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Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
(Anonymous) 2021-11-03 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)-if you match on one it can be frustrating to have nothing at all but a letter and maybe a few other gifts. I'm not even someone who stalks recips, but I'm going to read certain things in you letter differently if you're an experienced active fan vs. a newb who just stopped lurking. If I can tell.
-also if you match with a probably-sock anonymity is harder? I sometimes post writing updates to a small locked group, but I know some of them sock up for yt, so I feel like I can't even freely, like, ask for a canon beta unless I know whose sock it is.
-if i get a gift fic and it's the best thing I've ever read, I want to go find the rest of your stuff too :(
-if I get a gift fic and it's coal, I'm going to slant my comment differently if it's a newb doing their best vs. someone's lazy sock. If I can tell
Like most of those would go away if people could just sign up twice, and they don't apply to long-standing, well-worn socks, but it's still always a letdown to check in on a participant and see ... blank space.
Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
(Anonymous) 2021-11-03 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)When I started writing fic and had exactly two fics to my name, I signed up for Yuletide and people assumed I was a sock. I wasn't; I just had no previous fandom presence. However, I've been writing since I was a kid and I'd been reading fic for a few years, so I didn't come off all wide-eyed. I don't think there's ever a good way of sussing this out. Coal is coal. Be mean or don't be mean. You don't really need to develop... tiers of response??
Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
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(Anonymous) 2021-11-03 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
(Anonymous) 2021-11-03 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)Do you not comment until after author reveals? Otherwise how would you be able to tell what kind of participant they are?
Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
(Anonymous) 2021-11-03 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Hot take time: are socks bad?
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