Age Poll, February 2015

[Ifreann]

It looks to me like some players are puppet voting in options #2 and #6.

Which of course renders the poll meaningless. I could ask a Mod to investigate, but I doubt they'd make the effort since puppet voting on a poll isn't a forum offense.

Really bloody annoying though.

we are winning

... and here's a suspect.

"I know, I'll use puppets to make this poll less accurate! Truly it shall be the most whimsical jape of the season!" - Someone, apparently.

[United Russian Soviet States]

I wonder what drove them to this site.

What drew you to this site?

Perhaps there aren't many debate forums which are so easy to register on and have an age as low as 13 to start.

That wouldn't really explain the bulge at 15 or 16 years though. It's not just this thread, every age poll on General has shown more mid-teens than early-teens.

So maybe it's the game (or games, there being more than one way to 'play Nationstates') which attracts early teens, but doesn't entirely captivate them. How much better the world would be if I called the shots, this is great, oh wait. There are all these other players trying to rule the world, and they have more practice than I do. I'll just chill out for a while in one of these "discussion" forums.

And they get stuck on the forums, like mice in a glue trap. Stuck here until they finally knaw their own leg off to escape.

For sake of argument, let's say that 13 and 14 year olds aren't, in general, particularly politically active/aware. As a consequence, we should expect that NSG draws from a smaller pool and so there should be fewer of them in NSG (as we see). However, after one or two years mixing with older teens and stuff, the number of teens to whom a game like NS would appeal increases. As a result, we should see more of these.

Furthermore, the forums are populated by people who are young. This has two effects. Firstly, it doesn't discourage other younger people. Secondly, it probably does discourage at least some older members (especially if they get headhunted, as it were.

If we then argue that the forum model or the relative inaction of the game or both lead to a relatively low retention rate of players so that many make it a few years then tail off (if not months or weeks). This would help explain the bulges, I think.

I wanted to play a political simulation game after I had been playing a life simulation game called Stick RPG.

[Opplandia]

25 and lovig it

[The Eastern Antarctic State]

I am fifteen years old, turned so in January

[Imyoji]

18 years young.

[Forsher]

What drew you to this site?



For sake of argument, let's say that 13 and 14 year olds aren't, in general, particularly politically active/aware. As a consequence, we should expect that NSG draws from a smaller pool and so there should be fewer of them in NSG (as we see). However, after one or two years mixing with older teens and stuff, the number of teens to whom a game like NS would appeal increases. As a result, we should see more of these.

Furthermore, the forums are populated by people who are young. This has two effects. Firstly, it doesn't discourage other younger people. Secondly, it probably does discourage at least some older members (especially if they get headhunted, as it were.

If we then argue that the forum model or the relative inaction of the game or both lead to a relatively low retention rate of players so that many make it a few years then tail off (if not months or weeks). This would help explain the bulges, I think.

I wanted to play a political simulation game after I had been playing a life simulation game called Stick RPG.

Probably something similar, then. I suppose it's possible that the forum attracts some people but the idea of the game is probably the big draw, I reckon it was for me. Mind you, I cannot remember how I found the site but I do know that the idea was appealing (even if the game itself never really grabbed me). On the other hand, I was also 16 when I found NS.

[Dumb Ideologies]

It looks to me like some players are puppet voting in options #2 and #6.

Which of course renders the poll meaningless. I could ask a Mod to investigate, but I doubt they'd make the effort since puppet voting on a poll isn't a forum offense.

Really bloody annoying though.



... and here's a suspect.

"I know, I'll use puppets to make this poll less accurate! Truly it shall be the most whimsical jape of the season!" - Someone, apparently.

Hohohoh such tomfoolery!

[Jamjai]

It looks to me like some players are puppet voting in options #2 and #6.

Which of course renders the poll meaningless. I could ask a Mod to investigate, but I doubt they'd make the effort since puppet voting on a poll isn't a forum offense.

Really bloody annoying though.

we are winning

... and here's a suspect.

Conspiracy against me

[The Archregimancy]

"I know, I'll use puppets to make this poll less accurate! Truly it shall be the most whimsical jape of the season!"

Why, that's precisely what I said to myself this afternoon while polishing my monocle, waiting for Jeeves to bring me my first G&T of the day, and desperately trying to pump up the number of respondents in the 41+ category.


More seriously:

It looks to me like some players are puppet voting in options #2 and #6.

Which of course renders the poll meaningless. I could ask a Mod to investigate, but I doubt they'd make the effort since puppet voting on a poll isn't a forum offense.

No, it isn't. There are very few situations where puppet abuse is actively actionable, and the only situation I can think of where puppet voting might be actionable is under the very specific rules governing the participation of puppets in certain events in the NS Sports sub-forum.

Sorry.

[Edgy Opinions]

You're '94, yes?

At any rate, the 90s kid has more substantial memories rather than snatching ones (i.e. like you describe). But, at least, with '94 one has started school prior to 2000 (which is, obviously a Big Thing).

