CPSS: CLOSED! D:

[HakureiSM]

If anyone receives socks, they're mine, and your partner is Pesco.

[Pesco]

If anyone receives socks, they're mine, and your partner is Pesco.

Oh u.

[Rin Kagamine]

FTR I'm posting tomorrow.

You're also posting today :V

[Pesco]

You're also posting today :V

And yesterday

[Rin Kagamine]

And yesterday

Nyo ho ho

[triangles]

Also more people need to sign up because as of last count 25% of the participants for the gift exchange live in the same house and I'm not sure if it'll be incredibly lame or incredibly awesome if MJP and/or I have to send something to the other via this.

[Shizumarashi Mayuzumi]

Also more people need to sign up because as of last count 25% of the participants for the gift exchange live in the same house and I'm not sure if it'll be incredibly lame or incredibly awesome if MJP and/or I have to send something to the other via this.

Hilariously lame, perhaps?

(And FWIW I've signed up already.)

[Rin Kagamine]

And I still don't have excuses from anyone not signing up, save one.

What's also surprising is that no one from the Moderator team has posted in the thread at all, save Letty, but I already know that he isn't participating.  Considering that this is being run on their board, one would imagine that they would at least acknowledge it.

[Pesco]

And I still don't have excuses from anyone not signing up, save one.

What's also surprising is that no one from the Moderator team has posted in the thread at all, save Letty, but I already know that he isn't participating.  Considering that this is being run on their board, one would imagine that they would at least acknowledge it.

Yup, damn lazy buggers. Got no interest in marketing and all that.

[Kilgamayan]

I have no interest in a Secret Santa. Never have, never will.

I also haven't posted because I think trying to run a Secret Santa on a website is fundamentally flawed for two reasons:

- Secret Santas require a group of people that know each well enough to know what would be a good gift and what would be a bad gift. We may socialize off and on but we don't spend every day together, so we don't know each other as well we could. What if you buy candy for a diabetic, for example?
- Secret Santas require a group of people that have easy access to actually getting the gift from the giver to the receiver. That is notably not the case with a world-wide spread of internet forumites.

If you think you can overcome these hurdles, then more power to you for running this thing, but I'm just not interested.

[Edible]

...

I was going to be slightly more brusque than Kilga but he pretty much said exactly what I was going to say.

[Letty Whiterock]

- Secret Santas require a group of people that have easy access to actually getting the gift from the giver to the receiver. That is notably not the case with a world-wide spread of internet forumites.

And yet they work so incredibly well in other online communities with far more widespread individuals.

[HakureiSM]

- Secret Santas require a group of people that know each well enough to know what would be a good gift and what would be a bad gift. We may socialize off and on but we don't spend every day together, so we don't know each other as well we could. What if you buy candy for a diabetic, for example?

Who the hell would send candy overseas? :V
Also, cool because of good intentions. If I were diabetic and some guy sent me candy, actually thinking I'd find it cool, hey I'd find it cool.
And picking a gift one knows the other would like is really easy for us, considering it's a Touhou community, and it's members all tend to like Touhou.

- Secret Santas require a group of people that have easy access to actually getting the gift from the giver to the receiver. That is notably not the case with a world-wide spread of internet forumites.

That was already nicely organized by our friend Vic.

[Nobu]

I don't fault anyone for not wanting to participate, nor would I expect anyone to have to come up with an 'excuse' if they chose not to.

That said, it'd still be nice if we had a lot of people doing this. But hey, even if it's just a small number of people who choose to participate, it's still going to be fun for us, right?

[Rin Kagamine]

I don't fault anyone for not wanting to participate, nor would I expect anyone to have to come up with an 'excuse' if they chose not to.

That said, it'd still be nice if we had a lot of people doing this. But hey, even if it's just a small number of people who choose to participate, it's still going to be fun for us, right?

Really all I want is feedback.  I used excuses as a catch-all term, but since this is my first experience running a Secret Santa, I wanted feedback not only on rules, but what people thought about Secret Santas, issues they had, why they would or wouldn't enter it, things of that nature so that I could try and accommodate them.  When I first made the thread, I was fairly disappointed at the lack of interest there seemed to be.  There seemed to be at least a fair amount of interest in some kind of inter-forum activity, so I thought up the Creative Exchange in an attempt to bring in more of the user-base.  I had been very enthusiastic about running it, considering how active and involved they become on other forums, but turn-out for this has been quite tepid. 

