Here are my thoughts about the suggestions you make:
Assignments: keep it the way it is now. Admin assign. Drawing straws will only complicate things further.
Participation: The 2006 Swap was my first time ever to post anything on the net and I enjoyed it very much. If you had asked for a sponsor, I would have had a big problem. I think that something like a trail might be a good way to find out if someone will indeed post, but indeed ask for a drabble only, more might be to much for starting writers. I know because my muses sure took a long holiday after the exchange ;) Keeping writers as extras sounds like a good idea, but it would be less fun, especially for them.
Forum: Don't change the site. Creating a Yahoo group sounds like a good idea though.
Content: I would not add a genre or fandom, because it will only be harder to pair the participants if you do.
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Date: 2007-02-01 07:06 pm (UTC)Assignments: keep it the way it is now. Admin assign. Drawing straws will only complicate things further.
Participation: The 2006 Swap was my first time ever to post anything on the net and I enjoyed it very much. If you had asked for a sponsor, I would have had a big problem. I think that something like a trail might be a good way to find out if someone will indeed post, but indeed ask for a drabble only, more might be to much for starting writers.
I know because my muses sure took a long holiday after the exchange ;)
Keeping writers as extras sounds like a good idea, but it would be less fun, especially for them.
Forum: Don't change the site. Creating a Yahoo group sounds like a good idea though.
Content: I would not add a genre or fandom, because it will only be harder to pair the participants if you do.