NationStates

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:09 am**

The political compass itself is a huge fuckin joke.

Like yeah I'll admit I do put my poltical cumpiss results in my OOC factbook but I also specifically state that I don't take it seriously at all. (Granted I don't take most political test results that seriously but something about the cumpiss makes some weirdos online take it super seriously, maybe because it's babby's first political test or something?)

I mean shit I remember one time years back on another forum I used to post on there was a thread about posting your political compass results and I literally ended up off the fuckin chart.

Now look, we all know I'm left-wing and all but I'm not that goddamn left-wing.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:12 am**

Foehn Paramilitary Regions wrote:
Gonswanza wrote:Big cliche-

Over-reliance on the political compass. Yes, we get it, your queer leader is totes Libertarian Left, waw!

That ain't saying shit about what they actually believe in, or what their views truly are. Not everything is a plot point on some obscure chart that's more akin to a horoscope than an actual thing for gauging one's views.

no no you see my leader has to be in this specific point of this political compass that is based on pretty much nothing I tell you what the fuck do you mean that the polcomp is useless for actually telling me things???

On another note, how about the classic "agrees, neutral, disagrees" trio that you tend to see on a lot of characters? I think that's useless as well (even if marginally less so than the polcomp solution), simply because it tries to simplify a person's political views to a mere trio of absolutes. I will say this: there's a good reason most iconic characters don't tend to do this by itself (and the ones that do are not exactly the kinds of people to have nuanced political views in the first place - and this is one of the few cases where I'd say that the trio is helpful).

I also agree on that. When I write up a leader or a character I'd rather say this-

"[Character] believes that the military shall be the most important, first and foremost, with added support for welfare as well as law enforcement. Under their beliefs, religion has received zero support from the gov't, supporting their idea of separation of the church and state. However, they also agree that a direct democracy is a far superior system to a representative one, while allowing for a free market with little gov't meddling, beyond minimum wage laws and basic protections for workers to increase the quality of life and productivity."

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 5:41 am**

Can someone explain why people bump F7 threads? Especially the ones that are just silly game threads. Like if you have enough time to post 'bump', you have enough time to post an actual response to the thread.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:47 am**

Gandoor wrote:Can someone explain why people bump F7 threads? Especially the ones that are just silly game threads. Like if you have enough time to post 'bump', you have enough time to post an actual response to the thread.

I can't explain why in the silly game threads, but I can explain why people do bumps in the effort threads: to try and get activity back on them. This might not make sense at first glance (as you've said: why not post an actual reply?), but it does make more sense in this one case: the person bumping is the one who last posted a reply. Granted, the style of bumping depends on the person: some prefer to do a classic /bumpskip, while others go as far as to completely repost their last post.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 6:52 am**

Usually, if a thread finds itself on the last few pages of F7, I like to take my time trying to come up with a response for the nation above me since I basically have all the time in the world to write a good response, there's probably little risk of being ninja'd and dashing up my hard work. Course, might do a /bump if I cannot come up with anything or don't have time for it but need it to have more activity going about it.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:17 am**

Karazicu wrote:Usually, if a thread finds itself on the last few pages of F7, I like to take my time trying to come up with a response for the nation above me since I basically have all the time in the world to write a good response, there's probably little risk of being ninja'd and dashing up my hard work. Course, might do a /bump if I cannot come up with anything or don't have time for it but need it to have more activity going about it.

Sometimes I'm just not interested in the topic but want to preserve it for others. Or, sometimes, I'm the last poster or the poster before (or even the poster before that in case of the "two ANs" games) and I don't want to repeat-post or doublepost, so I just /bump or /bumpskip it.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:09 am**

Y'all know you can just like...delete your last post and repost it if you were the last poster, right?

(Also let's be real here: only weirdos actually care if you 'double-post' in an F7 thread tbh)

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:52 am**

More of a writing cliché, but i just want to see a nonmagical world with fantasy creatures, is this too much to ask, or is it impossible to do?