I'm still planning to give this my all and do whatever I can to ensure that it goes off without a hitch, but the more feedback I get from people of any kind, the more I'll be able to work with to improve this one/future ones should they occur.

[Fetch()tirade]

Hey, don't count me out just yet! It's just taking awhile to put my CE piece together.
I'm not entering until I'm sure it's perfect, so wait a little longer.

[HakureiSM]

Hey, don't count me out just yet! It's just taking awhile to put my CE piece together.
I'm not entering until I'm sure it's perfect, so wait a little longer.

Awesome. I'm not joining CE because I'm too stupid to get something nicely done in time, but still the whole idea is really cool.
Also, even if it's just a few people, it'll be a lot of fun.
I told my mother about it and she was like "oh wow".

[Rin Kagamine]

Hey, don't count me out just yet! It's just taking awhile to put my CE piece together.
I'm not entering until I'm sure it's perfect, so wait a little longer.

I'm not counting anybody out.  This is still going on, regardless of how many people sign-up, I was just making a follow-up comment to what Nobu~ had written.

[Lloyd Dunamis]

>3< Apologies. Thought of replying yesterday, but I wasn't sure how to deliver it.

Not that I'm not interested in joining. I'm just not committed to make stuff for someone, and I'm usually late >_<.

Following a few more, and accurate, reasons I'm unable to put in words.

[Pesco]

How about buying stuff for someone?

[HakureiSM]

What Pesco said. I too don't feel like making something for someone, because it's too much work for a high risk.
Still, I can buy something cool, and be nice to someone, can't I?

[Pesco]

Packed and ready to send! Address censored of course.

Edit: Back from the post office. All my mail for christmas is sent. If you didn't give me your details, you got nothing.

[Seventh Holy Scripture]

I'm in, and I don't even know most of you plebs 

I share not the concerns of Kilga/Edible since I always thought Secret Santas were an excuse (much as is most gift-giving) to force your interests upon somebody else or else unload something you're not interested in anymore. Thus I'll be sending something I already have around the house (though not complete junk, that would be rude. Maybe a volume of manga or something.)

Hell, last time I did one of these I got a freaking Steel Angel Kurumi live-action DVD. And it unexpectedly turned out to provide a night's riotous entertainment on IRC four years later. So if I get a gift I can't possibly imagine having use for or interest in, I'll just shrug it off and consider that I might change my mind later.

Paying 5bux for shipping doesn't seem like a big deal either. Maybe if you're actually purchasing a proper gift it could be bothersome.


Am I supposed to say something else as a moderator or did you just want one of us to demonstrate some forum camaderie? I mean, I only run this place still 'cause I haven't found an exit strategy.

[Rin Kagamine]

Am I supposed to say something else as a moderator or did you just want one of us to demonstrate some forum camaderie? I mean, I only run this place still 'cause I haven't found an exit strategy.

Nah, you don't have to say anything else; any new post = threadviews++

Also, deadline for registration is 1 week from today!  :zomg:

[Rin Kagamine]

Naturally, six more days.

[HakureiSM]

Watashi no application wa in.


edit: Also, this thing needs more activity

[Rin Kagamine]

Watashi no application wa in.


edit: Also, this thing needs more activity

Definitely

[Pesco]

On the 41st day before Christmas, Vic Viper gave to me...

[Rin Kagamine]

On the 41st day before Christmas, Vic Viper gave to me...

41 focused movements
40 impossible spellcards
39 lunatic replays
38 UN Owen remixes
37 IOSYS flashes
36 doujin games
35 Aya h-doujins
34- Ugh

I can't do this, sorry :/

5 DAYS!

[Nobu]

41 focused movements
40 impossible spellcards
39 lunatic replays
38 UN Owen remixes
37 IOSYS flashes
36 doujin games
35 Aya h-doujins
34- Ugh

I can't do this, sorry :/

5 DAYS!

Goddamn. I hope you're my secret santa in that case. :3