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Comments

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Are you claiming you’re sharing the name for great justice and not because you’re a messy bitch who loves drama? I have doubts.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

everyone here is a messy bitch who loves drama. we're on coal

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

NA

Yeah... I came here to see what the whole thing was about and I agree...It was cool to discover coal I guess, but good bye forever

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

This isn't an airport, you don't have to announce your departure

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

But how else will we know they left????? :(

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Right? Coal, from its humble beginnings at yuletide_coal, was established to be a place to talk smack about the mods and other Yuletiders. We are all messy bitches who love drama and trash talk. That's why we're here.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC

To be perfectly honest, I feel this way about the detailed posting with quotes from the emails here. If those shouldn't have been shared in the mod discord, they shouldn't have been shared in an even more public place. There are other, more careful ways of whistleblowing if that feels necessary to you.

And...honestly, did that person speak up or push back at all in chat? Or did they just think the best way to defend the recipient was to splash their distressing situation all over coal?

Posting things to coal doesn't address problems, it just makes them blow up into wank, and it speaks more to enjoying gossip than improving exchange culture. If that's what you want to do, fine I guess, but I don't know that I prefer that approach from people I'm emailing with my private problems in an exchange, either.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1

I can see why someone in the mod server was angry at the way the recipient was treated. It was thoughtless and smallminded. However I'm getting more and more the impression that whoever shared the details was just itching for a reason to break containment; this was their excuse.

Someone already offered to share the mod's other identity with the recipient directly - which doesn't seem helpful to me but still has a sliver of justification.

If Coal wanted to avoid this mod, we could avoid their exchange. We didn't need extra names.

Wondering if the OP has a grudge against this mod personally, tbh.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah my guess was OP had a beef with either this mod or the mod who made that comment about lying. That doesn't take away from my personal enjoyment of this wank at all though! This has been some of the best exchange wank in ages.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

The "lying" mod was EO. You're spoiled for choice about who has bad blood with him.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC I agree on all counts. A+ wank.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1 I would not have done it because my inclination would have been to let the recipient know directly (if I could track them down). But I am ok enjoying the fruit of someone else’s wank labor.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Both of those people (especially e_o) have been longstanding coal favorite targets, you can assume that part is true

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

Untrue; having their actual account name gives that much more of a chance to avoid them in other exchanges. Not a guaranteed chance, because mod socks exist, but more of one.

Knowing who they are in order to avoid matching or filling pinch hits or treating? Also a thing. Assholery shouldn't be rewarded.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

They did not push back in the chat at all. Whoever posted here said nothing to defend the recipient on the server, their reaction was to run to coal to vent about it.

I don't understand why someone would be upset about something being posted to a semi-public locked server and react by reposting things in actual public. It makes zero sense.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

They're a coward.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

It stings when someone privately thinks server behavior crosses a line but won't speak up about it in response to actual behavior.

But a lot of servers are like that.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I think for someone who is a bit conflict averse it makes sense, and if it's motivated by dislike of EO maybe it makes even more sense.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I do want "exchange culture" to change, so everyone involved should step down and leave. Would be hell of a start imo.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC I thought it was cute and allowed me to move adastreia from “user I treated” to “block and DNM”! I just would’ve preferred to know earlier instead of seeing mods defend them and leak every single detail of the recip’s confidential EPH request.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

DC How confidential do you expect an EPH request to be if it gets granted?

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I would expect the fact I got an EPH to be not confidential at all. After all, an EPH post would go up.

However, I would expect the contents of the EPH request to be confidential. People might be able to find the rejected gift in the collection or do some sleuthing to figure it out, then try to guess if it hit a DNW, but it would be just that, guesswork.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve had a bad experience with this user before in the past in another exchange (not as a mod). It does not surprise me at all their piss poor boundaries got them in trouble.

Re: Mod Cabal

[(Anonymous)]

+1

They are kind of a mess and I don't think they should be modding exchanges if they can't act professionally.