The 2008 CS Christmas Card List - Discussion

[iradney]

I got a beautiful card from Ree.
*HUGS*

[Melxb]

Postage in the US is going up another 2 cents in April, so I'm planning on splurging and buying a roll or two of the forever stamps specifically for THIS Holiday Card Exchange. It's the only reason I buys stamps anytime during the year.

I've also learned my lesson---no square envelopes! Some people got cars from me with FOUR stamps on them to cover all sorts of postage. Next year--only one stamp!

[MadMike]

Postage in the US is going up another 2 cents in April,

It is, but they have a good reason for jacking up the price. It's a year that has a number in it. /sarcasm

[Supermarket Slave Girl]

Thank you for the lovely card Ree

[One-Fang]

I have been remiss in acknowledging cards.

Thank you to:

Ree
Protege
Evil Queen
Prb
Nakajo

I tidied up and counted, and I have 40 cards. From a list of 65, that's not a good figure. I know one or two said they had to back out for whatever reason, and that's fine, at least they had the guts to come and say so and I don't hold anything against those ones, but what happened to the other 20+? Did everyone else get such a low response or is it a problem with the post system down here in Godzone?

[DesignFox]

No, it's not a problem with your post. If you check my last tally I was missing about 16 or so.

[Aethian]

Again...if anyone is missing mine, which I don't think so, please let me know.

[Kiwi]

15 people didnt send cards to me, I can understand 1 or 2 getting lost in the post but not over ten cards.

I want to say a big Thank You to JM for doing the list, I hope you know JM that the people who did contribute really appreciate the hard work you do for the list.

I'm really sorry to see so many people didn't stand behind their word.

[Ree]

So, who didn't send their cards?

Of those, who actually contacted Juniormintz with a reason for not completing them?

[JuniorMintz]

Ok, that is it, I'm officially calling it a wrap for the year 2008.

If you still haven't sent out your cards, shame on you. Seriously, as long as I'm putting my *Valentines* away I think I'll put away Christmas too. It feels weird looking at Christmas stuff when the trees in my front yard are blossoming.

As always, to those who participated, thank you, and thank you for all the kind words some of you have given me.

To the 14 slackers who took advantage of the kindness of myself and everyone else who joined? You should be embarrassed. I'd be less angry if even ONE of you had had the decency and manners to at least PM me ahead of time. (One of you sent a PM to a mod, who then had to forward it to me- )

I'm especially mad because there were people who tried to join after the cut off date and despite my better judgement, I let them in anyway. They repaid me by not following through and making me look like an ass.

All I ask is that if you make a promise, follow through, and if you can't, TALK TO ME. I don't know how people like that function, I really don't. If you no showed at your jobs like this, your asses would be canned. To be honest, if I were you I'd have felt like a total douchebag every time I opened my mailbox.

Anyway, like I said, I'm calling it a year. Thanks again to my friends, and my apologies for the high rate of no shows. Next year, there will be changes which I hope will prevent this.

And I know it's a bit early, but Happy St. Patrick's Day in advance!

[DesignFox]

Well I don't think I directly stated it, so thanks JM!!! I had a lot of fun with this. (I don't blame you for the no-shows, so please don't feel like you have to apologize for them)

It's too bad your fire and brimstone hasn't seemed to have any effect on the people who flaked out on us, but I guess no matter where you are, or who you talk to, you're gonna have slackers.

Thanks again to everyone who sent out cards and made this fun! I really enjoyed it.

[BookstoreEscapee]

So, who didn't send their cards?

Of those, who actually contacted Juniormintz with a reason for not completing them?

Well, I can't answer your second question, but if you go back to my post here I tallied up everyone I did and didn't get. Not necessarily definitive, and doesn't rule out the possibility that one or two of the missing got lost in the mail, but it seems in line with the numbers that other people have said they are missing.

[One-Fang]

I am curious about the changes - I'm not sure how you could minimise no-shows. Can you elaborate, or is it a secret till it happens?

I would hope that the no-shows are not very active members on the site. If they're active members, constantly posting and discussing, I would have some major problems with that. So maybe one way to reduce, if that is the pattern, is to say that unless you've made something like 200 posts in the previous year or something, you can't go on the list.

It's sad to see, yet AGAIN, people begging to go on the list past the cutoff date and then bailing.

[JuniorMintz]

I can't really elaborate much at this time as to some of the changes I'm kicking around, but I will say that the post count thing, I'm really going to have to think about. Not only do I want to take into account people who post a lot in OT and thus have lower post counts (like yours truly!), but I *really* don't want to do anything that will encourage post padding.

[Ree]

So maybe one way to reduce, if that is the pattern, is to say that unless you've made something like 200 posts in the previous year or something, you can't go on the list.

That's an interesting idea, and it's one that has certainly been batted around, but it's not an accurate or fair way of handling it, either, since off topic posts don't count. A person could have well over 200 posts in off topic, but only a few in the main forums, so they would only show as about 10 or 20 posts.

We have a few months to work it out, and we are always open to suggestions, though.

Post count isn't always a reflection of participation, either, since there were a few with low post counts who did send out their cards.