SECRET SANTA 2015: Sign-Ups [CLOSED]

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Published: Oct 18, 2015

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_{Hello hello! As of today, the 2015 SS sign-ups are open! And they'll remain open until October 31, 2015 at 8.00PM (EST/GMT-4:00).

What is a Secret Santa?
It's basically an anonymous gift exchange where a Santa will give you a gift, and you give a gift to another person as their Santa. Please note that this group's Secret Santa is not the physical kind where you send your gifts through the mail.

How to Participate:
→ Create a wishlist in your Journal to give your Santa an idea of what you want
→ Comment with a link to your wishlist
→ Wait for my reply and check the participants list for your name here: fav.me/d9dh81t

You will not be added until you give me the link to your wishlist. If three days pass and I don't respond, feel free to comment again saying you already commented but didn't get added. If the participant list gets long, search up your name with CTRL+F (COMMAND+F on Mac).

If your gift was late for the 2014 Secret Santa, then you cannot participate this year. I have a list of people who can't participate whether it be for just a year or ever again, so if you're one of those people trying to sign up, I will tell you you can't.

Want to be a Volunteer?
Volunteers will give gifts to the giftless after the deadline (TBA) passes. If you'd like to be one, please let me know and I will add you to the Volunteers list!

Rules:
→ Don't post your gift before December 24, 2015.
If you finish early, that's awesome! Just try to hold onto it until then. If you're going away for the holidays and won't have Internet access, let me know .

→ Label your gifts with [Anime-And-Manga SS] and submit to the Secret Santa 2015 folder when the time comes.
Labeling will make submitting to the 2015 SS folder a lot easier when the time comes. It won't be opened until sometime in the afternoon where I am, so just wait for it if it isn't up yet. Feel free to post your gift even if it isn't open yet on the 24th. This folder is only for this group's SS. If yours is from another one, do not submit to this folder.

→ Don't be a jerk by complaining about your gift or neglecting to give one.
Your Santa worked hard to give you a gift, so don't complain if you don't like it. Just keep it to yourself. Obviously there will be things that come up that are out of your control and because of it you won't be able to get yours up. Please let me know if something does happen. By this I don't mean give me all the details of what happened (because that's private and I'm not going to force you). But do let me know because you will be barred from participating in the future if you don't say anything and obviously it's not fair to you if it's due to an extenuating circumstance.

→ Group submission rules still apply.
They won't be lifted, so exposure of private areas is a no-go. If you want it for another SS, that's by all means fine with me, but not for this one.

Match-ups will be decided the same as last year. The names will be put into a randomizer first by me, and that new list will be given to someone to randomize again. When it gets kicked back to me, I will go through to check and make sure no one ends up being their own Santa. If this happens, then I'll swap with the recipient name under that person.

Notes will be sent out in the first week of November.

If you do not get your gift up on time, you will no longer be able to participate in this group's Secret Santa events in the future. If you are late, meaning you get your gift up after the deadline, then you won't be able to take part just for next year. Again, if something extenuating comes up so you can't get it up, please talk to me.

Everyone is welcome to participate, so feel free to spread the word around!

-- SakamotoNadeshiko, Founder

Edit I: There are three days left before sign-ups close. This is to refresh the Journal for others to see it!

Edit II: Today is the last day to sign up if you want to do the Secret Santa. Sign ups are open until 8.00PM (EST/GMT-4:00). When they close, I will leave a bolded comment down below as the cutoff. I will add everyone who hasn't been added yet after the sign-ups close. As long as you've posted the comment saying you want to join before/below the cutoff, you're all good.

Edit III:Sign-ups are now closed.

Edit IV: All notes have been sent out.}