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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)]

someone who socks up 3 times is more likely to be a PHer and treater than a NovaMist. So really with treating odds it’s 3 gifts (maybe 5, if we assume one of their accounts gets lucky) and something like 10 fics written.

That has not been my experience. Most people who write lots of treats only sign up on one account and people who have been caught socking like NovaMist or the socktopus only write their assignments, if that.

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're vastly underestimating how well people with socks operate.

Source: I show up on the good egg list for commenting/being 3+ fic prolific every year. I usually sign up with at least one sock, sometimes two. I just don't feel a need to make my sock be obvious. It seems like a perfectly average one and done participant, while my main identity is out there cranking out treats and commenting everywhere. I really doubt I'm the only one.

Re: So many socks

[(Anonymous)]

Full Disclosure: I ran two socks for... 3 years, I believe. I'm habitually on the 3+ story lists; I write PHs and treats. I had never gotten a treat, and was feeling a little salty, and created my first sock. My sock got 4 stories. It was an embarrassment of riches.

The next year I used them for nominations, too. I did it all right: detailed letters, good comments, wrote treats. I even took PHs with them, so I could get 2 from the same batch.

In the end, I stopped using them, because I wanted all the stories I wrote to be on my main, and didn't want my socks to look like serial defaulters. On average, I probably wrote slightly more the years I had socks, but I also had more time those years, which is why I knew I'd be able to sock without defaulting.