I'm from late December 1994.

Granted, I completed two grades in 2000 due to moving to a different city, so I always studied around older people (I was by far the youngest in class when I started high school). Started Jardim II in March, started Classe de Alfabetização (now 1º ano do ensino primário) in August. (And had the best grades, 100% 100%, until the third grade.)

Does kindergarten count as school? I took it as seriously.

[Katyuscha]

Born July 12, 1995

I'm technically a 90's kid, but I was a child. I didn't even know what the 90's were, so whatever.

[Edgy Opinions]

Born July 12, 1995

I'm technically a 90's kid, but I was a child. I didn't even know what the 90's were, so whatever.

I remember people saying that 2000/2001 were set to bring the Final Judgment lol.

[CTALNH]

Here is a fun question how old am I?

You are 17.

20 actually.

[Bacopa]

I turned 20 in December.

Man i feel old saying that.

Relax, I turned twenty twenty-nine years ago

[Soldati Senza Confini]

You're '94, yes?

At any rate, the 90s kid has more substantial memories rather than snatching ones (i.e. like you describe). But, at least, with '94 one has started school prior to 2000 (which is, obviously a Big Thing).

I'm from late December 1994.

Granted, I completed two grades in 2000 due to moving to a different city, so I always studied around older people (I was by far the youngest in class when I started high school). Started Jardim II in March, started Classe de Alfabetização (now 1º ano do ensino primário) in August. (And had the best grades, 100% 100%, until the third grade.)

Does kindergarten count as school? I took it as seriously.

I am from March 1989, what the fuck?!

Keep making me feel old, here.

[United Russian Soviet States]

I wanted to play a political simulation game after I had been playing a life simulation game called Stick RPG.

Probably something similar, then. I suppose it's possible that the forum attracts some people but the idea of the game is probably the big draw, I reckon it was for me. Mind you, I cannot remember how I found the site but I do know that the idea was appealing (even if the game itself never really grabbed me). On the other hand, I was also 16 when I found NS.

I was 13 when I found this site.

[The Grey Wolf]

I turned 17 last year in September. Turning 18 this year, cannot wait to finally be a legal adult.

Not much more to say than this.

[Forsher]

You're '94, yes?

At any rate, the 90s kid has more substantial memories rather than snatching ones (i.e. like you describe). But, at least, with '94 one has started school prior to 2000 (which is, obviously a Big Thing).

I'm from late December 1994.

Granted, I completed two grades in 2000 due to moving to a different city, so I always studied around older people (I was by far the youngest in class when I started high school). Started Jardim II in March, started Classe de Alfabetização (now 1º ano do ensino primário) in August. (And had the best grades, 100% 100%, until the third grade.)

Does kindergarten count as school? I took it as seriously.

Depends. If you mean kindergarten like in Kindergarten Cop, kind of because it's the K in K-12 and, therefore, is the same as new entrants (but, apparently, way more focussed on playing... but, then, I am literally using what happens in kindergarten cop to describe this). If you mean proper kindergarten (a kind of pre-school option), then no.

Born July 12, 1995

I'm technically a 90's kid, but I was a child. I didn't even know what the 90's were, so whatever.

You should've been in my core class. We'd have had 12, 13 and 14. But, that would've killed the nice pattern of sorts with 13, 14, 22, 30, and 31.

But, yeah, I reject the idea of 1995 being included in the 90s kid thing because it's just too young to have meaningful memories of the 90s. If you want to talk about children's programming from the 90s... yes a lot of it ran into the 2000s (and therefore within the child period of a 1995 child) but parents were also likely to select the films of the 90s and late 80s for such children to watch, as well as more recent things.

[Fonidia and Osteyon]

I'm turning 18 next month, and even though most of the people here are around 15-19, I still feel like a kid.

[Ykrovjnge Krjvwic]

18 in 9 days. Wouldn't mind being 6 or 7 or 8 again, though.

[Oceasia]

I turned 13 last September.

I must say, you're a pretty decent writer for your age.

Thanks for the kind gratitude, sir Bunk!

One more year for me, and then it's wine time.

I drank wine once. It tastes horrible.

I'm 13, turning 14 in October.

Now i know I'm not the youngest person here.

[Sebastianbourg]

One more year for me, and then it's wine time.

I drank wine once. It tastes horrible.

Blasphemy.

[Oceasia]

I drank wine once. It tastes horrible.

Blasphemy.

Nope.

[United Russian Soviet States]

I must say, you're a pretty decent writer for your age.

Thanks for the kind gratitude, sir Bunk!

One more year for me, and then it's wine time.

I drank wine once. It tastes horrible.

I'm 13, turning 14 in October.

Now i know I'm not the youngest person here.

I thought alcohol was prohibited in Islam.

[The Grey Wolf]

18 in 9 days. Wouldn't mind being 6 or 7 or 8 again, though.

I would. It sucked.