull off/interesting/(...). I never said I don't like having an audience. It's just that I don't review people's feedback credentials in order to determine whether I want to write for their prompt.

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The rest of the people reading the collection is also part of the audience, though, and some of my fandoms get way more eyeballs at Yuletide than they would any other time of the year.

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.

NC

It doesn't even have to be that, tbh, there's no reason for me to check commenting history because a good commenter cannot make me more inspired for a treat, it's prompt-based only.

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.

THIS. SO MUCH.

Is it really that hard to understand that others might not be interested in writing a gift for someone who doesn't bother to acknowledge it?

I mean, I'm like you with treats. When I get inspired, I write it, and I don't bother to check their commenting history unless there are several people with the same request and similar prompts and I can take my pick whom to gift the treat to. I once wrote a fic for my own prompt (not in Yuletide), so yeah, recip comments are secondary to me.

But that doesn't mean that I fail to understand why other people might feel differently.

But there are lots of stories I want to write in lots of fandoms, I gotta narrow it down somehow, so why not also take into account what kind of response I'm likely to get from a recipient?

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.

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