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Yuletide Weather Forecast:
 
Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

NA

I think the argument is that if you have a letter or sign up that doesn’t provide clear or any guidance then, in the case where you get a fic you dislike or you see other people getting fics they do like, you may be able to increase your odds of a fic you actively like by including those things.

The argument does not apply for those who are happy with anything or like the fics that their sign up nets them.

If you dislike the fic or want more but also believe that authors are not entitled to guidance, then you are in an equal battle of the wills with authors who dislike recips with those sign ups and do not believe they are entitled to gifts that (insert definition of the kinds of fic they make for sign ups they like).

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

I think the argument is that if you have a letter or sign up that doesn’t provide clear or any guidance then, in the case where you get a fic you dislike or you see other people getting fics they do like, you may be able to increase your odds of a fic you actively like by including those things.

Well, sure. That doesn't mean your writer gets to be mad at you for not doing it. "This could improve your exchange experience" =/= "This is required and people are justified in being pissed off if you don't." All this is predicated on the idea that the people with blank signups are unhappy with the gifts they receive, and AFAIK there's no clear evidence that that's the case?

Re: Vents and struggles

[(Anonymous)]

+1