Signups Are Open!

[elwinfortuna]

We have a truly amazing tagset and are ready to go for signups! 

Signups will last until Monday, August 14th, at 3pm (BST). 

You must make a minimum of 3 requests and 4 offers, with a maximum of 10 requests or offers. 

You are able to request and/or offer fandoms multiple times, as long as you request different characters or character groups. (With a tagset containing over 330 Silmarillion tags alone, this shouldn't be hard!) 

You have to request/offer at least one character or character group, and up to 20, per request/offer. 

Remember, relationships are worldbuilding tags. They are not required and will not be matched on, they are just extra information for things you would like to see in the stories/art you receive. 

Requests are visible immediately. 

Have fun! 

Comments

[zdenka]

That is an amazing tagset!

Group: Elmir & Ermon & Nuin (Silm) has somehow migrated into The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien. (And now I need to look up who they are . . .)

Edit: And so has Huan.

[elwinfortuna]

Bad dog, Huan!

I've fixed them, I think, I hope! :D

[doranwen]

The FAQ does not specify whether matching is AND or OR. My experience has been that nearly all exchanges (except for Yuletide) do OR matching, so I would assume that, but since one can request more than one fandom, just with different characters, I wasn't sure. It makes a difference when it comes to requesting two individual characters vs. requesting a group of them paired in a specific way, so I wanted to check.

Also, does "different characters or different character groups" mean all characters should be unique (none shared between requests) or can any overlap? I don't have anything in particular in mind here, but when I went to start planning my signup I found I didn't have this clear and I like to know what the parameters are before I start.

[elwinfortuna]

It's OR matching.

You can overlap characters/character groups between requests, but there's really no need to, as the minimum you can match on is one character/character group. Think of requesting the same fandom multiple times as just being able to add more than 20 characters or character groups.

Of course, over different fandoms, as long as they're nominated, you can request them as many times as you want -- if you want Elrond in both LOTR & Silmarillion, that's completely fine.

[doranwen]

*nod* With OR matching, overlap would be unnecessary. Thanks for clarifying!

[doranwen]

I'm quite sure it's too late to fix - but I noticed in the The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien tag that Círdan appears twice: as Cirdan (LOTR books), and as Círdan. Hopefully that doesn't cause issues with matching, if someone requests or offers one but not the other...

[elwinfortuna]

Good catch! Thanks for offering both, it looks like some people have requested one, other people the other one. Hopefully it won't cause any issues with matching, but it's good to be aware of in case it does.