Coal Rivalry

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All the things Coal said, running through my head.

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: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

It is absolutely what happened. It's not a glitch any more than it was a glitch when Tavina tried to lie about that in battleship to cover her ass. LOL

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Nothing funnier than someone being confidently wrong. There are multiple comments stating that the collection was anonymous originally, then later they began to reveal. I myself experienced this. But keep dying on that hill!

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

You want so badly for the mods to be innocent but they fucked up. Sorry for your loss.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, can confirm that my gifts were anon when I opened them and only got author names a couple minutes later, while what I wrote didn't get un-anoned. Definitely a glitch.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

That happens when very large collections are de-anoned, just like it happens that they don't all change from Mystery Gift to viewable at once.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

I'm sorry, but how many 'very large' aka Yuletide-scale exchanges do you run? Just wondering what qualifies you as an expert here.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

You can watch the rollout happen yourself next year in TOT and CH if you don't believe me.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird that people are arguing that specific point. Reveals and author reveals have been a slow incremental rollout the entire time we've been on AO3.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Then how do you explain so many works remaining anonymous? Here is a screencap of my AO3 gift email, for my gift which is only in the Yuletide 2025 collection, and is in no other collections:



If you're choosing to deny concrete evidence then I can only assume that you're not mistaken, and are just trolling. In which case, Merry Christmas, I guess?

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Collection size.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

DC

They are definitely trolling because there's no other reason to want to die so badly on the hill of a Yuletide mod misclicking. Even if that's what happened (and who knows), okay? Get over it, OP.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

It's the "mods did no wrong" faction who are determined to go dying on a hill here.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more the "mods did not do this one specific thing wrong" crowd, but sure. Why don't you run back to failmeme, where you used exactly the same phrasing?

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Nice try, Sherlock, but I didn't post anything about this on ffa.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

It is simply not that big a deal.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Exactly, it's not.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

CYRT

Okay, then why are you in a thread trying to paint this as a "catastrophic" fuck-up?

Believe me, there are far worse ways for a collection mod to mess up with an exchange of YT's size (even if that's what happened).

You're getting eye-rolls not because coalies are determined to defend the mods at all cost, but because you went into this with troll energy.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

The mods have specifically stated that the 'anonymous' box was and remains ticked. So unless coalie thinks they're lying, then they're just mistaken. Which is embarrassing.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

I do think they're lying, yes.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

+1

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Yikes @ you

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

If I thought the mods of an event would lie to my (internet) face about something, I would simply not do that event.

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

+2

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Why do you think they're lying?

Re: Deanonymitygate, cont

[(Anonymous)]

Intentional author reveals wouldn't have left us still anonymous in the story listings.