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Yuletide Weather Forecast:
 
Temperatures are estimated to fluctuate between active panic and total apathy into the next weekend. Main assignments will have a minimum temperature of regret and a complete climate change once editing is complete. Expect treat writing to continue at all free hours unless the dangerous front of procrastination cropping up in the Northeast successful moves into the area, effectively killing the treat storm conditions for the season. 

 

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Comments

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

The things that get an illegal sock booted that wouldn't get a legal participant booted are jus getting caught being an illegal sock. The reason most people get away with multiple signups is that they're careful to not link their accounts in any way and to sign up and participate exactly as a legitimate participant would.

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

Right. So we don't need an anti-socks rule just to get rid of badly-behaved socks, they are got rid of for being badly-behaved. So we have the occasional well-behaved sock that gets booted largely at random. Meanwhile there's a large number of people (many of whom aren't really *that* careful about never mentioning they have a sock) who get away with it, but only because they're insider enough to know that it gets winked at, and anyone who isn't insider enough or doesn't want to actively break the rules doesn't have the option.

Like: Honestly, the entire Yuletide FAQ is currently written as if the rule is "one signup per AO3 account." All they would have to do is quietly remove rule #1 and voila, that becomes the de facto standard. Make sure NovaMisting-type gimcrackery is covered under general bad behaviour rules (which it should be) and Bob's your uncle. Or possibly dentist.

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

If the mods really cared about socks, they would note when fics get switched around during the anon period. If you switched it to an account that had ever signed up as your main account, there’s a ban lol

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn't have to be "ever" - some people do just switch to a new account - but if there's more than one non-PH assignment for the last year on the same account by the next-sign up time, that seems like a pretty obvious "ban for sockpuppeting". If the mods actually cared. Which they don't!