This is Yuletide, everybody make a scene

[coalcube]

I am the sock with the tear-away face

Low-effort with your gift and gone without a trace

I am the "who" when you call, "Who does an exchange without acknowledging their gift?"
I am the wanker blowing through your fics comments
I am the coalie dragging your letter at night
Filling your exchange to the brim with fright!

This is Coaltide!

Nominations: Tuesday 22 September to Thursday 1 October

Sign-ups: Friday 16 October to Monday 26 October

Assignments out: between 26 & 28 October

Default deadline: Friday 11 December

Assignment Deadline: Friday 18 December

Yuletide Discord for Hippos. Google Group for PHs. F_F wiki for history.

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Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

Just a small correction - elynross handed yuletide over to hhertzof and jenn_calaelen back in the day. They were both meant to be the new 'face' of yuletide moddery, but there was massive wank that year about their handling of certain issues. Hhertzof couldn't take the heat and quickly took a back seat role, just focusing on behind the scenes/technical modding. Jenn (of 'noted.' fame) was the main mod for a few years. At that time, Morbane wasn't an official mod at all, but she did increasingly act as assistant mod, taking on more and more responsibility until officially taking the reins a few years ago.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

That's not correct either. Elynross and astolat handed it over to Jenn_Calaelen, BridgetMcKennitt, and hhertzof. BridgetMcKennitt quit shortly after the new mods raised the idea of having people second nominations (wasn't that astolat's idea though?) Astolat stayed on in an advisory capacity, and Jenn and hhertzof continued. I don't know where you're getting the hhertzof couldn't take the heat idea, since she's posted and replied to comments frequently since, although I think you're right about Morbane's developing role.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

Oh no, you're right, I was confusing Bridget who had to step back because of all the wank, and Hh. Although HH has almost always done more of the behind the scenes stuff which is likely why I thought that.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if, originally, the idea had been that Jenn and hh would do more back-end stuff, and BridgetMK would do communications. Either way, I have sympathy for Jenn and her 'Noted'. A lot of the time in a role like that you're explaining someone else's decision.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

What is the "Noted." issue?

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

People flipped the fuck out about how it seemed dismissive.

Re: Mini-Challenges

[(Anonymous)]

I believe it was 'noted.' actually, lower case, as her entire reply to people commenting to the admin posts making reasonable arguments about whatever controversial rules wankery was going on that year. (Comics? It was probably comics.) Like someone would have paragraphs of good faith opinions about why what the mods were doing was questionable or outright wrong and Jenn's reply would be 'noted.'

But I think it was that Jenn (and possibly the other new mods that year) had a rather more blunt manner overall in dealing with people than elynross, who made a show of being friendly and CON-y with everyone in public. Jenn came off as dismissive and uncaring in comparison, and 'noted' exemplified that perfectly and became a running joke for a while.

The irony is elynross was the biggest asshole of them all but yuletide regulars were used to her 'we're all a big happy yuletide family lol BEARS!!' shtick, completely forgetting all her shitty mod calls over the years.