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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)]

I do judge people who sign up twice knowing they can complete 2+ gifts and wanting to be guaranteed 2+ gifts. Because of the nature of matching algorithms, defaults, etc, hundreds of people are going to have at least one more assignment than they're "owed" gifts. So socking during signups leads to some "what if everyone thought that way" implications that aren't really fair to PHers (and/or treaters).

I don't understand how this isn't fair, or rather, how this is any more unfair than it would be if no one socked up. Because treaters and pinch hitters would still not get a guaranteed (extra)b gift, so "hundreds of people are going to have at least one more assignment than they're "owed" gifts" would still be true.

I think your assumption is 'if all people who know they can complete 2+ gifts absolutely weren't allowed to sign up twice, they would treat or pinch hit instead' and that's just not true. If only one sign-up was possible, a lot of them would simply post only a single fic.

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have absolutely no idea where they get the "people who sock get more gifts than they're entitled to"

like ... no? it's not cake?

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

Because treaters and pinch hitters would still not get a guaranteed (extra)b gift, so "hundreds of people are going to have at least one more assignment than they're "owed" gifts" would still be true. Yes, that's true, sorry for misleading phrasing.

A better way of describing my assumption is that, if socking were explicitly allowed and welcomed, i think there would be a lot more people who sign up several times but write the same amount they would have written otherwise. When some of those accounts go out to ph, that would potentially create a larger load on the ph pool and cause problems (but that scale load/problems doesnt currently exist).

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Most of my assignments don't end up being "fics I would've come up with spontaneously and finished by deadline anyway." Maybe they take extra research, maybe they need a bunch of canon review, maybe the idea only came together because I had to really sit with the letter instead of just browsing past it while looking for treat inspiration, maybe I wouldn't have made the writing a priority without the sense of obligation to put the pressure on...

I'm always happy with the results! (Recip comments are always positive, too.) And sometimes treats happen on top of the assignments. Still doesn't mean the assignment fics themselves would've happened as treats.