Viewing post #985740 by chelle

RickCorey said:

I was thinking along he same lines as you.

If someone took the trouble to list a cultivar in their Wish List, that makes it special.

I saw a few things and took a few notes ... if I find those in my stash and add them to my SWAP-HAVE list, I would kinda like to offer it first to the person who took the trouble to fill out a detailed wish list.

{ Edited to remove a suggestion for a Swap feature. }

We might also tempt a person to join a Swap (and offer many seeds) by giving them first call on one specific packet.

I know that I will dig for and add some packets just because one particular person requested that particular thing.

In some cases, it isn't just that they took the trouble to make up a public Wish List and keep it current. Sometimes the person Wishing is also a friend or someone like a Moderator whom I want to reward in any way I can. Often I wouldn't spend 10 minutes searching for and re-labelling a onesie-packet just to offer it to anyone who is quick with a mouse-click. But suppose Trish was looking for one special herb variety? If I knew I could deignate it as FOR TRISH, I would dig, dig dig.

But I understand that often a goal is that a swap be "equally fair" in some sense, to every member. If that means that every member must have an equal chance at everything offered, that conflicts with a flag for "Give AtpMember7 first refusal on this pkt".

This is my take on it, too. One of my favorite things to do in a swap is to fulfill a few wish list items, whenever I can. This does take a lot more time, but it's really worth it because I know that someone wants them at least enough to bother researching and listing them.

It's okay if the early consensus says no. This is a learning thing all around after all.

[edited to fix a typo]