Current mood:	Candy-Coated
Entry tags:	nanowrimo

Ladies and gentlemen, I bring you ... the first NaNoWriMo wank of the year!

If you've been to the boards since October, you'll know they've been slow, and that the search function has had to be disabled on and off several times to deal with the load. if you've been around for previous Octobers, you know this is pretty much par for the course whenever that year's boards go up and registration opens -- the site gets flooded, things slow down, the NaNo techies whack things with sticks until things settle down to normality somewhere in the first week of November, usually.

This year, however, this is all causing a smattering of wankery:

"I'm taking my toys and going home!"
"Me too!"
"Me three!"

Small, but tasty. Like aa petit four, in a way.

me, i just wish my t-shirt, mug and merit badges would get here already. woe.

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ladylauren
2007-11-04 09:34 am UTC (link)

The Nanowrimo community on LJ is also getting in on the action. Posts complaining about the site outage have been deleted. One of the mods (ramdonomo) bans people from mentioning it here.

The group owner (alison_sky) pops in here to inform the comm at large that she's not getting paid to run the comm, and also, 'This community? Is MY house. Perhaps you think it's a bit shabby, but you're here, and these are MY RULES. Get it? Got it. Gooood.'

To which dave256 responds, in a post that is sure to vanish soon,

'To the mods: Wow, I so don't care that you're not getting paid. I do all sorts of stuff for free! I don't use it as a badge of honor or a mother-esque guilt trip. There's no reason to berate us, or beg the comparison and evocation of Godwin's Law with Angry Mod Posts(tm).

Good luck. You really do have a (self-inflicted) thankless job. I'll thank you: Thanks, someone has to do it.'

...

On the bright side, the site is up and running again.

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