As for your reply on the FAQ, I'm currently waiting to discuss this with my co-mod. You give us sound reasons and I believe this is a matter worth looking into. However, I'm a little hesitant to change things now that the nominations have already started. It would be unfair to those whose nominated characters I have rejected. The 250 fanwork rule gives us mods, who don't know most fandoms, an objective way of gauging the rarity of a character.
That is what worked for us last year, because we were obviously just starting out and didn't expect much participation. But since we are both inexperienced, and most of our participants know better what works for them in exchanges than we do, we are of course willing to accommodate them.
In the meantime, I can only say that if checking rarity is too much for you (and I agree, it is taxing) you can still nominate your characters and hope the numbers aren't against them. Last year, a lot of people did that too. We gave them the opportunity to debate rejections, but no one used that. Only one appproval was debated, because AO3 put it in the wrong fandom.
In any case, we thank you for your input, and hope it won't take us too long to arrive at some sort of conclusion.
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Date: 2014-07-01 02:59 pm (UTC)As for your reply on the FAQ, I'm currently waiting to discuss this with my co-mod. You give us sound reasons and I believe this is a matter worth looking into. However, I'm a little hesitant to change things now that the nominations have already started. It would be unfair to those whose nominated characters I have rejected. The 250 fanwork rule gives us mods, who don't know most fandoms, an objective way of gauging the rarity of a character.
That is what worked for us last year, because we were obviously just starting out and didn't expect much participation. But since we are both inexperienced, and most of our participants know better what works for them in exchanges than we do, we are of course willing to accommodate them.
In the meantime, I can only say that if checking rarity is too much for you (and I agree, it is taxing) you can still nominate your characters and hope the numbers aren't against them. Last year, a lot of people did that too. We gave them the opportunity to debate rejections, but no one used that. Only one appproval was debated, because AO3 put it in the wrong fandom.
In any case, we thank you for your input, and hope it won't take us too long to arrive at some sort of conclusion.