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-====== Double Blind What If ======
-A thread written from the perspective of someone in an ATL posing the question of what if history had gone as it in fact did go in OTL. Example: DBWI: What if the South had lost the Civil War?
-Thread participants are expected to act in-character, as if coming from the ATL world. The sense of the thread is revealing the ATL world by discussing how the A-ATL (that is, OTL) might look. Generally it is considered bad form to predict OTL accurately - instead, participants should come up with well argued and reasonable, but totally inaccurate, assertions for what OTL should look like.
-The phrase "DBWI" is sometimes used in a wider way to mean any sort of role-playing, including "Future Blind What If" to mean role-playing in a future setting. A contemporary use is expressed in [[Redem]]'s celebrated [[timelines:The Many Nations of North America]], aka "How did you live the war?"
-Much less commonly used is "Triple Blind What If" which has various definitions - one is e.g. TBWI: What if the South had won the Civil War (rather than being defeated in 1861?) to introduce two new layers of role-playing.
-[[offtopic:Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy]] is very fond of DBWIs, but his DBWI threads have a strange tendency to attract inexperienced members who fail to understand the concept, making him storm off in a huff.
-[[offtopic:Straha]] was infamous for hijacking DBWIs, and turning every DBWI-ATL into some post-nuclear exchange dystopia. Such is generally considered bad form.
-Recently [[offtopic:thecreeper]] has been responsible for a number of DBWIs that have either (i) degenerated into Ameriwank, and/or (ii) involved n00bs selectively discarding the details established in previous posts.
-Recently, people have seen DBWI used in other contexts and affixed it to a normal WI because they don't understand its meaning. ASBBWI has also appeared as a superfluous label for a WI in the ASB forum. [[MrP]] was last seen screaming and calling for his shotgun, only to break down in tears when [[Torqumada]] reminded him that Britons cannot have guns.