The rest of the exchange year...

[chock_coal_ate_bawks]

...is worth wanking over, too.

Discuss Chocolate Box, Age Gap Exchange, Unusual Bearings, etc.

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Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

That was before AO3 got even shittier, tho. ChocolateBox noms this year were so big they nearly broke it so even the mod couldn't access the tagset.

Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

Was that because everyone was trying to outdo themselves with 6 million snowflakey original works nominations, though?

Yuletide has always had a massive tagset, but notably has neither orig works or crossovers. It usually does okay. (I mean, relatively okay, there's a reason for the lengthy clean up period after noms close.)

Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

Gr8 b8 m8

Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

Tagset search has the following:

Yuletide 2017: Fandoms: 3216 Characters: 13074
Chocolate Box 2018: Fandoms: 1341 Relationships: 14866

So Yuletide had a lot more fandoms, but they're not far apart in overall size.

I'm not sure how true this is, but I also heard that Chocolate Box nominations happening during the week of Yuletide reveals and various school breaks, aka a very big week for Archive demand, was part of the problem.

Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

15 thousand relationships wtf.

For less than a third of the participants yuletide gets. I wonder how many were actually requested and written.

Re: Less than a month to nominations

[(Anonymous)]

CB 2018 - 1139 works
Yuletide 2017 (including Madness) - just over 2500