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Help with the AO3 exchange form?
Mar. 12th, 2016 11:32 amOkay, I confess: certain aspects of the AO3 form for setting up a fic exchange are baffling me utterly.
There are two specific things I am having trouble figuring out, and would really appreciate advice from anyone who's run or helped run an exchange on AO3.
- Several of the exchanges I've participated in lately have used an optional tag field to allow people to check "fic" or "art". As far as I can tell, this is the only way to do matching in an exchange that includes both. But I can't figure out how to add these fields.
- It's possible to have one request that includes multiple pairings, or have each pairing as its own request. Anyone have advice on the best way to set this up for matching purposes? Especially since this is a single-fandom exchange and therefore theoretically less complicated, I could easily just have one request per signup, allowing people to enter however many pairings they want (up to the maximum). OR I could have each pairing as its own request and allow 6 or 8 or whatever I decide to make the maximum. Pros? Cons? "One request, multiple pairings" seems like the most straightforward, but "multiple requests, one pairing each" allows people to easily enter their optional details for each pairing, as those are probably going to be different.
For the last one, I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who's participated in several exchanges as far as which version you found easiest to use.
I also haven't decided what my minimum/maximums are going to be. Matching is going to be done on the basis of pairing/relationship. Right now I'm thinking:
Requests: minimum 1, maximum 8
Offers: minimum 2, maximum 8
Allowing people to offer as little as one pairing might be a TERRIBLE idea, but I also don't think there are going to be that many people who are that OTP-ish about really rare pairings (that is, I would expect that people who really only want ONE are going to come from the bigger pairings, though I might be tragically mistaken). Anyway, I could also bump it up to two.
Opinions very welcome!
There are two specific things I am having trouble figuring out, and would really appreciate advice from anyone who's run or helped run an exchange on AO3.
- Several of the exchanges I've participated in lately have used an optional tag field to allow people to check "fic" or "art". As far as I can tell, this is the only way to do matching in an exchange that includes both. But I can't figure out how to add these fields.
- It's possible to have one request that includes multiple pairings, or have each pairing as its own request. Anyone have advice on the best way to set this up for matching purposes? Especially since this is a single-fandom exchange and therefore theoretically less complicated, I could easily just have one request per signup, allowing people to enter however many pairings they want (up to the maximum). OR I could have each pairing as its own request and allow 6 or 8 or whatever I decide to make the maximum. Pros? Cons? "One request, multiple pairings" seems like the most straightforward, but "multiple requests, one pairing each" allows people to easily enter their optional details for each pairing, as those are probably going to be different.
For the last one, I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who's participated in several exchanges as far as which version you found easiest to use.
I also haven't decided what my minimum/maximums are going to be. Matching is going to be done on the basis of pairing/relationship. Right now I'm thinking:
Requests: minimum 1, maximum 8
Offers: minimum 2, maximum 8
Allowing people to offer as little as one pairing might be a TERRIBLE idea, but I also don't think there are going to be that many people who are that OTP-ish about really rare pairings (that is, I would expect that people who really only want ONE are going to come from the bigger pairings, though I might be tragically mistaken). Anyway, I could also bump it up to two.
Opinions very welcome!