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

[(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.