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The '''Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination''' forum | The '''Diversions & Procrastination''' forum (formerly '''Games, Diversions, and Other Exciting Forms of Procrastination''' until September 2019, and '''How to Procrastinate Effectively''' before that) is a NaNoWriMo forum for diversions of the non-productive sort. Usually abbreviated "Games" due to its former title, it is a spinoff forum from [[Off Topic]]. First named "How to Procrastinate Effectively", this forum gained the Games name <!---2004?5?--->because the games posted here were posted to both this forum and [[Off Topic]] in the early years of the [[NaNoWriMo forums]]. Games is one of the busiest forums in the off season and typically has a higher post count than any other forum. | ||
In 2008, the Games forum was singlehandedly responsible for crashing the entire website when some of the longer threads reached a point where the indexing crashed the database. Because of this crash, the policy of [[Locked thread|locking posts]] of over 500 comments was instituted. The switch to [[Ruby on Rails]] in 2011 made this policy no longer necessary due to better stability. Since the move to [[Discourse]] in 2019, threads auto-close after 10,000 posts. Wrimos may start a new thread for the same game after the old one is auto-closed. | |||
The Games forum once lived in the [[Outside the Box]] container category and also held the role playing games until the [[Roleplaying]] forum was born in 2007. Today Diversions and Procrastination is a top-level forum containing three subforums: Roleplaying, [[Polling Booth]], and [[Sidekick Stable]]. | |||
The Games forum has built a close-knit community over the years, with some threads devoted simply to conversation and chit-chat sneaking into threads. That said, it's easy for new Wrimos to jump in because of the game nature of the forum. | The Games forum has built a close-knit community over the years, with some threads devoted simply to conversation and chit-chat sneaking into threads. That said, it's easy for new Wrimos to jump in because of the game nature of the forum. | ||
== Forum Description == | ==Forum Description== | ||
<blockquote>"If there's one thing more fun than working on your novel in November, it's not working on your novel in November. Come here for a relaxing mental vacation full of [[Bump thread|bumping]], [[Egregiously Erroneous Information|egregiously erroneous information]], movie-title tag, [[Word Association|word-association]], and much, much more."</blockquote> | <blockquote>"I Am Ridiculously Far Behind on My Word Count but The Simpsons are On and I've Only Seen this Episode Twice, OR: Tips on taking relaxing mental vacations from your work-in-progress" (?-2003-?)</blockquote> | ||
<blockquote>"If there's one thing more fun than working on your novel in November, it's not working on your novel in November. Come here for a relaxing mental vacation full of [[Bump thread|bumping]], [[Egregiously Erroneous Information|egregiously erroneous information]], movie-title tag, [[Word Association|word-association]], and much, much more." (?-2012-present)</blockquote> | |||
==Popular Topics and Threads== | ==Popular Topics and Threads== | ||
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* [[Thread killer]] and the [[Last Post]] | * [[Thread killer]] and the [[Last Post]] | ||
* [[Egregiously Erroneous Information]] | * [[Egregiously Erroneous Information]] | ||
* Corrupt a Wish | * Corrupt a Wish | ||
* Many others | |||
== Moderators == | == Moderators == | ||
=== Current Moderators === | === Current Moderators === | ||
* [[Heather Dudley]] (2008-present) | * [[Heather Dudley]] (2008-present) | ||
* [ | * The global [[moderator]]s (September 2019-present) | ||
=== Former Moderators === | === Former Moderators === | ||
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* [http://www.nanowrimo.org/participants/dichotomy6958 Dichotomy6958] (2007) | * [http://www.nanowrimo.org/participants/dichotomy6958 Dichotomy6958] (2007) | ||
* [http://nanowrimo.org/participants/jamey85 Jamey85] (2012-2013) | * [http://nanowrimo.org/participants/jamey85 Jamey85] (2012-2013) | ||
* [http://nanowrimo.org/participants/lauren-e-mitchell Lauren E. Mitchell] (2009-2015) | |||
* [http://nanowrimo.org/participants/nymphadoraliz nymphadoraliz] (2015-2016) | |||
* [https://nanowrimo.org/participants/wulfiethegreat WulfietheGreat] (2017-September 2018) | |||
* [https://nanowrimo.org/participants/nymphadoraliz nymphadoraliz] (October 2018-September 2019) | |||
== External Links == | == External Links == | ||
* [ | * [https://forums.nanowrimo.org/c/diversions-procrastination/22/none Diversions & Procrastination forum] (with subforums filtered out) | ||
[[Category: NaNoWriMo forums]] | [[Category: NaNoWriMo forums]] | ||