It seems I can send as many messages to the NS mods as I like and not even have them read, and I had someone suggest I create a thread here to argue my case.
I've found NationStates to be a gladly tolerant and rational community. It's for this reason that I've stayed here for this extended period of time, and in that time I've made it something of my personal mission to spread better awareness of people like myself here. After finding a fair number of people in the same or similar boats as myself here, and discussing with some of them about the beneficial aspects of having a region to ourselves - that is, establishing something of a presence so that our existence and, just as importantly, our otherwise normality is clearer; and helping people who, as are many when it comes to difficult things about themselves they cannot change or choose, are confused and insecure. While I understand that NS is not a self-help group, I personally believe that this is what endears it to the establishment of a micro-community that is more commonly reserved, unfairly, to the underground. I feel that given NS's size, userbase, and the aforementioned tolerance I have seen, that there is no better place, and based on this feeling I put aside many hours of the last week establishing the region, making it presentable and inviting to a community, getting the word out, and most importantly assuring people that we deserve to have our place on NationStates.
Unfortunately, the moderators did not get the memo. Despite my insistence to their inbox that zoophilia, being defined as an affection, is not illegal anywhere in the world; that we had specifically prohibited lewd and illegal discussion in our WFE; and that we are otherwise adhering to rules and existing as an inclusive region, we were deleted without any conversation or even consideration of my messages.
It is, as I hope I have iterated, quite important to me and to a number of our former member nations that this region be allowed to exist as it was intended, not as a, "place to discuss concerns about animals," as our WFE was edited to a few days prior to our deletion and which implies a PETA launching point, but as a haven for a group of people who are typically relegated, misrepresented, unacknowledged to even exist by the large majority, and quite frankly have nowhere else on the internet to go; and without any illegal intent as defined either by laws in western nations or those defined by the NationStates moderating team. I would like to establish a discussion here until we can settle on an agreement. Thank you for your time and consideration.
"Zoo" is also a word used in the same way as, "Straight" or, "Gay": just a quick term that doesn't sound terribly scientific. My personal goal for the name would be to both attract the kinds of nations we are geared towards while also fitting with the wishes of the moderation team.
