About to cry

[pumpkinkingmod]

I don't know what is wrong.  I've run many exchanges, not just under this name.  I've never had so many issues in the past.  I went through almost the entire MCU section, I had figured out how I wanted to sort them out and everything.  I hit submit and they're all gone.  Even things that I hadn't accepted or rejected are gone.  Only a small handful of tags remain from it.  I've never had anything like this happen before.  I'm worried that tags from Silmarillion were lost as well (did you know 20 accounts nominated it).

Everything was almost done too.  All that was left was MCU, Tolkein, Dragon Age and a few odds and ends.  Then I just would have had to do the fixes and we'd be ready to go.

If you nominated something under MCU and it isn't showing up under any of the other related fandoms like then please post here with your characters.  If you nominated Silmarillion please post if all your characters are in the tagset.

Comments

[taichara]

I'm going to poke my co-mod about this also (because they did most if not all of the heavy lifting), but I wanted to at least note that you're not alone with recent experience with fuxxored AO3 nom tags.

We had (in August) tags disappearing, hopping fandoms despite being hand-placed, and even duplicating across two fandoms nominated by the one person (thus freezing their ability to add to their nom list).

I think something's gone massively screwy with AO3's exchange code, and getting worse.

[kalloway]

Co-mod checking in. *little wave*

Pretty much everything taichara said. I did e-mail AO3's support, though I didn't hear back til after nominations had ended and all I was told was that the exchange code is due to be reviewed and all the issues we experienced would be passed along to the coders.

I ended up having to hand-enter/re-enter quite a few nominations (and then edit) to get characters where they needed to be, etc. and even then had a lot of issues with wanderers. I am not 100% sure if anything disappeared, but we definitely had tags changing names and wandering after we'd approved them a very specific way to get them in specific spots. And a related fandom magically re-naming itself which broke a participant's nomination form midway through everything.

pumpkinkingmod, I offer all the sleepy hugs and support. You are doing a great job and I hope everything can be sorted out quickly.

[galfridian]

Dropping by to say that we had some issues with the tagset for Fandom Growth Exchange, too.