Offseason #1

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Use this post for any exchanges running from January onwards into the first quarter of the year. Try to keep final Yuletide thoughts in the last coal post of 2019 for ease of conversation.

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[(Anonymous)]

That reminds me of the exchange participant who copied my DNWs word by word. I checked out their letter because they wrote for me and I had never encountered their username before, so I wanted to know who they were. They were clearly a sock, and for all intends and purposes, they looked like they were MY sock, but they 100% weren't. That was super weird. (But I loved the gift they wrote for me, so I didn't really care.)

[(Anonymous)]

Someone copied my uniquely worded likes and specific prompts in a fandom of few where it was really obvious that they had.

It annoyed me, because typing up letters takes time and swiping mine isn’t exactly a good way to make me feel like writing for you. If you can’t even be bothered to come up with your own words for why you like the fandom, why should I believe you actually care about it? Even more than that though...I have no interest in writing my own prompts? If I did I would have written them already.

So I avoided that person and have them on my never treat list, lol.

[(Anonymous)]

Oof, I think I would have been tempted to contact them and ask them to change the wording on the prompts.

[(Anonymous)]

It wasn’t worth the potential wank for me. I really just considered them as I would my own sock (never talked to them, aren’t in the market to treat them, make sure I don’t offer the fandom so I can’t match to them) and called it a day. I guess they either don’t care about making people feel eh at their actions or they’re someone who thinks like “I would love if someone copied my letter because then I know we like the same things and I can treat them endlessly!” so they don’t see their actions as potentially discouraging to the very person they consider most likely to appreciate it. It could also be that they see that I get a lot of treats that are amazing and so they grabbed my letter hoping it would get the similar results.