Authors have been revealed for the 2023 round! Thank you to all participants, signed up and pinch hitters alike – you are what keeps this exchange going.

While you are here, I'd like to hear your opinions on two things:

1. The canon promo post. This year, it was posted between nominations and sign-ups. Previously, it's been posted before either. Did you prefer the guarantee that the promoted thing would be in the tagset, or the extra time to check things out? Have you ever checked out anything based on the canon promo post, or is it just a bunch of people posting into the void?

2. The tagset. Currently, tags are nominated in the Character field and must be nominated like this:
Character: Leia Organa (OT)
Relationship: Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker (OT)
Worldbuilding: Bespin gas extraction (OT)

This format has several benefits: it allows matching on characters, relationships, or worldbuilding tags, the tags do not wander at all, and it is immediately obvious if someone has not read the nomination instructions. However, it means no canonical tags can be used, which means every association of tag to fandom has to be approved as well. The prefixes also eat from the 100-character maximum tag length, which might cause issues for poly relationship nominators in particular. Did you run into tag length issues?

The alternative would be to use the Relationship field and nominate the above like this:
Leia Organa & none (OT)
Leia Organa & Luke Skywalker (OT)
WB: Bespin gas extraction (OT)

The immediate issues with this would be that the tags might wander (so Luke & Leia (OT) might decide to visit the Sequel Trilogy fandom despite the disambiguation), and that someone who has not read the nominations instructions might think this is a purely relationship-matching exchange and fill up their nom slots before realizing they can nom and request single characters and worldbuilding.

If you have anything else you wish to talk about, I would be interested to hear as well! Anonymous commenting is on.