/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Hey all.

It's been proposed that /mlpol/ attempt something like the Secret Santa gift exchange that /mlp/ currently does. I'm sure many of us are already participating in the /mlp/ exchange, but it could be fun to have a second exchange for this site.

Right now there is nothing definite, but I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread where the idea could be discussed, and possibly hammered into a concrete project. It might be a bit late in the year to get something like this started, but if nothing else we could prepare and roll out the actual idea next year.

The main idea here is to gage how many people might be genuinely interested in participating in something like this, and to iron out any concerns that people might have. The biggest concern I foresee at the moment is that our group tends to be a rather paranoid bunch, and many anons might not be too keen on sharing private info. In a gift exchange there's basically no way to avoid sharing your with at the very least the event organizer and the person with whom you're exchanging gifts, but we can probably think up some ways to make things as secure and private as possible. A couple of ideas that were proposed were PGP encrypted email, or having Pupper whip up a simple submission form.

Another alternative is that we could try something more basic as a trial run, maybe an e-card exchange or something.

Anyway, I think the idea is at least worth discussing. The floor is now yours, Anon.