Should we continue to post to LJ?

"And" Matching - Authors Must Include All Selected Characters

DNWs - Please Put These in Your Sign-Ups

Placeholders

Thank you again for Yuletide 2019!This is a post for feedback on the 2019 round. Feel free to raise your own topics (could you find things you wanted to find? Were specific things more confusing, or maybe even less confusing, than in previous rounds?), but we also have some topics we wanted to bring up.We last asked this question in 2018 ( DW LJ ) but participation on the community has dropped further. We would like your views about whether it is time to cease posting to LJ. We will, of course, continue the notifications on Twitter, Tumblr, and Discord.We don't propose changing the rules, but we bring it up because every year, people have trouble with this -. It bears repeating.When writing a story for the Yuletide collection, you must include every character requested unless your recipient explicitly states in their sign-up form itself that characters may be left out, and in what circumstances. This applies to all sign-ups, regardless of the logistical difficulty of characters interacting. As a recipient, if you would be happy with a subset of characters for a particular story idea, you must expressly say so in your sign-up.Do Not Wants (DNWs) must go into your sign-up and not just your letter. We do not enforce DNWs that appear only in letters. This is because sign-ups are visible to your writer immediately upon sign-ups going out, and because we check assignments against sign-ups to see if any DNWs have slipped through. If a DNW is for a canon event/theme/etc, please also explain how you want that handled (i.e. no mentions, canon level is fine, etc.).These issues with character requests and with Do-Not-Wants aren't new; we bring them up for discussion because we want people to get stories that include all the characters they expect and don't contain DNWs. Which is also, we believe, what you want. So let's talk about this so that we're all on the same page.Placeholders are works that are incomplete. Incomplete works can be (but are not limited to): a story missing half the tagged or requested characters, a story with a giant cliffhanger, a story without a beginning, middle, or end, a story that contains author notes about unwritten scenes, a story that consists of text copied from elsewhere, or a story that you have previously written with the names changed. These are not hypotheticals; they are all things that we see each year.Placeholders are against the Yuletide rules. Do not post them. If you cannot post a complete story by deadline, please default.Thank you in advance for your feedback!The next admin post, before the middle of the year, will probably be a draft schedule for Yuletide 2020.