All participants have officially been matched!
We apologize for the waiting limbo, but itâs official! Every participant has been matched with a gifter for the event ^^
Since weâll now officially move into the creating period, we wanted to lay out a few reminders for the months ahead between now and the posting period:
During the month of May, we will be reaching out to all participants to make sure youâre all still with us. This will be a check-in to see how the gifts are coming along. You do not have to have your gift completed at this time, nor do we require any proof that youâve started it, but we highly encourage participants to have started making good headway into their gifts by then. Life can come out of nowhere. Computers can break, tablets can go on the fritz, and people can lose track of time. Weâre giving you several months to work on stuff so use them if you can!
If we do not hear back from someone for the check-in by the end of May, we will consider that participant to have dropped from the event. We will contact a pinch-hitter so their giftee is not left out. Those who drop out before the start of June will not be barred from participation for this event, but it is highly discouraged to wait that long to drop out. If you feel like you cannot complete a gift in time, please contact us so we can make arrangements - itâs easier on us and the pinch-hitters if we have as much advanced notice as possible.
If anyone drops out after the start of June, or gets back to us during the check-ins and does not post a gift by the end of June, they will not be allowed to participate in any future gift exchanges run by the Mods.
Please check your tumblr blog settings to see if people are allowed to tag you in posts. We wonât say you have to allow people to tag you in posts, but we are making it required for gifters to at least attempt to tag their giftees - and if your settings do not allow people to tag you in posts, you will not be notified that theyâve posted your gift.
Most of this was required for last yearâs gift exchange as well, but we wanted to make it concise and in one post so everyone could have easy access to this information.
Finally, we wanted to remind everyone of our tagging requirements for this exchange, and wanted to remind everyone why we require all of this.
Tumblr doesnât work half the time, and it can sometimes be frustrating to find what youâre looking for. One specific method doesnât universally work for every post, so as tedious as it might seem this is the only way we can guarantee we can find everything, given all the broken tags and the shadow banned accounts and people not realizing their settings for their blogs might not allow their username to be searched for. Because of all of this, as well as courtesy warnings for some potentially triggering content, these are our tagging and posting requirements:
@ this blog (madatobigiftexchange) somewhere in the post
@ your giftee somewhere in the post
in the tags section, use the tag âmadatobi gift exchange 2021âł
in the tags section, tag any relevant triggers or content warnings
if posting art with potentially triggering content, use the âread moreâ function when posting and post the art under the cut
If any of this is confusing or unclear, please let us know! Our inbox and asks are always open, and we want to make this as smooth and as enjoyable of an event for everyone as possible ^^ Most of all we wish for people to have fun with the prompts they were given, and to create something theyâre happy to give to someone else who also adores this pairing.
Thank you once again to all of the returning participants this year, and a special welcome and thank you to all of the new participants as well! We look forward to seeing what yâall create this year!
