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[the_rck]

I've signed up for darkestnightex. Sign ups run for a couple of more hours tonight.

Only one of my requests has an offer that isn't from me, so I guess I know what I'm likely to get. I tailored my offers so that I was only offering matches to things I know that I can write and will be likely to enjoy writing. I offered seven fandoms, at least two with multiple possible matches, that way. I'm debating adding more offers, either more things that I know people are asking for or fandoms that I love that no one has asked for so far but that, maybe, they might.

I wish it were easier to sort the requests summary pages. I also wish that it was possible to click on a fandom in the sign-up summary and see the requests for that fandom. It would make looking at things with few offers much easier because I could take a look to see if there's any chance I could write any of the requests without having to search through the requests summary pages.

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[the_rck]

With small exchanges, I try to keep an eye on the requests and copy and paste the ones I might be able to write into a separate document. It only works when there are a few sign ups a day though; I wouldn't want to do it for, say, Yuletide.

For Darkest Night, I found it useful to save things off because there were a lot of requests in fandoms I could write that were asking for pairings or freeforms that I really couldn't. I wanted to be sure I wasn't going to match on those because I'd end up writing something that wasn't what the recipient actually wanted. I also wanted to be sure that I was offering the right freeforms for the requests I could write because a small exchange with that sort of complicated matching has to be hard on the mods.