flash exchanges!

I'm torn on max bids per writer/max commitment per writer, because one person's "reasonable" is another's "ha ha are you kidding." Some people could very comfortably commit to 10k+ and that's totally out of reach for others. Some people are inclined to bid really conservatively and some bid really extravagantly. And if you'd asked me in advance whether I could write 17k in ten days I would have laughed in your face (I still can't believe I did that! I definitely could not do it consistently!), so even asking people to set "budgets" in advance might not work. And so much depends on the requests, like if it's very Star Wars/MCU heavy I'm not going to have much to bid on but if lots of people are requesting original work then I'll bid all over the place... writers are just so variable and I don't think there's a way to do a writer-focused system of limits. I think lower max bids have a better chance of keeping people from burning out while making space for the super productive to be super productive, and some kind of pinch hit system will allow people who overcommitted/had an emergency/whatever to offload their commitment as needed.