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[(Anonymous)]

I think so too, and that’s why I’m on Team Tell The Mods.

[(Anonymous)]

What? Why? By doing that, they didn't break any rules and coalie liked the fic.

[(Anonymous)]

They knowingly broke the rules, in fact. You can ODAO all you want on everything but Fandom and Characters (and DNWs). You can’t just offer two characters, decide the idea you like best means you only care about A now, and then have a one line mention of B to do the minimum to cover your butt/as an afterthought.

They should not have offered B if they didn’t want to write about B. If those were the only two characters nommed? Don’t offer the fandom.

[(Anonymous)]

But it's not breaking the rules. It is at worst bending them slightly to write something their recipient will enjoy, which coalie did.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh please. If Untherius' bullshit is allowed to continue because he's supposedly making a good faith effort to write something his recipient liked, you cannot realistically think that this counts as breaking the rules.

[(Anonymous)]

dc

Well, if nothing else, the mods are in a better position than the recip or any of us right now to judge whether the author is clueless but acting in good faith or someone who should know better actively trying to skirt the rules.

[(Anonymous)]

It is so weird to me that you have built an entire personality for this author that says they just wildly go around seeking loopholes for rules and need to be watched, for something that didn't even land coalie with a bad fic.

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, whut? a) That was my first comment, and b) I'm saying we don't know anything at all about the author. I think all this discussion of their motives and knowledge of the rules is pointless. OTOH, the mods can check who they are, so they might have more insight.

[(Anonymous)]

You seem to be agreeing with the coalies who think the Yuletide mods should keep an eye on this author in the future. I think that's a wild overreaction to what is a simple case of ODAO that skirts a rule.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I'm agreeing with people who say contacting the mods is better than minimodding yourself, because you're going to feel like a dumbass if you gently inform a newbie of the rules and it turns out to actually be rosefox.

[(Anonymous)]

It is breaking the rules. At best, very best, it's skirting them, and it's a shitty thing to do. But given Untherius' history and what he gets away with, I don't think realistically the mods will give a shit.

I'd point out in my comment that I'd requested character both characters and was disappointed one of them wasn't in it, but that I liked other things about the story, if I did, and be done with it. (I probably wouldn't have liked it if it flew in the face of my request that way, though. I might be able to think it's well-written or probably a decent story, but it would be coal for me if it only contained one of the two characters I requested. So easy decision.)

[(Anonymous)]

You're an idiot.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, coalie! Merry tidings and best regards.