This is Yuletide, everybody make a scene

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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: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

Hacked their accounts, you say? Would you mind going into more detail about how you did this?

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

They must have used their amazing IP bouncing skillz, which include.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

They either already knew the passwords or are an actual hacker. Sadly, both these things happen in fandom fairly consistently.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

There are actual hackers in fandom, my dude. AO3 also ain't that hard to hack.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

True and idk why more people don't remember LJ passwords have been hacked so often they've shown up for sale online.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

In fact, all the actual hackers I know are also fanpeople. (Though none of them would bother hacking an AO3 account.)

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

I am extremely curious about what the hell you mean by "actual hackers." Are people deploying their 0-day ao3 exploits?

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

Nobody is hacking AO3 that I know about, but a lot of hackers are also into fandom stuff.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

"Actual hackers" meaning people in fandom who have high-level hacking skills and are happy to use them within fandom. I deleted my LJ and the associated AO3 about seven years ago because of frequent hacking attempts from someone operating at the same level of crazy as the OP.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

NA. I've had to do this, too, coalie. Twice in the last decade, actually. Crazy stalkers be crazy.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

NA. If the "YT accounts" the OP is talking about is stuff like AO3, LJ/DW, and email, it's probably only email which might present any sort of real challenge for someone who really does know how to hack, but it would depend on which email provider being used. Some email providers are a lot easier to hack than others.