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The Future of NationStates?

The Site will Live on Long after Max Barry is gone
153
46%
The Site will End after Max Barry retires
20
6%
Another Company Will Buy Out NationStates and Takeover
22
7%
[violet] Will Replace Barry
73
22%
The Website will run solely by the Players
64
19%
 
Total votes : 332

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Islamic Republic e Jariri
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:22 pm

Caninope wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
NO! NationStates is the only website for me, I've been on it for so long (I had another nation before this)

How long is a long time, exactly?


A few years?

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Personal Freedom
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Postby Personal Freedom » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:23 pm

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
Wouldn't we lose like half the mod staff though?


Would that really be such a bad thing?

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Islamic Republic e Jariri
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:23 pm

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
A petition?


It's a request to do something. Normally get a bunch of signatures to a statement.


To ban under 18s from NS?

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Postby Blazedtown » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:23 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Caninope wrote:How long is a long time, exactly?


A few years?


How many years.
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Constaniana
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Postby Constaniana » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:24 pm

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:How has NS gone down in quality exactly?


Well General use to be a lot more happier, with posters who were pretty cool. Some of them are still here, but we get these new guys, who really post stupid things like: "Is God real?" Or "should abortion be legal?" Or even -get this- threads like "The End of NationStates?"

It's why I still think we should ban everybody under 18. It won't kill the retardedness, but it will slow it down.

Keep your under 18 ban to NSG.
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:24 pm

Blazedtown wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
A few years?


How many years.


I probably first joined in either 2010 or 2011

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Postby Bezombia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:24 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Mike the Progressive wrote:
It's a request to do something. Normally get a bunch of signatures to a statement.


To ban under 18s from NS?


In this case, yes.
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Mike the Progressive
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Postby Mike the Progressive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:25 pm

Personal Freedom wrote:
Mike the Progressive wrote:
Would that really be such a bad thing?

I have been here for years, and I am under 18, good sir.


Sometimes you lose the good with the bad. Though tbh, I'm not really sure who you are...

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Mike the Progressive wrote:
It's a request to do something. Normally get a bunch of signatures to a statement.


To ban under 18s from NS?


Yes. Obama ran on a campaign of hope and change. Now it's time to make that a reality. Are you under 18?

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Postby Grenartia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:26 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:How has NS gone down in quality exactly?


See:

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:How has NS gone down in quality exactly?


Well General use to be a lot more happier, with posters who were pretty cool. Some of them are still here, but we get these new guys, who really post stupid things like: "Is God real?" Or "should abortion be legal?" Or even -get this- threads like "The End of NationStates?"

It's why I still think we should ban everybody under 18. It won't kill the retardedness, but it will slow it down.


Don't forget the fascists, the influx of trolls, the bigots, the lolbuttarians, Randroids, etc.

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To try to reverse the trend.

Don Quixote was never intended to be a character worthy of emulation.


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Postby Thafoo » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:26 pm

it ends when I die

it ends when I die

yOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE ME ALIVE BASTARDS

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Postby Bezombia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:27 pm

What would Nixon do?
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Sauritican wrote:We've all been spending too much time with Ben
Verdum wrote:Hey girl, is your name Karl Marx? Because your starting an uprising in my lower classes.
Black Hand wrote:New plan is to just make thousands of disposable firearms and dump them out of cargo planes with tiny drag chutes attached.
Spreewerke wrote:The metric system is the only measurement system that truly meters.
Spreewerke wrote:Salt the women, rape the earth.
Equestican wrote:Ben is love, Ben is life.
Sediczja wrote:real eyes realize real lies
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Postby Kitty Cat Meow Thousand Dollars » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:27 pm

Grenartia wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:How has NS gone down in quality exactly?


See:

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Well General use to be a lot more happier, with posters who were pretty cool. Some of them are still here, but we get these new guys, who really post stupid things like: "Is God real?" Or "should abortion be legal?" Or even -get this- threads like "The End of NationStates?"

It's why I still think we should ban everybody under 18. It won't kill the retardedness, but it will slow it down.


Don't forget the fascists, the influx of trolls, the bigots, the lolbuttarians, Randroids, etc.

So... 2003 then?
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Islamic Republic e Jariri
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:28 pm

Bezombia wrote:What would Nixon do?


Nixon is one of the least popular presidents of the USA, his own grave has to be protected from anti war protesters.
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Personal Freedom
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Postby Personal Freedom » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:28 pm

Mike the Progressive wrote:
Personal Freedom wrote:I have been here for years, and I am under 18, good sir.


Sometimes you lose the good with the bad. Though tbh, I'm not really sure who you are...

I can say the same. Seen you around before I think... This trolling thing is out of hand though.
Economic Left/Right: -10.0 (previously -6.45)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18 (previously -4.72 )
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves;
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Postby Grenartia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:28 pm

Caninope wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:How has NS gone down in quality exactly?

