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chocolateboxcommAll creators should now be revealed! Congratulations everyone on another successful Chocolate Box.
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One of the things that came up during nominations was that some of the relationship tags were, in the eyes of some people, potentially in bad taste. Our default position is (as it has been in all years) that we are not going to be rejecting relationship tags unless the tag includes the nomination of a real life child in a RPF fandom. That said, given the sheer number of complaints we got this year, we thought that we should open this for discussion. Should we continue to allow essentially all nominations? And if the answer is "no", what criteria should we be using?
Talking about nominations, it's looking like the change in numbers worked for the better - we went a lot longer this time before the admin console started to break down, and we didn't get the complete shutdown from the previous round. If you have suggestions for nomination numbers, we're interested to hear them.
Finally, we remind you all that anon comments are screened by default, but will be unscreened if you include your AO3 name.
A reminder to those we had to default at deadline, you are required to complete your assignment before you can sign up next year. If you're not sure whether you were defaulted by us at deadline or not, please email us at chocolateboxmod@gmail.com so we can check.
Now is your opportunity to provide feedback! We will not be commenting (unless we are asked a direct question), but we will be reading!
One of the things that came up during nominations was that some of the relationship tags were, in the eyes of some people, potentially in bad taste. Our default position is (as it has been in all years) that we are not going to be rejecting relationship tags unless the tag includes the nomination of a real life child in a RPF fandom. That said, given the sheer number of complaints we got this year, we thought that we should open this for discussion. Should we continue to allow essentially all nominations? And if the answer is "no", what criteria should we be using?
Talking about nominations, it's looking like the change in numbers worked for the better - we went a lot longer this time before the admin console started to break down, and we didn't get the complete shutdown from the previous round. If you have suggestions for nomination numbers, we're interested to hear them.
Finally, we remind you all that anon comments are screened by default, but will be unscreened if you include your AO3 name.
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Date: 2019-02-21 12:42 pm (UTC)For those of us who do enjoy questionable content, being able to match on it via specific ship tags (especially in original works nominations) is very helpful.
Additionally, I think it would create far more work for you, the mods. You would need to double-check the ages of any characters, as well as the background of any given ship. Is Kilgrave/Jessica Jones acceptable? If yes, why not rapist/victim in Original Works? If you're throwing out Father/Daughter in Original Works, then I'd expect Zeus/Athena to be kicked out too. And are "John Smith/Jane Smith" a married couple, siblings, father/daughter, or do they just coincidentally share a last name?
You shouldn't have to google every single ship, that's way too time consuming. So keeping the current system is better for everybody, IMO.