The Writers' Block

[Aja]

How about an issue for economically poor nations about pegging their currency to economic superpowers for inflation purposes? Obvious title "Knocking The @@currency@@ Up A Peg"

Did you just say "Knocking The Peg Up A Peg"?

[Bears Armed]

"harvest" the seals instead (government funding needed for the advertising campaign to sell the public on the idea of consuming seal products),

Seals hunting is/was practiced commercially in real life, so they're not exactly a fringe product. I think it was toned down mainly due to the seals becoming endangered species - which begs the question of would there be enough of them to threaten fish stocks?

In RL, although there’s been some ‘subsistence’ hunting of seals as food among peoples such as the Inuit, as far as I’m aware the commercial hunting of seals by members of ‘civilized’ cultures has historically been mainly — if not entirely — for their fur rather than their flesh: However it’s “harvesting” them as an alternative foodstuff, to supplement the reduced availability of large fish, that the speaker in that option would be suggesting… and I suspect that that would meet with consumer resistance, just as the attempt to introduce whale-meat to the British diet during WW2 (even though that was as an ‘off-the-ration’ item) did. And many species of seals don't have good enough fur to be worth hunting for that reason, such as those resident around Britain for example, so their numbers wouldn't have been reduced to 'endangered' levels by hunting.

cut the number of fishing boats (with over-fishing by them more to blame than the seals for this decline in stocks),

This runs into the trap of, if one character blames the seals and another blames the fishing boats, one of them has to be objectively correct and the other incorrect. Issues aren't supposed to have a "right" option.

… or they’re both partly right, but both partly wrong: Probably reducing the number of seals would leave more large fish available for the fishermen to catch, in the short term, but then in the long term the increasing numbers & effectiveness of the fishermen themselves would be a worse threat to the fish stocks.

[The Blaatschapen]

How about an issue for economically poor nations about pegging their currency to economic superpowers for inflation purposes? Obvious title "Knocking The @@currency@@ Up A Peg"

Or what about countries that don't have their own currency at all and just use the one of a big economical power in the neighbourhood (eg. Montenegro uses Euro).

Ooh, also the other way around, another country has accepted your currency as a method of payment. Sometimes next to their own currency (eg. Zimbabwe)

Lots of options here

[Caracasus]

How about an issue for economically poor nations about pegging their currency to economic superpowers for inflation purposes? Obvious title "Knocking The @@currency@@ Up A Peg"

Or what about countries that don't have their own currency at all and just use the one of a big economical power in the neighbourhood (eg. Montenegro uses Euro).

Ooh, also the other way around, another country has accepted your currency as a method of payment. Sometimes next to their own currency (eg. Zimbabwe)

Lots of options here

That country using your currency could also be churning out lots of high quality forgeries.

[Trotterdam]

In countries with extremely awful (hyperinflating) currencies, people might unofficially start using a foreign currency as a matter of practical necessity, even if it isn't acknowledged by the government.

[Australian rePublic]

For Sharia law nations, is there a way to criminialisw himosexuality?

[Trotterdam]

For Sharia law nations, is there a way to criminialisw himosexuality?

No. You can, however, criminalize homosexuality.

Examples include #218 option 3 and #411 option 1.

[Ardrentt]

Is there an issue covering corporations' sponsorship of pride parades?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Not that I can recall.

[Australian rePublic]

How about an issue for economically poor nations about pegging their currency to economic superpowers for inflation purposes? Obvious title "Knocking The @@currency@@ Up A Peg"

Yea, that would be great

However, when I suggested that, I meant an actual currency union like the Euro, or the East Caribbean Dollar, or the various Franc currencies, so I guess I have two ideas!

[Helaw]

I'd like to announce that the Editing team now has a new member...

Caracasus!

After an exceptional trial and with the unanimous approval of the team, Caracasus has been welcomed aboard to join us Editors in working on Issues before they reach the game. The trial was a great experience, and one anticipates that the team will grow ever stronger with the addition of a strong new writer. Be sure to open some bottles of champagne Coca Cola blackcurrant juice!

[The Atlae Isles]

I'd like to announce that the Editing team now has a new member...

Caracasus!

After an exceptional trial and with the unanimous approval of the team, Caracasus has been welcomed aboard to join us Editors in working on Issues before they reach the game. The trial was a great experience, and one anticipates that the team will grow ever stronger with the addition of a strong new writer. Be sure to open some bottles of champagne Coca Cola blackcurrant juice!

Congratulations Caracasus!

[Drasnia]

My condolences. Congrats

[Tinhampton]

I'd like to announce that the Editing team now has a new member...

Caracasus!

After an exceptional trial and with the unanimous approval of the team, Caracasus has been welcomed aboard to join us Editors in working on Issues before they reach the game. The trial was a great experience, and one anticipates that the team will grow ever stronger with the addition of a strong new writer. Be sure to open some bottles of champagne Coca Cola blackcurrant juice!

