The Dirty Energy Source

[heavensqueen]

Do you want to make a spreadsheet about spreadsheets?
Do you still need to figure out what two other fandoms you should request beside the only one you really want fic for?
Or are you trolling ALL the letter posts for placeholders, just so you can write those people some nice, dry coal?

We want to know all about it.

Comments

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

People argued a lot on those posts but they didn't actually take very many suggestions, and especially none that would make rules less byzantine and stupid.

The ethos this year seems to be "we'll ban a hundred actually tiny fandoms, be as obstructionist as possible, and make it utterly painful for everyone to figure out what's going on in order to keep anyone from requesting Clint/Coulson, never mind that anyone who wants to request Clint/Coulson will do it behind our backs anyway."

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Remember when they were going to make all fandoms have to be nominated twice in order to actively keep really rare fandoms out?

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

I still don't understand how this would have worked. I thought they couldn't see who nominated what fandom, so how would they know if something was nominated twice?

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Not a YT mod, but I mod another exchange and AO3 shows you the number of noms for each fandom. For example:

Orphan Black (x7)

That's what shows up for us but no indication of WHO nominated it.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

Oh man, that was such a fucking terrible idea.

Re: Change One Thing

[(Anonymous)]

*Shudder*