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:56 am**

Cliche: tagging, I've no idea why it exists and it seems so pointless and spammy that even mods clamp down on it

Like come on, at least when you bump a thread you push it back to the top of the page, just bookmark the page if you wanna remember it or something

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 8:59 am**

Perikuresu wrote:Cliche: tagging, I've no idea why it exists and it seems so pointless and spammy that even mods clamp down on it

Like come on, at least when you bump a thread you push it back to the top of the page, just bookmark the page if you wanna remember it or something

Aight.

[tagged for interest]

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:01 am**

Perikuresu wrote:Cliche: tagging, I've no idea why it exists and it seems so pointless and spammy that even mods clamp down on it

Like come on, at least when you bump a thread you push it back to the top of the page, just bookmark the page if you wanna remember it or something

I dont think people realizes it even exists, heck i don’t even know how to view tagged via bookmark

Edit: FOUND IT!

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:01 am**

[Insert whine / personal gripe #7281 here.]

:lol:

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 9:19 am**

Valentine Z wrote:[Insert whine / personal gripe #7281 here.]

[Insert funny number comment #69420 here.]

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:43 am**

I’ve only ever really bumped RPs cause it feels bad to put effort into making a nice OP premise and the thread getting buried/ignored by the 50th diyaristani civil war

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 10:54 am**

Gonswanza wrote:Big cliche-

Over-reliance on the political compass. Yes, we get it, your queer leader is totes Libertarian Left, waw!

That ain't saying shit about what they actually believe in, or what their views truly are. Not everything is a plot point on some obscure chart that's more akin to a horoscope than an actual thing for gauging one's views.

I can see that being a cliche for some nations, and originally I wasn't even sure what kind of government I would get until it said Psychotic Dictatorship for mine, so I've had to adjust my leader a bit because of that, although I still need to add more detail to my leader page, format it and all.

In other news, I also still think I'm still a summie, but I'm trying to be more detailed in posts/factbooks and such, but I've been having some probs irl so I'm spending less time here

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:02 am**

Cliche: Expanding the "summie" moniker outside of clear spammers and trolls.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:05 am**

Diarcesia wrote:Cliche: Expanding the "summie" moniker outside of clear spammers and trolls.

Are you referencing that I called myself a summie? I've been called one, so uuh...

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:42 am**

Orlesian States wrote:
Diarcesia wrote:Cliche: Expanding the "summie" moniker outside of clear spammers and trolls.

Are you referencing that I called myself a summie? I've been called one, so uuh...

In my opinion, "summie" is a label not to be given lightly.

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:46 am**

most of the people tagged as summies lately have been around for many years, hence not really summies

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:47 am**

Aureumterra III wrote:most of thee people tagged as summies lately have been around for many years, hence not really summies

That, or they refuse to leave

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:57 am**

summerposter: a dipshit kid/teenager who during summer break when most schools are out pathetically attempts to troll this site

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:04 pm**

Karazicu wrote: summerposter: a dipshit kid/teenager who during summer break when most schools are out pathetically attempts to troll this site

It gets annoying when it's used in the sense of "everyone who doesn't post like I do is a summie."

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:33 pm**

Red Lake Circle wrote:Cliché: far-right nations that describe the physical appearance of their female leaders or wives of leaders in… ahem… interesting ways…

That got a few people DEATd actually

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:39 pm**

Red Lake Circle wrote:
Sky Citadel wrote:Your just jealous my lore is uh, well developed.

Oh no, you’re… mostly fine, just uh… some summies I’ve seen crawling around whom I will not name…

You’re too new, but there used to be a bunch of older NS nations that did that but they got DEATd for effectively RPing BSDM

Posted: **Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:50 pm**

Thermodolia wrote:
Red Lake Circle wrote:Oh no, you’re… mostly fine, just uh… some summies I’ve seen crawling around whom I will not name…

You’re too new, but there used to be a bunch of older NS nations that did that but they got DEATd for effectively RPing BSDM

F7 users trying not to be horny challenge (impossible)

Another cliche: 100th post!

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