swap chart/rules

Hi, I love hosting and signing up with swaps. But lately it seems to be a bit stressful and a lack of communication.

I was thinking is there a way we can set up some type of chart and rules for being to be more understanding that some of their partners have worked hard on their creations so they wont get left out when they send their stuff.

I will send tara to this topic so she can throw some suggestions too, we been talking alot about them and wanted to share our ideas with you.

Thanks guys, love ya and HAPPY VALENTINES DAY TO YA!
SUG

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10 replies since 10th February 2009 • Last reply 10th February 2009

Reply #1:

Yes, this would be nice.

Rules like you can't join a certain amount of swaps at a time. You can't be late everytime! Or not send your stuff at all and be able to join other swaps. Or join and drop out. I understand stuff happens and sometimes people need to drop out, or send it late what have you. But to do it encesantly you should not be aloud to join swaps anymore. If we had some way of keeping track of this kind of stuff that would be nice.

And to also keep track of how awsome people do with their swaps too. Not just the bad stuff. (=

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Reply #2:

maybe until some sort of way to fix this comes along, if you've come across someone who's not following the "rules" you can keep an eye on them and report them to the host of a swap you see that that person has joined up with? try to watch each others' backs and what not in the mean time. maybe even write a message to Crafterella or someone to let them know that the person isn't being fair or whatever and that they may need to keep an eye on them if they're joining up with a lot of swaps at the same time.

for the record, I've been really happy in the swaps I've been in and haven't come across anything "bad" from my partners that I'd need to report or anything Happy I just think this is a good idea to be able to monitor the swaps so someone doesn't eventually get screwed or anything :\

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Reply #3:

Good idea Candice. Glad everything has gone good in your swaps. Lots of other people haven't been so lucky though. ;(

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Reply #4:

or have beginner swaps where you send little things until you get a good reputation for sending and being on time built up.

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Reply #5:

good ideas! i was thinking there could be a swapping code. so say each diiferent iteem has a different value eg 1 point- hairclip/earings/ect 2 points- bracelets 3 points- necklace 4 points- purse/clutch and so on and then for each swap you have a jhow many points worth of things you have to make. so it could be 10, 5, 7 so on. so everyone gets around the same and no ones gets wayyy less than others!



also maybe on the board you had a form to fill in befr starting a swap so you fill in the form about it, send off date, sign up date, and so on so then everyone will know the infomation strait away!

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Reply #6:

I really like that points idea because i never know how many things to send and it was really confusing my first swap

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Reply #7:

yay it made sense to 1 person! Happy

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Reply #8:

has anything else come of this idea? I saw someone mention something about a bad-swappers list in one of the swaps Tongue I'm assuming this was a personal list, maybe even mentioned in jest, but we really need at least something like that to watch out for when starting/joining a swap since they're sorta all "swap at your own risk" right now. btw - still haven't run into any probs in the swaps I've been in Happy just thought I'd check again and see if there was any developement of a nifty little system anyone's thought up yet that I didn't know about.

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Reply #9:

maybe we should have a everyone one who wants to swap give a leader of all swaps there information and we keep a catalog and if you get one or two bad swaps reports we put like a ban and keep iot in the catalog that they have been banned

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Reply #10:

its a good idea! although it may be quite alot of work for the leader. But i dont think it is fair if they are banned cos it may not always be there fault!

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