Welcome: the Re-Welcoming

[morbane]

This is an informal community for chat about Yuletide, which was started up by participants and has since been passed over to mods. Official announcements are given at yuletide_admin. See also Discord chat.

There is a LiveJournal equivalent at yuletide.

2025
Recs Index Post
AFK Post
Reading Bingo game
Reveals Post

Letters Post
Mini-challenges tag
App (showing nominated tags and letters, and soon, requests)
Yuleswaps Tag to follow swaps updates!!

Fandom Promo Post| Spreadsheet

Beta Volunteer Post | Spreadsheet


2024
Reveals Post
Rec Index | Reading Bingo
AFK Post
Beta Post
Fandom Promotion Post
YuleSwaps Hub for Candy, Books, and Drinks Swaps
Yule Card Swaps Post
Letters Post
Mini-challenges tag
Round-ups of canon types in the tag set: short stories, podcasts and other audio series, tennis-related fandoms, five-minute fandoms...

2023
App
Promo post
Letters post
Book, Candy, and Drinks Swaps Post
Mini-challenges tag
Beta post
Away-from-Keyboard post
Recs index post
Reveals post

Comments

[swan_tower]

Would it be possible to add the master index post to the sidebar? It won't be on the front page for much longer.

[morbane]

Done, thanks!

Trouble w/sign-up

[(Anonymous)]

I signed up, but it's saying that it's invalid and I'm not sure what I did wrong. My username is salazarastark. What's the problem?

Re: Trouble w/sign-up

[morbane]

Hi,

Looks like what happened is the Archive glitched when you submitted your sign-up, and it submitted two of them. That prevents you from editing after. I've deleted one, so you should be able to edit your remaining one again!

If you have a further problem, please let us know at one of the admin journals (yuletide-admin.dreamwidth or yuletide-admin.livejournal) or by email - we may not pick up queries at this journal as quickly.

Re: Trouble w/sign-up

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, thank you so much!

[lovepeaceohana]

Is there a Discord server or equivalent chat room for writers, hippos, betas, etc.? I think I remember there used to be an IRC chat but I'm not sure whether that's still around.

[morbane]

Hello, yes, there's a Discord. The IRC chat still exists but is not frequently used.

There are links to both here:

https://archiveofourown.org/collections/yuletide2018/profile#resources

[lovepeaceohana]

Excellent, thank you! :D

Yuletide 2023

[fabrisse]

Hi --

It looks like nominations can start this Monday. Is there going to be a Promo Post where we can flesh out characters or see if someone else is already nominating something so that we can go with another 3 nominations?

In the past, I've found those posts very helpful, and they're usually up before the nominations start.

Thank you all for all your good work. Let me know if I can help.

Re: beta post?

[morbane]

Hello,

Yes, there will be a beta post soon. :) Last year's volunteer handed it on to a new volunteer and I've been in touch with them recently.

Regarding Discord, I understand your concerns - I have a similar issue with the spreadsheet, actually, since most of the google suite is blocked at my work. However, the discord Hippo system allows someone to log in at a time of their choosing, leave their details with an intermediary, and log off again, so I hope it's workable as a back-up option.

Separately, it looks like you're past the point where it would be most helpful, but if lack of details from your recipient is a problem in future, you are welcome to email yuletideadmin@gmail.com to ask your recipient for some likes. You can also look up the person's name on karanguni's request-scraping app here: https://autoao3app.fandom.tools/#/everything to see if your recipient has signed up to previous exchanges and posted details that may give you an idea.

I appreciate you avoiding specific identifying details but since you mention the number of requests your recipient made, their lack of letter, and the approximate length of your work, I will screen your comment. I hope this answer is helpful - please feel free to follow up at yuletideadmin@gmail.com.

[likeadeuce]

is there going to be a specific nominations coordination post this year?

[morbane]

Sure, if someone puts one up! You can see past posts & spreadsheets posted by various people at this tag:

https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/tag/nominations+trading

[likeadeuce]

So to clarify, this isnot something the mods do

[morbane]

Yes, thanks - if no one is able to put up a post, we can, but we don't currently have the capacity to update the spreadsheet. Happily, someone in Discord just now was talking about putting one up, so watch this space.

ETA - it's up now!

[likeadeuce]

Oh thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

Hi!

Because of recent happenings in regards to mod misbehavior in a different exchange, it's come to light that there exists a discord group that is ostensibly for exchange mods to support each other, but in practice is used to mock exchange participants.

I would like to know:

- are any yuletide mods members of that server?

- what are the rules and standards for yuletide mods? Are there explicit rules against that sort of behavior?

- how are emails to the yuletide mods treated? Are there explicit rules about not discussing these with people who are not yuletide mods?

- are there explicit rules about not trash-talking participants, either in private or in semi-public discord servers?

[yuletidemods]

Hello! While we won’t comment on our volunteers’ membership and activity in other servers, we’re happy to explain how we handle participant communication.

The Yuletide volunteer team does agree to a code of conduct that prohibits disclosing private information outside our working server. Only our main mods (currently Isis, Morbane, and pendrecarc) have direct access to the email. We don’t share participants’ personal information, such as details of unreviewed works or non-public correspondence, except with volunteers. We start those conversations with an assumption of good faith and, if a problem arises, aim to find solutions.

Only in extremely rare cases have we discussed individual participants in specific ways outside that server. Those are situations where we dealt with unusually disruptive rule-breaking that we felt other exchange moderators might need to be aware of.

We think it's reasonable for participants to know how we handle private communications, but this unofficial comm is probably not the best place to communicate it, so we plan to take some time to workshop a public statement of our expectations for the mod team and post it to the collection Rules and FAQ page.

Editing a promo post

[spectrophile0]

Hello! I need to edit the content warnings in one of my promo posts (this one: https://yuletide.dreamwidth.org/349432.html?thread=5700344#cmt5700344) but I can't seem to edit it anymore, possibly because it's been commented on? Can a mod help me edit the warnings? Thank you!

Re: Editing a promo post

[morbane]

Hi, sorry I didn't see this! Mods also can't edit a comment that's been replied to - we suggest you either delete the promo post and repost it, or simply reply to it again.