I'd like to congratulate NationStates' favourite elephant on... well, consolidating their position as such. *blackcurrant juice*

There has been a small hitch where Caracasus hasn't been awarded their nice, shiny, gold/poo-brown/olive-green/whatever title (see right if you were wondering, that's just an image, not a little bit of BBCode trickery I just did there), but I'm sure that'll be rectified...

[Frisbeeteria]

There has been a small hitch where Caracasus hasn't been awarded their nice, shiny, gold/poo-brown/olive-green/whatever title

For some reason, IEs get gold text on their posting names but not on their avatar titles. We'll look into that at some point.

Edit: actually, none of us get colored avatar titles.

[Tinhampton]

There has been a small hitch where Caracasus hasn't been awarded their nice, shiny, gold/poo-brown/olive-green/whatever title

For some reason, IEs get gold text on their posting names but not on their avatar titles. We'll look into that at some point.

Edit: actually, none of us get colored avatar titles.

I meant the coloured names, that's what I meant. I know that coloured avatar titles aren't a thing.

[Lord Dominator]

I'd like to announce that the Editing team now has a new member...

Caracasus!

After an exceptional trial and with the unanimous approval of the team, Caracasus has been welcomed aboard to join us Editors in working on Issues before they reach the game. The trial was a great experience, and one anticipates that the team will grow ever stronger with the addition of a strong new writer. Be sure to open some bottles of champagne Coca Cola blackcurrant juice!

And congratulations Caracasus!
That puts the non-CTE editors (including Luna and Sedge) at 13, plus two CTE.
I did a bit of looking and have come up with this: 4 of the non-CTE editors reside and Forest, and the number increases to 7 with puppets residing in Forest. Weird

[Ransium]

It's because Forest is awesome!

[Australian rePublic]

Congratulations Caracasus!

[Caracasus]

Thank you all! It was a very interesting process (though I must say, it was very hard to find a goat with a star shaped birthmark and a dagger forged with meteor iron at such short notice...) and I am very glad to be working with the editing team.

Rest assured I'll still be helping on the got issues forum as well. It may be my imagination, but I've seen a really good number of interesting issue premises and drafts of late.

And of course that makes Forest quite the issues capital. What can I say? We have a lot of serious issues...

[Candlewhisper Archive]

It's because Forest is awesome!

It's more of an engineered thing. I saw that two of our contest-winning authors were in Forest, plus long-respected GI regular Caracasus, so I figured it'd be a good place to move to (from 10,000 Islands, where I still maintain a puppet).

It's a funny situation for Candlewhisper Archive as I've historically used environment as my dump stat, and it's a region intended for nations that put the environment first...

Glad to welcome Caracasus to the team. I have prepared the golden butt-paddles and the Hood Of Enlightenment for his hazing ritual.

[Capercom]

I can't find an answer to my question in a reasonable amount of time, so forgive me if this has already been answered...

Why can issues mention Real Life countries, but nothing else in NS allows for mentioning of anything RL? I've come across issues mentioning countries like "Tasmania", which is definitely a real country, but if you reference WA's own passed resolutions or another country in a Proposal, it's illegal.

Does not compute. Is this an error or just the way it is lol?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

It's a historical weirdness.

Tasmania is the ONLY real place mentioned, and actually the Tasmania of NS is not the Tasmania of the real world. Consider it to be a country that coincidentally bears the same name.

As to why that historical weirdness came about, it's probably to do with Max being Australian, and in the early issues not having defined what was and was not the fiction-creating approach of the NS world.

In the same vein we don't represent real world religions any more, but an early issue mentions Catholicism.

Periodically we talk about changing Catholicism and Tasmania (and indeed Gypsies). I'm in favour of losing all three words from the issue base, but we've never hit quorum on making that edit.

[Capercom]

It's a historical weirdness.

Tasmania is the ONLY real place mentioned, and actually the Tasmania of NS is not the Tasmania of the real world. Consider it to be a country that coincidentally bears the same name.

As to why that historical weirdness came about, it's probably to do with Max being Australian, and in the early issues not having defined what was and was not the fiction-creating approach of the NS world.

In the same vein we don't represent real world religions any more, but an early issue mentions Catholicism.

Periodically we talk about changing Catholicism and Tasmania (and indeed Gypsies). I'm in favour of losing all three words from the issue base, but we've never hit quorum on making that edit.

Ah, that makes sense! I came across that and was puzzled. The amount of instances seem to be so low that it may not ever garner support to make the change.

[Australian rePublic]

Tasmania is NOT a country, it's an Australian state. And in real life, it's our mountainous, ccold island state, which the mainlanders like to tease. However, in the NationStates world, Tasmania is a tropical nation.

As an Australian based nation, it's kind of strange seeing an issue which states that the Tasmanian civil war is none of our business

I've actively campaigned to change Catholisism in Issue 006 to @@FAITH@@ since I first encountered that issue, about 5 nations ago, but kind of gave up hope on it. I guess the issue pre-dates the macros

In more recent times, I've been more advocating to bring in a @@BIGCITY@@ macro for those of us whose largest cities are different cities to our capitals. Despite almost unanimous support from non-staff users, I'm starting to think that that's also never gonna happen