I've been in and out of kinkmemes for the better part of a decade and, while I always thought I had reasonable if not low expectations for fills, I've been kind of disappointed by this meme in particular. I've never been a part of one with such an extremely low prompt:fill ratio. When I was introduced to kinkmemes, they were a place for people with specific fetishes or rarepairs to ask for short fics of something that would probably never have been written organically. Maybe it's just this one or maybe it's all modern kmemes, but now I feel like they're just a dump for any and ever fic idea people have and it's just like FFnet or Ao3 where only really popular and common stuff gets filled, or even prompted. It's discouraging, at least to me. I used to be a big player in the bioshock kinkmeme and we would hold drives and have long freezes to try and get almost every prompt filled. Even the hetalia kinkmeme, which moved a lot faster than this one, had a high ratio of fills. Maybe I'm just disillusioned with fandom in general post-livejournal, idk, but it feels to me like, why even bother prompting if my prompt isn't something with a dozen other similar fills that I know probably will get filled. It feels like nothing else has a chance.
Re: Expectation about getting your prompt filled