Good posters have left, and several others (if I may indulge myself into inclusion of the "good poster" category) are winding down, less involved, or in the process of leaving. This website has underwent an eternal summer, seemingly being overrun by trolls and stupid ideologies and what seems to be a Moderation team that's not particularly interested in engaging with the players (from my own viewpoint).

But I digress. Maybe I'm just getting older (although, as it turns out, the site is not, and there has been an exodus among the older posters, or so it seems).


This as well. And there's no quality replacing that of the posters that left.
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Postby Bezombia » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:29 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Bezombia wrote:What would Nixon do?


Nixon is one of the least popular presidents of the USA, his own grave has to be protected from anti war protesters.


Congratulations? What was the point of saying that?
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon...but down this road we've been so many times...
Please, call me Benomia. Post count +14623, founded Oct. 23, 2012.
Sauritican wrote:We've all been spending too much time with Ben
Verdum wrote:Hey girl, is your name Karl Marx? Because your starting an uprising in my lower classes.
Black Hand wrote:New plan is to just make thousands of disposable firearms and dump them out of cargo planes with tiny drag chutes attached.
Spreewerke wrote:The metric system is the only measurement system that truly meters.
Spreewerke wrote:Salt the women, rape the earth.
Equestican wrote:Ben is love, Ben is life.
Sediczja wrote:real eyes realize real lies
I'm a poet. Come read my poems!

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Yumyumsuppertime
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Postby Yumyumsuppertime » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:29 pm

Barry will never voluntarily release his grip on power voluntarily; an informed view of history shows that. Instead, the mass membership of the site shall rise up against Barry and his moderatorial lackeys, overthrowing them in the name of the people, and establishing a dictatorship of the playertariat.

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Thafoo
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Postby Thafoo » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:30 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Bezombia wrote:What would Nixon do?


Nixon is one of the least popular presidents of the USA, his own grave has to be protected from anti war protesters.

Ducks can smell fear.

Quack.

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Postby Yumyumsuppertime » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:30 pm

Grenartia wrote:
Caninope wrote:Good posters have left, and several others (if I may indulge myself into inclusion of the "good poster" category) are winding down, less involved, or in the process of leaving. This website has underwent an eternal summer, seemingly being overrun by trolls and stupid ideologies and what seems to be a Moderation team that's not particularly interested in engaging with the players (from my own viewpoint).

But I digress. Maybe I'm just getting older (although, as it turns out, the site is not, and there has been an exodus among the older posters, or so it seems).


This as well. And there's no quality replacing that of the posters that left.


"I keep gettin' older, but those NSG posters, they stay just the same age...awright, awright, awright..."

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Personal Freedom
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Postby Personal Freedom » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:31 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Bezombia wrote:What would Nixon do?


Nixon is one of the least popular presidents of the USA, his own grave has to be protected from anti war protesters.

I am a liberal, and I still think Nixon was a great president. Vietnam, space, and speeches made the man. Too bad he was a McCarthyist.
Economic Left/Right: -10.0 (previously -6.45)
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -7.18 (previously -4.72 )
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves;
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

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Pilotto
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Postby Pilotto » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:31 pm

Grenartia wrote:
Mike the Progressive wrote:
Well General use to be a lot more happier, with posters who were pretty cool. Some of them are still here, but we get these new guys, who really post stupid things like: "Is God real?" Or "should abortion be legal?" Or even -get this- threads like "The End of NationStates?"

It's why I still think we should ban everybody under 18. It won't kill the retardedness, but it will slow it down.


Don't forget the fascists, the influx of trolls, the bigots, the lolbuttarians, Randroids, etc.

And the communists and the Stalinists. Especially the Stalinists. Way too many of them running around on NationStates.

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Islamic Republic e Jariri
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Postby Islamic Republic e Jariri » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:31 pm

Bezombia wrote:
Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Nixon is one of the least popular presidents of the USA, his own grave has to be protected from anti war protesters.


Congratulations? What was the point of saying that?


Then why on earth would anyone think of what Nixon of all Presidents would do?

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Mike the Progressive
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Postby Mike the Progressive » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:31 pm

Bezombia wrote:What would Nixon do?


He'd wiretap everybody, and in private conversations refer to people as being "cocksuckers" or deragtory slur for being Jewish celebrate ethnic and religious diversity.

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Thafoo
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Postby Thafoo » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:32 pm

Islamic Republic e Jariri wrote:
Bezombia wrote:
Congratulations? What was the point of saying that?


Then why on earth would anyone think of what Nixon of all Presidents would do?

Because we assume everyone can detect satire, no matter how subtle said satire is.

Wait, this is NSG.

HA

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Postby Pilotto » Wed Mar 12, 2014 7:32 pm

Yumyumsuppertime wrote:Barry will never voluntarily release his grip on power voluntarily; an informed view of history shows that. Instead, the mass membership of the site shall rise up against Barry and his moderatorial lackeys, overthrowing them in the name of the people, and establishing a dictatorship of the playertariat.

:rofl:

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