Hogswatch is over: a few notes for next year.

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Note the first: Several prizes went unclaimed, either because I received no contact from the winners or because they did not contact me until well after the cut-off time of noon Pacific Standard time on Sunday, December 17th.  I am genuinely sad about this, but the rules were stated clearly from the very first post.  We chose all winners at the same time this year to try and make it less confusing for people, since this way they would only need to check the blog for the roundup once.  If you did not email me by noon Pacific Standard time on Sunday, December 17th, you will not be receiving a prize.  I’m very sorry.

(We actually allowed a few mails received in the early afternoon, since I posted a reminder on Twitter at 2pm, but the mails that came in today, Monday, will not be honored.)

Note the second: And this one applies to all giveaways managed here.  Previous giveaways were managed via LiveJournal, where everyone had to have a unique identifier.  Here…not so much, resulting in one day where three different people all legitimately tried to claim the same prize.  Oops.  So future giveaways will require a multi-word identifier, whether it’s “Bob B.” or “Alex in New York” or whatever.  This way, I can be sure the right person is claiming and receiving their prize, and we can all be a little less confused.

Thanks for a delightful Hogswatch, and thanks to all who participated.