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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.


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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Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
It also sucks when that treat doesn't actually meet the minimum requirements but the mods turn it into your main gift anyway rather than send you out for pinch hits. Now you have one thing, it's labeled as a treat, and your treat writer assumed you'd be getting something else so they weren't worried. Either you turn them in, and risk getting someone else in hot water for posting something that should have gone to Madness in the main collection, all for wanting to give you what they thought was an extra little fun treat, or you suck it up and say thanks and basically go without a gift that fills your request.

Mods could solve a lot of problems by emailing the treat writers and asking like they do in other exchanges.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
Or people could put treats that don’t meet the minimum requirements for a main gift in the Madness collection, like they’re supposed to. If you don’t want your treat to become a main gift, and also don’t want to wait to post it until the recipient already has a main gift, there’s a specific place for you to post it so it will definitely stay a treat!

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Coalie, you can't email someone if their only interaction with your collection is posting a work. You don't have their email address.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 02:42 am (UTC)(link)
NC If it's someone signed up, the mods have the email.

Also mods share way more info than they should. If you've ever done an exchange, they can see that, DM the mod of that exchange on the mod discord, and get your email that way.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ummmm I do not think that is common practice.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
+1

If someone asks me for the email of a person who signed up to my exchange one time, I'm going to tell them to fuck off.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yuletide mods do insane shit all the time.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I have no proof that they don't!

But also, not what was claimed, impossible to disprove.

Re: Can anyone tell which was the assignment and which was the treat?

(Anonymous) 2025-11-07 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
It's also against the AO3 TOS.