Would algorithm-matching (Yuletide rules) be better?

[brightknightie]

Yes, I'm afraid that many of the fkficfest matches are challenging this year. I'm truly very sorry. If any players would like a swap, I'll facilitate!

Perhaps we should switch to machine-matching, like Yuletide?

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[brightknightie]

Oh, yes, you're quite right: I'm confident that machine-made matches would be utterly wretched by that measure. :-) I should have phrased the question differently: Would players prefer a different set of expectations?

That is, would more players be happier with Yuletide-style expectations, matched only on characters, with "optional details are optional"? In that case, for example, a Dark Knightie would get me as a recipient, and would write something that I wouldn't at all enjoy reading, but the Dark Knightie would have fun writing her own take, not struggling to write mine, and isn't that the important thing...?

I don't know what to do.

I understand that we need a new sign-up form, with different, more, fewer, better questions... if we play again, I'll definitely seek more effective sign-up forms to redesign... but... how do we get people to want to write what others want to read? Rhetorical question (unless you happen to have a magic answer ~grin~).

"List up to 20 things you like" but "List no more than 3 things you avoid"...?

[sholio]

I should have phrased the question differently: Would players prefer a different set of expectations?

Ahhhh, I see! Yeah, it's hard to say. FK is a somewhat unusual fandom, I think, even in these ship-war-ish days, that it has so many factions with such radically different takes on the characters.

I do feel as if most people at least TRY to make their recipients happy, even if their recipient's take on the show is different from their own. Even in "optional details are optional" exchanges, most people try to write the details anyway.

Such a difficult situation.

You are an excellent mod, though, and I know you work very hard to try to get the best possible matches.

[brightknightie]

>"... so many factions with such radically different takes on the characters."

I exchanged a few paragraphs of conversation with a Dark Knightie recently, and was mind-blowlingly reminded that she loves a completely different television program, one that I have never seen and would never have followed, under this same title. ~wry~

[sholio]

Yeah, I've heard people in fandom say that we're each watching our own version of any show, and sometimes you can't even figure out how people got from your show to theirs!