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Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

How do the mods not notice something like this, especially when most of the fandoms of the defaults/PHs end up coinciding?

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Well, i mean, they did

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

They didn't.

Someone on coal realized one of the socks linked to the wrong letter and the wank blew up here. Because the mods go here, they realized they had been duped and then yanked all the PHs and banned the person.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

That's kind of simplifying it but the mis-linked letter definitely kicked the investigation off.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

From what I hear, the sock army was around for several years so they didn't notice it at first, even though it seems kind of obvious if they're defaulting in succession like that. But I guess hindsight is 20/20

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

It was 3-4 before 2014, 2014 had ten accounts that slipped up, and apparently after they banned her the first time she went "you can't tell me what to to" and tried to come back with 15+.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

Honestly it's really easy to miss this sort of thing as a mod in a normal sized exchange, much less something as big as yuletide. PHs tend to be out of mind as soon as they're claimed, even more so if the recip defaults afterwards.

And that's with one mod who is guaranteed to have all the pieces of the puzzle. If yuletide splits up the duties enough then a single mod might not have enough information to see a pattern in the defaults. The person who recorded the default isn't necessarily the person formatting PHs, which would mean no chance to connect request info with author/recip info.

Re: Yuletide history

[(Anonymous)]

This. Modding smaller exchanges, I don't look too closely at what people are offering and see if they're gaming unless I have specific reasons to keep a close eye on them, because there are a lot of offers, a lot of defaulters, and a lot of pinch hits. It's just not worth the time. When you're looking at over a thousand participants, oof, there's just no way (unless, again, you know there's something to be concerned about).

And I agree that well-behaved socks aren't a big deal. Behaving well includes actually intending to turn in gifts for each account, though. Agreed with the Al Capone comparison.