I knew that the two nominations rule was a compromise with what the old mods wanted, but I hadn't heard that what they wanted was an even higher number of people needed to confirm a nomination. I thought we didn't know what the alternative was.
This was a couple years after they moved the whole shebang to AO3, right? And just as its popularity was peaking and participant numbers were getting bigger every year- I wonder if they started getting nervous about Yuletide hitting 2500 participants, 3000, and wanted to limit the number of people submitting nominations to make it easier and faster to sort through them. Rather than, say, add more tag mods they proposed that you could only nominate if you had a clean record of doing Yuletide for 3+ or 5+ years. (This is pure speculation on my part.)
I don't why they wanted to somehow reduce the number of nominations and fandoms in the tagset, but ita, it sure as shit wasn't because of tag bloat, server strain, or matchability.
Re: Your Yuletide sins
This was a couple years after they moved the whole shebang to AO3, right? And just as its popularity was peaking and participant numbers were getting bigger every year- I wonder if they started getting nervous about Yuletide hitting 2500 participants, 3000, and wanted to limit the number of people submitting nominations to make it easier and faster to sort through them. Rather than, say, add more tag mods they proposed that you could only nominate if you had a clean record of doing Yuletide for 3+ or 5+ years. (This is pure speculation on my part.)
I don't why they wanted to somehow reduce the number of nominations and fandoms in the tagset, but ita, it sure as shit wasn't because of tag bloat, server strain, or matchability.