And on the subject of request matchability, all it really takes is some promo and keeping an eye on the requests summary as the exchange progresses. I've never been a Yuletide IPH or unmatchable despite only requesting self-nommed fandoms. OTOH I could easily make myself entirely unmatchable by only requesting fandoms nommed by other people but asking for very complicated or obscure stuff.
Re: Four IPHs left
And on the subject of request matchability, all it really takes is some promo and keeping an eye on the requests summary as the exchange progresses. I've never been a Yuletide IPH or unmatchable despite only requesting self-nommed fandoms. OTOH I could easily make myself entirely unmatchable by only requesting fandoms nommed by other people but asking for very complicated or obscure stuff.