Yesterday, I was searching wordcounts on Nanowrimo and somebody had written 900,000 words. This is, of course, impossible. How can you type 900,000 in one day? So I figured this person cheated and didn't think much of it. This morning, I checked the word counts again. This time, the person who wrote the most was at 49,999. Again, pretty much impossible, but I figured whoever was in charge of the website had written some code to exclude anyone over 50,000 who were obviously cheating.
I tried to check word counts this evening, and low and behold, the option of searching via word counts has completely disappeared. And a good thing too. The people on the forums were already complaining in earnest about these cheaters. In a way, people who are already "finished" are demoralizers--the only satisfaction a person derives from Nanowrimo is writing at least 50,000 words in one month, there are no other prizes.
Edit: Nevermind about the word count search function, it's still there. The Nano site has been really slow and quirky today.
