October 1: I write and post a fic for Ghost Blue outside of any exchange. My work is on the archive that anyone can read right now. The Ghost Blue tag is unwrangled.
Nov 5: Yuletide author posts their unrevealed gift for Ghost Blue. There are now 2 works on the tag, my revealed fic and their unrevealed one.
Nov 15: Comment on the Ghost Blue tag by hh saying that no wrangler should touch the GB tag until Yuletide reveals.
This makes no sense under Ao3 rules. The minute hh saw that there was a public fic on the tag while they were doing their Yuletide rounds, they should have canonized it (as one of the few wranglers with the authorization to do so) like they would any other fandom that was waiting to be wrangled, and then another wrangler could have cleaned up the rest of the tags/claimed it as their own.
Deciding to leave it unwrangled AND using their head mod powers so that no other advanced wrangler can touch it without getting in trouble is what the OP was saying is stupid.
This is different from a fandom with 0 (unrevealed) fic, which is what you are talking about.
Re: Mini-Challenges
October 1: I write and post a fic for Ghost Blue outside of any exchange. My work is on the archive that anyone can read right now. The Ghost Blue tag is unwrangled.
Nov 5: Yuletide author posts their unrevealed gift for Ghost Blue. There are now 2 works on the tag, my revealed fic and their unrevealed one.
Nov 15: Comment on the Ghost Blue tag by hh saying that no wrangler should touch the GB tag until Yuletide reveals.
This makes no sense under Ao3 rules. The minute hh saw that there was a public fic on the tag while they were doing their Yuletide rounds, they should have canonized it (as one of the few wranglers with the authorization to do so) like they would any other fandom that was waiting to be wrangled, and then another wrangler could have cleaned up the rest of the tags/claimed it as their own.
Deciding to leave it unwrangled AND using their head mod powers so that no other advanced wrangler can touch it without getting in trouble is what the OP was saying is stupid.
This is different from a fandom with 0 (unrevealed) fic, which is what you are talking about.