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Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

DC

First stupid idea to come to mind is "nominating pledges you to sign up with the AO3 account you used to nominate". Runs into problems as soon as anybody has good reasons not to sign up, e.g. unexpected RL issues that mean you can't dedicate time to writing a gift, but it's a thought.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

It's actually not a bad idea - might reduce possible socks / sock armies!

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

It would be a nightmare to enforce, because mods don't see who nominates.

And I, for one, would have zero qualms having socks "pledge" to sign up and then have a RL emergency.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I think the only way to enforce would be a) for mods to be able to see who nominates and b) nominating but not signing up puts you on the NYR list for *next* yuletide and/or disqualifies you for getting pinch hits this year. And they would also have to put in serious effort to hunt down socks, of course.

I think well before they did that though they would either reduce max noms per person/increase min offers per person, or they would completely change the way noms are done.

People like you, coalie, who just want to see the world burn, would figure out a way get in no matter what, but if we cleared out most of the people who are just nomming as a favor for a friend or who are nomming on spec but don't really think they'll sign up this year or are nomming because they want to treat but not sign up, it would probably reduce the level to where it wasn't causing problems. And honestly a polite request or two would likely work for that.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I think the only way to enforce would be a) for mods to be able to see who nominates

But that's not how AO3 works. This isn't a Yuletide thing, it's a AO3 thing. AO3 have to rework the entire nomination process for all exchanges. And while they've changed things to give Yuletide specific functionality before, I really doubt that this would be worth it.

And I don't want to see the world burn. I just want to nominate a variety of things so that when sign-ups come around, I have fandoms I really want to request. Narrowing them down before nominations doesn't work for me.

I don't think it would solve anything, anyway. The assumption that there are unmatchables because there are too many nominations is faulty from the start.

Re: Four IPHs left

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, they have the head coder on the mods list, they could probably get a special database report just for them if they asked very nicely. (And they're probably going to have to totally redo the exchange code if they ever get moving on block lists; better noms handling would likely be on the list, because you'd need to be able to block people from nomming in your exchange.)

But yes, I don't think they would do that as their first move. They would change the required numbers again first. And it's not that bad yet, but it's way up compared to last year, so it could get that bad in a couple more.