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coalie ([personal profile] coalcube) wrote in [community profile] coaltide2025-10-26 01:46 pm
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One Wank After Another

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.


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Re: Yuletide crimes

(Anonymous) 2025-11-06 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
That does seem unfair given that a lot of people get mod warnings for small mistakes like that these days and a chance to fix them no problem.

But the mods usually do those checks right after posting deadline. If you're editing after that you're accepting you're working without a safety line, by choice.

(The nyr isn't meant primarily as "punishment" though, it's meant as proof to both yourself and the mods that you're actually capable of writing a yt-qualifying story.)

Re: Yuletide crimes

(Anonymous) 2025-11-06 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and since you can search the collection for works shorter than 1,000 words, the mods probably do check under-wordcount works right away.

IDK, when I upload a fic, it's my responsibility to make sure it's all there and appropriate, same with making sure it isn't about my recipient's DNWs. If the work was too short after the deadline, then I wouldn't assume the author was going to fix it on their own, because they didn't notice the problem in the first place.

It could have gone a lot of different ways depending on how long coalie's friend took to respond and the tone of their reply.