One Wank After Another

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A blank assignment is a funny thing, isn't it? When you have it, you don't appreciate it, and when you miss it, it's gone.

Wednesday 10 December: Default deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 17 December: Assignment deadline (9pm UTC)
Wednesday 24 December: Main collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 25 December: Madness collection works reveals (9pm UTC)
Thursday 1 January: Author reveals, end of event (9pm UTC)

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Comments

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

I'll reverse that and say dump Madness and put everything in the main collection.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Yup, agreed. The Madness collection is silly and anyone can learn to filter out shorter fics if that's what bothers them about Madness. No other exchange has a separate treat collection and Yuletide didn't used to either. It's time to go!

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty sure yuletide has had a separate collection for treats for as long as it's had collections at all, where ate you getting that?

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

dc

Back on yuletidetreasure, everything went into one archive with no separation. It was better.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Back on yuletide treasure, prompts didn't go public until like Christmas Day, and "stocking stuffers" were all clearly marked (which is why it was trivially easy to put them all in a different collection after the AO3 move.) The idea of "treats" that were indistinguishable from regular stories didn't show up until later.

I don't actually think most pro-madness people would complain if there was only one collection but all treats were required to be indelibly tagged as treats. Somehow I think most of the anti-madness people would hate it even more.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Prompts went public much sooner than that and there was no way to mark "stocking stuffers." Some people were writing 20+ treats and they weren't all written on Christmas Day. There was a Google doc posted here a year or two ago linking to the entire list of Yuletide stories from the old archive: title, word count, summary, author name, recipient name, which year, rating, and fandom name. Nothing about treat vs not treat.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

That's wrong though.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

What part are you objecting to? There was no tagging on the old site. The only way you'd know a treat was a treat was if the author's note said so.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Hard agree

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

Never thought about it before, but I agree. I usually forget about Madness. Many years I've thought "man, what a shame there was no (insert fandom here) fic this year, only to much later realize there was a ton in Madness.

It's bad for the writers whose stories don't get as much attention, and bad for readers who will have a harder time seeing them. Just pointless extra steps.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

+1000

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

People are agreeing with you so this is not an unpopular opinion!

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

LOL, you bring it up on yuletide_admin then.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

-1

Everything that's not an assignment should go to Madness.