No one is required to participate any year. MLs and volunteers are welcome and appreciated, but should feel free to take a year or ten off.
And OMG, are people going to stop writing and actively bellyache about current events happening in November? I quit the Nanowrimo Facebook page in 2016 and never rejoined. I lost about two days of writing in 2016 because of everyone arguing with each other. And I know people who were close friends who don’t speak to each other anymore.
There are very horrible people on both sides of politics and I am tired of them all bellyaching.
I’m doing Nano this year, but not an ABDL one. The idea started out as abdl but changed as it developed.
Political crap and one deranged relative and all his nonsensical sperging keep me off FecesBook.
I do appreciate the hardwork the nano staff do and overall try to keep things civil and fair. I tend to lurk on the forums alot, there’s usually some interesting amd entertaining threads.
Oh, CK, you poor, sweet, innocent child. If only you could see the threads on the NaNo forum as the members of the @staff group do.
Heather literally gave one key rule besides the obvious “don’t violate the community guidelines” and that was "no comments about the age, health, or cognitive ability of either candidate. Literally the first and second replies after mine showing how the Staff coloring on a post works? Someone mouthed off about Trump’s age. Second one after that, the same, but Biden.
But that’s all the behind the scenes stuff us regulars don’t see, so to me it looked calm. Reality is you mods/ admin shoveling all the shit before the regs see it, where as twitter and tumblr have regular shit piles every where.