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)]

Um, coal, it's not the Yuletide mods' job to fix AO3 code. WTF?

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

They don't think it is. It's in response to an earlier comment claiming that mods mostly have IT experience.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

IT skills =/= coding

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

IT skills doesn't have to mean coding, but it is a pretty big umbrella term and I think coding fits under it.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

It's not so much that it's the Yuletide mods' job to fix AO3 code, as it is some of the people who are AO3 maintainers are also Yuletide mods.

See hhertzof and astolat (or at least she used to be). I think an AO3 support account was listed as a Yuletide collection owner.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

I think there’s still a wide gap between AO3 support and people who do the actual coding. IT is usually used to refer to people who act in more of a support capacity—people who administer or figure out the best ways of using software, not the people who make the software.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

SC and while nobody needs IT experience to mod, support-related skills are far more relevant to exchange modding than coding is.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

DC. Yes, and a lot of those "support-related skills" include IT skills. Being able to fix errors in someone's sign-up or the YT tagset don't involve coding per se, but it requires a level of IT skill that a lot of people evidently don't have, and that includes some mods. You need a mix of skills to run something as big as YT and while not every individual mod team member may have all those skills, you need to have those skills within your team, or you're in big trouble.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

I think most of _coal understands this. It seems to be just the subthread op who's making claims about unspecified "IT skills" being necessary to mod.

Re: Your Yuletide sins

[(Anonymous)]

NC and I don't think it's the subthread OP who told the frightening tale of framing people to get them banned who starting talking about the IT stuff. I think it's a few people who read into the OP's vague comments about "IT skills" and "hacking" and went off on their own tangent.