Multifandom Doodle 2021 - Feedback Post!

[koraki]

Hello! The first round of Multifandom Doodle has officially concluded. If you participated in any way — signing up, picking up pinch hits, creating treats, giving feedback on rules, or even just dropping by to say that this looked like a fun idea — thank you for being part of this exchange! 

 

This exchange will run again. Before the exchange runs again, I would like to get everyone's input on how the first round went. 

 

Please leave your feedback below (anon is enabled) or email multifandomdoodle@gmail.com . 

 

You are also welcome to leave your input on the following mod-proposed changes for next round:

• Add an age requirement to the rules.
  • All participants must be the legal age of majority in their jurisdiction. While Multifandom Doodle is not inherently a NSFW event, the event is intended for adults and adult content might be requested, offered, discussed, or in the case of pinch hits, posted to the DW comm. If it's brought to mod attention that a participant is a minor, that participant's signup will be deleted. 
• Increase the maximum number of characters/ships/places/objects that may be requested and offered to 20.  
• Enable participants to offer/request "Creator's Choice".
  • Creator's Choice of Fandom(s) will be a pre-added fandom in the tagset. Eligible tag phrasing could range from Creator's Choice of [X] to Creator's Fave in a Kigurumi to As Many Cats As Creator Can Think Of… etc. 
  • Creator's Choice of [X] will be considered an eligible character/ship/place/object tag phrasing within specific fandoms (Creator's Choice of Pokemon, Creator's Choice of Dumbledore's Outfits, Creator's Choice of Vladimir's Tiny Unicorns, etc.). 
  • Participants with no potential recipients at the time of matching will be matched at random to a recipient who requested Creator's Choice of Fandom(s). 

Unless there are widespread concerns about any of the mod-proposed changes, these changes will be added to the rules for next round.

Next round will run either in six months with reveals on July 25, or in a year with reveals on December 25. Please leave your input on when you'd like the next round to run. 

Thank you again for participating and I look forward to your feedback! 

Comments

[kie]

thank you so much! this was my first art exchange and i had a great time.

i’d try a july exchange but i did really like the schedule this time too. 👍

age requirement: yes please

[koraki]

You're welcome, thank you for participating! I am glad you enjoyed it.

There would still be a December 2022 round whether we do a July round or not :)

Now that the first round has concluded I am comfortable saying that I feel very strongly about the age requirement myself and am pretty embarrassed about the situation that was reported at the beginning of this round. If it had come to my attention before signups opened I would've edited the rules right away and it was my oversight not to have an age requirement in the first place. Just because this is a low minimum art exchange shouldn't suddenly make it an appropriate place for someone to try and make it into a literal "baby's first exchange" for their kid. I have negative interest in moderating an event like that. If somebody else wants to run that kind of event in the future, more power to them, but this is not the place. Anyway, thank you to everyone who did bring up the situation so things like that can be nipped in the bud in future! :D