Again, don't disagree in principle. It's just not that easy in practice, for *me*, to decide I don't give a crap whether my recs are boring everybody. I hang out in a lot of fandoms where there is a massively dominant pairing, that I don't necessarily get. I'm not talking about boring a few people. I'm talking about boring *everybody*.

But this is reminding me a lot of an lj conversation I had a long time ago, where the person really didn't get why anyone would read outside their preferred pairing without a gun to their head. And I didn't get what the big deal was. So personality is a factor, I'd say. No universal way to approach it. Or universal reason to rec.