/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>9997181
Oh and before I forget, thank you deeply from my heart for all my past teammates; y'all made the event work successfully. I hope you are around to hear this.

>>9997180
Oh and a majority of grinches from my years signed up for multiple gifts, so it only looked like there were more grinches than there actually were. Take that as you will.

TLDR:
>Being Santa is hard. Cut them some slack
>Wishlists used to be suggestions
>Interest and wish lists lining up is a matter of chance and not a guarantee
>Grinch’s will happen but you have seagulls who will volunteer to antirich without any compensation
>Don’t worry too much about Jfash vs Lolita vs Cosplayers; Share/introduce your interests instead.
>What is the point of the event? Hint: It’s about the giving not receiving.

Apologies for the essay. I just really love Secret Santa.

>>9997178
While I don’t honestly believe that my explanations can satisfy every concern, nor can I guarantee this event will be successfully. But I believe that is up to us as a board to come together to make the positive experience outweigh the negative ones.

I may not longer be Santa but I still love participating and am extremely proud of my incredible mediocre skills in making cards for you who I’ve lurked among for so many years now.

>>9997178
While I don’t honestly believe that my explanations can satisfy every concern, nor can I guarantee this event will be successfully. But I believe that is up to us as a board to come together to make the positive experience outweigh the negative ones.

I may not longer be Santa but I still love participating and am extremely proud of my incredible mediocre skills in making cards for you who I’ve lurked among for so many years now.

Filtering:
Use the tiny triangles near the labels of name, address, country, etc to filter out what you need.
To See Wishlist Easily:
highlight the Wishlist column, make sure wrap text option in the alighment group of the home tab is activated
then go to the cell group and click on format and autofit row height.

>>9997177
Grinches will slip through regardless of how many checks and balances we lay down. Try not to dwell too much about it. Just remember this is the RISK you are willing taking on an anonymous board on the internet.

And in the event where someone was grinched, we had always received countless volunteers during signup and after Christmas to join an Anti Grinch crew to give out gift freely.
Sadly, one of the regrets I have had throughout the years was being unable to follow through on putting that together for a multitude of reasons.
But if someone could follow through on that, maybe that’s a good solution and lower the hyperfocus on the negative aspects of Secret Santa.

>>9997176
We need to ask/remind ourselves

Is this event about the endless fretting about potential grinches, not even actual ones yet, and or not getting what we want

Or Is it the about being a part of the excitement in sharing our gifts and gratitude and anticipating your and other’s giftees’ reaction to your card and gifts on Christmas day?

>>9630163
Here are the stats from 2015.

in short
SS 15 - 50 participants
SS 16 - 93 participants
White day 16 - 40 participants

I'll try to better some better stats on the ratio of gifts that were grinched later.

I hope this assuage your worries. Unfortunatly being grinched is a possiblity in all the secret santas from all the boards. Its a risk you have to take when you participate. And as much as we try worry about gifts grinched, giving is the goal.

Last year gifts for general idea.
https://goo dot gl/photos slash Kz7PWXajM3z7ftmn8

Some stats.

Last year's helper here. Have handled over the blacklist/whitelist to this year's organizers as well as old documents.

Will be pushing to finish up the last two exchanges up and get the grinched anons their gifts.
If you have any questions about last year, email the old email.

Good luck new Santas!

Let me know if you did not receive a followup email.

>>9362701
I'm working my way down the list. I will get to you eventually. Please be patient.

>>9362448
Allow me to clarify, I am letting you know if all your gifts have been sent to you based on your previous inquiry.

Please think of the whitelist like a perk for successfully sending out your gifts on time.

>>9362133
That's up to who ever is organizing the event in question. I'd like to work on the next secret santa but I do not know if I should participate.

I can write a note next to your name, but I have no control if they would heed it.

>>9337380
can you email me so I can get to the bottom of this?

To give you guys an estimate, about 40 people signed up for this round. Stats will be up much later.

>>9359258
Doing followups on Anti Grinch and Blacklist/Whitelists are a new thing this year and so I've added it to the list of followup tasks for this event and future events.

Please excuse me for my lack of experience, for we created this program from scratch using only guidelines from last year's cgl ss and /a/'s secret santa.

Again, let me refer you to the Faq/Rules for White day event for changes that may apply to next year and that will reduce grinching:
http://pastebin.com/t9ZXuPen

In it we've made adjustments and clarified many things for next year's events. We are testing new things that hopefully will work out

>9359258
Doing followups on Anti Grinch and Blacklist/Whitelists are a new thing this year and so I've added it to the list of followup tasks for this event and future events.

Please excuse me for my lack of experience, for we created this program from scratch using only guidelines from last year's cgl ss and /a/'s secret santa.

Again, let me refer you to the Faq/Rules for White day event for changes that may apply to next year and that will reduce grinching:
http://pastebin.com/t9ZXuPen

In it we've made adjustments and clarified many things for next year's events. We are testing new things that hopefully will work out.

>>9359000
with the amount of time that they had to put thing together, White Day matches would have gone out much later.
I just help out with the emails.

>>9359010
>moving forward
Tonight for sure.

>don't need lists
I'm getting mixed messages on what you all collectively want. But here is what I've settled on and promised a long time ago.

>Anti Grinch assignments will be out tonight
>Anons will be individually emailed their status as whitelist or black list. If you do not receive an email, that mean you didn't make it on to either list.
>Late anons will be asked if they received their gifts. Because I have no way of knowing if they did.
>Grinch's assignments will be informed that their Santa was a grinches.

Is there anything else I am missing?

>>9359122
No, that's next on my list.

Matches are done, emails just need to be proof checked to make sure that everyone's information is accurate.

>>9358465
This is true. It should have been resolved months ago but I burned out and didn't ask for help or communicated to you guys.

>>9358176
I am sorry you guys feel that way. Please let me know how this event is badly run and I will try my best to correct it.

Whitelists are done, Black list is done too. I just need to email the people who were grinched.

>>9356815
We are having some logistics issues. Once their matches go out, I'll sort out the Anti grinch stuff.