Holiday Decorations and Upcoming Dates

[Flyffel]

Ah, I miss TBT events.

Something is missing without them, even if they are often sort of inconveniently timed since many of them tend to overlap with the times when I'm not at home.

 

[Snek]

Yay Christmas is back! I always looked forward to the Advent calendar so I hope something like it returns!

 

[S.J.]

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Thank you to anyone who sent Christmas Lights so far! I will be sending out my own tomorrow, hopefully! I'm also very happy to be part of the Gingerbread Gang this year!

I will say that there is one thing I'm not particularly comfortable with, which is why I started out the post saying that it's a mostly welcome update. I noticed the mention of prohibiting political discussion. I can understand some of the appeal of this, but we are also in unprecedented times and being able to spread awareness of issues that can affect, have affected, and/or will affect members of the community and/or their loved ones feels valuable and important to me. From matters like US program cuts that can affect affordable food, housing, health care etc., to tariffs, to the censoring of the Internet like in the UK's Online Safety Act and which may come to the US in the forms of various bills like the Kids Online Safety Act. Heck, the Online Safety Act even directly affected the forum by making images hosted of imgur not work properly on the forum for members living in the UK. I know politics are a minefield, especially now, but prohibition feels like throwing the baby out with the bath water to me. I don't want to derail the thread though, so I might have to Contact the Staff if I think of more to say about it, though I've basically conveyed the gist of it. I'd also encourage anyone else with thoughts on this matter to follow suit and Contact the Staff (or whatever other method Staff prefers) instead of making this thread devolve into chaos.

I don't have anything concrete to add right now, but I did want to acknowledge that we've seen your feedback. If you do have anything else you want to share in the meantime, you're more than welcome to make a Contact the Staff thread at any point.

 

[S.J.]

Yay Christmas is back! I always looked forward to the Advent calendar so I hope something like it returns!

I can confirm that we won't have an advent calendar this year, but please do keep a look out for the Christmas surprise on the 25th December!

 

[boring]

Excited for a sweet holiday event [: Just what I needed.

On the prohibition of political discussion thing: I completely understand why you've come to this decision but I don't love it too much. Maybe I'm biased bc my entire life revolves around politics, but I find that banning political discussions can make a community accidentally very welcoming to less than kind people who fly under the radar (until they don't).

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I will admit I am sad that there will be no advent calendar this year but I am stoked for a New Years event!! Apparently I somehow never got the new years nook miles achievement in ACNH so mayhaps this event will remind me to do that finally