[S] Secret Santas?

[Wind Vestal]

I like the idea, but to stop a huge wave of SoQs being made at once, maybe each person can only get a certain amount? Like, 3-5 per person.  

[ATh e a r t]

Invader Tekk

I like the idea, but to stop a huge wave of SoQs being made at once, maybe each person can only get a certain amount? Like, 3-5 per person.

See, the thing is, I don't really understand what's wrong with the current system.

Rapid worked on the plushie template so -everyone- can color as much as they want and for whoever they want. The raffle is an ADDITION to the gifts. The Soquili staff wanted to spread -more- holiday cheer so they did more than what they guaranteed in the beginning.

The main idea posted in this thread is about giving the chance of giving an actually Soquili away, which adds -loads- more work on the staff.

Think of it this way:
Even if a person could only order a limited amount, say 2 per person, how many people will come and order than? If there were 200 people that wanted to order 2 each for their friends, that's already 400 Soquili that would need to be colored/certed. You know as well as I that -many- people want pets from this shop.

Please, I understand the desire for more Soquili to be in circulation, but you really have to think about what the colorists have provided so far and are still continuing to provide. I'm pretty sure the CC'd CYO plushies have gone above 200 colored.  

[Tamiko_kitten]

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Invader Tekk

I like the idea, but to stop a huge wave of SoQs being made at once, maybe each person can only get a certain amount? Like, 3-5 per person.

See, the thing is, I don't really understand what's wrong with the current system.

Rapid worked on the plushie template so -everyone- can color as much as they want and for whoever they want. The raffle is an ADDITION to the gifts. The Soquili staff wanted to spread -more- holiday cheer so they did more than what they guaranteed in the beginning.

The main idea posted in this thread is about giving the chance of giving an actually Soquili away, which adds -loads- more work on the staff.

Think of it this way:
Even if a person could only order a limited amount, say 2 per person, how many people will come and order than? If there were 200 people that wanted to order 2 each for their friends, that's already 400 Soquili that would need to be colored/certed. You know as well as I that -many- people want pets from this shop.

Please, I understand the desire for more Soquili to be in circulation, but you really have to think about what the colorists have provided so far and are still continuing to provide. I'm pretty sure the CC'd CYO plushies have gone above 200 colored.

I agree with this.

Because colouring an actual soquili is a lot of work on the coloursits, and there are a lot of people in soquili who would want to give stuff away to their friends. Plushies are a fantastic way to do this because whether or not they get turned into a real soquili you still have an adorable gift from a friend or a kind stranger and it's a wonderful token of holiday spirit. Being turned into a real soquili is an incentive yes but not the main idea behind the gifting of plushies.  

[Strait Jacket Girl]

-Wiggles- To go back to the opening post about the SS. The only Secret Santa's that I've seen posted are the Staff Secret Santa Drop-Offs. The others are CYO or were the Second Chance Raffle guys.

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I know king Mentioned that that might have been what you were seeing, so I just wanted to let ya know <3

Personally I think the CYO is all that's really needed, cause it allows us (as the customers) to create a plush that we like to our own accord and the best of our abilities, and in regards to the SS I think it'd add more fun for the customers however I think it'd be more of a hassle upon the colorists rather then fun for them -nods- And we love the colorists, and with them already being so nice to us during the holidays with the plushies I think It's a little much to ask them to spend more time away from family and such on their down time -nods- Though that's just my opinion, tossin' my two cents into the well  

[Graceangel]

Having been around soquili for a few years, It seems to me that there have been other events where you could make plushies for other people, but the quantity of how many were turned into real soqs were DRASTICALLY lower. I think what they've done this year is just phenomenal.

Yeah. If you read the information on the certs, you can clearly see that the staff had their own secret santa thing. I don't see where there is anything wrong with that. People who work in any venue should reserve the right to have that with their co-workers if they like. beit soquili or any other type of b/c.

and whoever said they didn't get a cyo plushie turned into a real soq, guess what. there are quite a few of us out there who also didn't. You're not the only one, but the good news is that the CC'ing will be going on through the end of January. So, take heart. Also, they are going to be CC'ing some semi's from a thread in teh contest forum. Just because we didn't get something yet doesn't mean we won't.  

[StarieMichie]

ATh e a r t

1. I'm pretty sure the point of giving CYO plushies were to have something so you can give to your friends. The main part is definitely -not- the plush-turned-soq stuff. Yes, the colorists have gone above and beyond this year, but the plushies are supposed to help spread the holiday cheer, not increase someone's chances of getting a soq.

