I probably won't use it, at least right now, because I like the game of hunting for fics to fit the letters. *g* As you say though, there's not so many fics for some letters, like X, that we can be too choosey about what we use!
It honestly never occured to me to say something like "You have to use a fic that no one else has used" (I think that's what you mean by "unique fics"?) for all the reasons that you give! It's fun reading fics that other people have posted to their Bingo cards, and half the point of the game is finding fics that other people might have talked about, and because there's not enough for some letters to "go round" everyone! *g* People should read what they want to, as far as I'm concerned - I certainly plan to! *vbg*
ETA - also, I'm not big on restricting people in what they do. My preference is for minimum rules, except where they're needed to keep people safe/do something efficiently etc. So for instance we have a timing rule for posts at the Dialj Christmas calendar game, for the very practical reason that everyone's in different time zones, and their posts could clash without specifying a time zone (and the lads' time zone makes sense!) And we have rules about not adding big spoiler-y warnings etc. out in the open where people are forced to see them, because that upsets some people - but people are absolutely free to add spoilers etc. if they want to in a way that doesn't affect/upset others, in the trailer that goes at the end of a story. And we say that's how it works on the User Info page, so everyone knows where to find the information if they want to. I can't see any practical reason for restricting people in what they want to read, though! *g*
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Date: 2022-01-23 01:02 pm (UTC)It honestly never occured to me to say something like "You have to use a fic that no one else has used" (I think that's what you mean by "unique fics"?) for all the reasons that you give! It's fun reading fics that other people have posted to their Bingo cards, and half the point of the game is finding fics that other people might have talked about, and because there's not enough for some letters to "go round" everyone! *g* People should read what they want to, as far as I'm concerned - I certainly plan to! *vbg*
ETA - also, I'm not big on restricting people in what they do. My preference is for minimum rules, except where they're needed to keep people safe/do something efficiently etc. So for instance we have a timing rule for posts at the Dialj Christmas calendar game, for the very practical reason that everyone's in different time zones, and their posts could clash without specifying a time zone (and the lads' time zone makes sense!) And we have rules about not adding big spoiler-y warnings etc. out in the open where people are forced to see them, because that upsets some people - but people are absolutely free to add spoilers etc. if they want to in a way that doesn't affect/upset others, in the trailer that goes at the end of a story. And we say that's how it works on the User Info page, so everyone knows where to find the information if they want to. I can't see any practical reason for restricting people in what they want to read, though! *g*