Post by Sherlock Holmes on Dec 10, 2011 5:46:06 GMT
I honestly have no good idea how I'm going to do this.
I have it in mind that someone is going to force EVERYONE to do a Secret Santa gift exchange (via pictures or something). To those who don't know what that is, it's where you get the name of someone and you have to not tell them, but get a gift for them. Part of the fun is in the not knowing who picked your name.
Unfortunately this will require someone who knows all the names as I haven't found a random hat-simulator that works for more than one access and keeps track of who drew who without signing up for things. So either we need a completely neutral party (someone who isn't on the board) or I need to work this out more.
If you could please all try to find someone to be the hat who can create an account solely for the purpose and who will be willing to do this for us, that would be very helpful.
I have it in mind that when we begin our gift thread, we should have everyone present in some fashion--even if they only pop up when it's their turn to receive and give.
For example. First to go would be Anthea. She would give her present to, say, Jim. Jim would then post his reaction to receiving the present and then present his gift. (this will get a bit complicated if there's doubling-back as I'm sure there will be) After the gifts, we can mingle as we please, really.
If we don't find someone to be the hat by the 15th, I'm going to have issues. I'm thinking that on the 15th, the hat will send you all a private message saying who you must find a gift for. We shall start the party around Christmas (maybe Boxing Day)
Please spread the word to our not-so-active members as well. We need everyone to at least get a gift and give/receive theirs or this won't work.
Also kindly note that I've been having trouble using Twitter, so it's difficult for me to help spread my own word among the Twitter-originating segment of our group.
I have it in mind that someone is going to force EVERYONE to do a Secret Santa gift exchange (via pictures or something). To those who don't know what that is, it's where you get the name of someone and you have to not tell them, but get a gift for them. Part of the fun is in the not knowing who picked your name.
Unfortunately this will require someone who knows all the names as I haven't found a random hat-simulator that works for more than one access and keeps track of who drew who without signing up for things. So either we need a completely neutral party (someone who isn't on the board) or I need to work this out more.
If you could please all try to find someone to be the hat who can create an account solely for the purpose and who will be willing to do this for us, that would be very helpful.
I have it in mind that when we begin our gift thread, we should have everyone present in some fashion--even if they only pop up when it's their turn to receive and give.
For example. First to go would be Anthea. She would give her present to, say, Jim. Jim would then post his reaction to receiving the present and then present his gift. (this will get a bit complicated if there's doubling-back as I'm sure there will be) After the gifts, we can mingle as we please, really.
If we don't find someone to be the hat by the 15th, I'm going to have issues. I'm thinking that on the 15th, the hat will send you all a private message saying who you must find a gift for. We shall start the party around Christmas (maybe Boxing Day)
Please spread the word to our not-so-active members as well. We need everyone to at least get a gift and give/receive theirs or this won't work.
Also kindly note that I've been having trouble using Twitter, so it's difficult for me to help spread my own word among the Twitter-originating segment of our group.