2. What if you have more than 10 friends that want to do a plushie for you and they want to enter it? Doesn't that suck if it puts a limitation on how many you can get in the raffle? Plus, with the creator of the plushie putting the plushies in the raffle, how would they know how many plushies a person has in the raffle already?

Don't those two statements contradict? LMAO. xd

I would guess they made a cap so that someone couldn't abuse it and give themselves or their friends piles of entries into the raffle. But it also hurt because there were some who were nice enough to make plushes beyond the limit out of just kindness for those who hadn't gotten them yet, but those ones didn't count for them in the raffle. I would have just liked to see a way where others could make plushes for other people who wanted them, but weren't entered in the raffle yet, and had them count in the raffle. That's all.

Forgive me if that doesn't come out as clear as I'm hoping it does, I'm not the best at explaining things.

((And I was trying to make a joke when I mentioned I didn't get one, lol. I'm totally fine if I don't get one, I love the Soq I have. Sorry if that came out wrong.))  

[Revolutionary Roniel]

I wouldn't be a fan of giving people free reign to enter as many plushies as they wanted into the raffle. It might lead to... well... plushie spam.  

[Kamiki]

Maybe you can enter as many plushies as you can color, but limited to being only able to COLOR one plushie per person?

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As in, if you color 30 different plushies, you could give them to 30 different people. You couldn't give all 30 to the same person.  

[StarieMichie]

That's why I suggested the "10 raffle entries per a person" thing. But, only being able to have one plush per a person count as an entry works really well too.

I mean, none of us knew that they were going to be awesome and give out this many pets, so it would have been nice for all the overflow plushes that were colored for people who asked for them to have counted as raffle entries also.  

[ATh e a r t]

StarieMichie

Don't those two statements contradict? LMAO. xd

I would guess they made a cap so that someone couldn't abuse it and give themselves or their friends piles of entries into the raffle. But it also hurt because there were some who were nice enough to make plushes beyond the limit out of just kindness for those who hadn't gotten them yet, but those ones didn't count for them in the raffle. I would have just liked to see a way where others could make plushes for other people who wanted them, but weren't entered in the raffle yet, and had them count in the raffle. That's all.

Forgive me if that doesn't come out as clear as I'm hoping it does, I'm not the best at explaining things.

((And I was trying to make a joke when I mentioned I didn't get one, lol. I'm totally fine if I don't get one, I love the Soq I have. Sorry if that came out wrong.))

For mine, one is about plushies and one is about plushies that had a chance to be turned soq. I dunno how those contradict.

As stated before, the plushies were -not- because of the raffle but because, even though it wasn't a regular soq, the fact that someone still got a plushie was spreading some of the shop cheer. People that requested for a plushie was to request for just that: a plushie. NOT a chance at getting a Soq (at least, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the intention).

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Pretty much, I feel like if the colorists hadn't gone above and beyond this holiday season, people wouldn't complain about the rules and how the event was set up. You have to admit, they ARE doing a wonderful job. As someone else has stated, someone that they gave a plushie to that wasn't part of the raffle -did- get turned into a real soq.

Even if a plushie wasn't part of the raffle, don't you think that the event did spread a lot of Soq love? I feel like that was the point, not the chance of getting a CYO plush soq.  

[~Kiana_Nala~]

Well I know there have been secret santas even this last year from people that were not apart of the staff and in all honesty I do like the idea. However, I also believe that this will end up being available to the colorists friends or whatever. :/  

[LOLTERNATIVE]

I do believe those secret santas were from the semi-custom event thing? Though I could be wrong, but I'm pretty certain that's what they were from.

Also, it's a little unfair to the colourists to say that they would play into favoritism. They did a lot for us this Christmas and had two huge FREE events. The CYO event turned out 100400+s of new soq and then there was a semi-custom event that was also free.

Really, I don't think anything else needs to be added to the Christmas time. 400+ soq isn't enough? Really? :s  

[Graceangel]

All of hte above is true I think in all correctness. There were the 400+ of secret santa plushie conversions, then there was the semi's mind, bee, nilo did, and then there was also staff SS exchange. Also, a few staff members may have used hteir personal credits to get Christmas gifts for their friends. I think noone has any business to have any opposition to how hte staff use their credits. If htey wanna use them to give their friends something, that's their business. They are the ones working hard and earning hteir creds..

All this in consideration, even if they had only given away 200 or 100 soq's this past christmas... In previous years in events.. it's never usually been more than a few small handfuls that got an actual soquili out of it... so the number of people who didn't get ANYTHING out of it is extremely low. Then again, with as many people go to soquili; we need to be understanding that there might always be a few who fall through the cracks no matter what's done. it can't really be helped with how many people come here.