(Anonymous) 2020-01-02 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
And, again, those exchanges not collapsing is a testament to PHers

That it is. Make Aquatics go away, and we'll still have lingering pinch hits, just like we did before they started doing exchanges, just like we've had while they've been doing exchanges. They're a feature, not a bug, of the way exchanges are set up, and oversaturation drives the number up. If you want fewer pinch hits, you need to make changes to the rules most multifandom exchanges currently use. All the flash exchanges popping up might be a sign the current system is getting obsolete.

(Anonymous) 2020-01-02 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
How many different ways to do you need to be told it’s the chronic IPH and the content and their behavior?

(Anonymous) 2020-01-02 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
+1 It's not about the mere fact of being a pinch hit, that happens to all of us. Insofar as the PHs come into it, it's about using the exchange system as a commission-slash-hostage system for content they're very aware that no one else is interested in, but more broadly it's about their interpersonal behavior, which lies on a spectrum from "creepy" to "screaming pro-Nazi meltdown."

(Anonymous) 2020-01-02 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought this subthread was about pinch hits, which are a concrete thing that can be affected by rule changes. Your solution is to do nothing to fix that problem, if it is a problem, and hope banning aquatics from exchanges changes their interpersonal behavior?

(Anonymous) 2020-01-02 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes?