ADMIN: Fandom eligibility

[elynross]

There are thousands of people watching this comm, and they are here for the awesome of brainstorming and chat and recs and all the other fun satellite stuff that comes along with Yuletide each year. That makes us super-happy, and we welcome all the ways in which people make their Yuletides even more awesome and fun -- with the following exceptions

Comments

[lionpyh]

The thing is that I sympathize entirely with the BEGONE SPRAWLING FANDOM sentiment and agree that Yuletide should be kept to fandoms whose rareness is harder to question, in part the presence of a fandom in Yuletide serves as a signal boost, almost a rec for the fandom itself, and also for the obvious, oft-repeated reason of no one would write for it if not for this exchange. That is what I adore about Yuletide – that is, to me, the raison d'être of it, I understand the feeling of not wanting it muddied with, you know, the tromping boots of the hoi polloi. I am totally a cranky reactionary exclusionary Scrooge at heart. BUT. BUT BUT BUT. 1., As you have noted, if I do not want anything common!, I have but to not request it, and 2., it seems presumptuous not to mention ludicrous to imagine that the mods are not paying attention to this or that they are somehow working against the 'Yuletide spirit'. So as I said I believe it is a good idea to point out fandoms which our organizers may not have realized are quite unquestionably large: but once you have pointed them out you have done all the good you can, with words, do.

[boosette]

I sort of figure ... yuletide is a benevolent dictatorship, and what I see is the reading in of malice aforethought to their actions in striking/not striking $fandom.

Which is pretty ridiculous, especially when the choice is between a real possibility of No Yuletide At All vs Yuletide that Can't Please Everyone All The Time. (Possibly a false binary, but I know that if I were in charge I probably would have quit around 2005.)