regardless of reason/rationale If people want to nominate these characters, isn't that a reason to nominate them? What other reason is there to nominate a character unless 1) you want to write about them 2) you want to read about them or 3) you're nominating because someone else wants them and they ran out of slots?
Character nomination coordination last year helped one fandom I know in particular, Critical Role. They had 24 characters nominated last year, and got 15 stories in the collection by year's end. Everyone from the main cast (6 characters) to the supporting cast, to some of the villains, were nominated. I got matched with someone who requested one of the minor antagonists. They were overjoyed. That wouldn't have happened without coordination among fans to ensure multiple characters got nominated, not just 4 of the leads by 20 different people. I don't think "inflating characters in the tagset" is something to worry about right now. If it becomes a problem later, great, there's plenty of ways to solve that. But right now it seems that Yuletide doesn't need to shrink itself down.
no subject
If people want to nominate these characters, isn't that a reason to nominate them? What other reason is there to nominate a character unless 1) you want to write about them 2) you want to read about them or 3) you're nominating because someone else wants them and they ran out of slots?
Character nomination coordination last year helped one fandom I know in particular, Critical Role. They had 24 characters nominated last year, and got 15 stories in the collection by year's end. Everyone from the main cast (6 characters) to the supporting cast, to some of the villains, were nominated. I got matched with someone who requested one of the minor antagonists. They were overjoyed. That wouldn't have happened without coordination among fans to ensure multiple characters got nominated, not just 4 of the leads by 20 different people.
I don't think "inflating characters in the tagset" is something to worry about right now. If it becomes a problem later, great, there's plenty of ways to solve that. But right now it seems that Yuletide doesn't need to shrink itself down.