[question] who are the mods?

[The Blaatschapen]

Mods, when you joined NS all those years ago, what influenced your initial decisions about your nation's characteristics? E.g., Monitor, why did you choose to be a steamship? Blaat, why is your nation sheep-based?

It's sheep based because sheep are best farm animal.

[USS Monitor]

Monitor is my mod account because my other well-known nations had names that were inappropriate for moderating: Nazi Flower Power and -Ebola-.

Hahaha what? That took me by surprise.

When I first started telling people that all three were mine, people were surprised at first, but then after thinking about it for a while, they'd see the common themes that were consistent across all three accounts. The common overall theme is "pretend to be something deadly, use it as the basis for a running joke."

[Kostov]

Mods, when you joined NS all those years ago, what influenced your initial decisions about your nation's characteristics? E.g., Monitor, why did you choose to be a steamship? Blaat, why is your nation sheep-based?

It's sheep based because sheep are best farm animal.

And sheep is something Dutch isn't it?/En de schaap is iets Nederlands toch?

[Shazbotdom]

Fris,

Don't lie. We all know you're Walter and Jeff Dunham is controlling you.

[Crazy girl]

That actually fits so well

[The Blaatschapen]

That actually fits so well

I always thought of him as Statler and Waldorf combined.

--fozzie bear

[Ethel mermania]

Mods, when you joined NS all those years ago, what influenced your initial decisions about your nation's characteristics? E.g., Monitor, why did you choose to be a steamship? Blaat, why is your nation sheep-based?

USS Monitor isn't my first nation, but why I have it: I'm interested in Civil War history, and I'm a Northern girl, so I thought it would be cool to have a nation based on something from the Union side of the Civil War. I considered making a nation based on one of my favorite regiments, like the 20th Maine or 54th Mass., but then I had the idea to do USS Monitor and post from the point of view of the ship itself, and I thought that would be a fun running joke.

Monitor is my mod account because my other well-known nations had names that were inappropriate for moderating: Nazi Flower Power and -Ebola-.

Monitor's really appropriate, though. The guy who named the ship got it from Latin meaning "one who admonishes and corrects wrongdoers."

nfp was my favorite though, you played it really well

[USS Monitor]

USS Monitor isn't my first nation, but why I have it: I'm interested in Civil War history, and I'm a Northern girl, so I thought it would be cool to have a nation based on something from the Union side of the Civil War. I considered making a nation based on one of my favorite regiments, like the 20th Maine or 54th Mass., but then I had the idea to do USS Monitor and post from the point of view of the ship itself, and I thought that would be a fun running joke.

Monitor is my mod account because my other well-known nations had names that were inappropriate for moderating: Nazi Flower Power and -Ebola-.

Monitor's really appropriate, though. The guy who named the ship got it from Latin meaning "one who admonishes and corrects wrongdoers."

nfp was my favorite though, you played it really well

It was a lot of fun, but the joke kind of ran its course, and I thought it was time to move on.

[NERVUN]

I'll be sure this info get's sent to wikileaks. If I go missing or get assassinated. Tell my family...I love them

*dramatically* Tell them yourself!


NERVUN is definitely not a secret organization exploiting the psychological instability of teenagers to use as weapons, though. Definitely not. No idea where anyone could have gotten any such ideas.

NERVUN, which we can neither confirm or deny the existence of, cannot comment at this time on your statement, but promises any and all cooperation, that it may or may not have, in assessing said statement for any facts or truth that it may or may not contain, assuming an Angel, which we are still not commenting on the existence thereof, or a DOS player does not attack.

[The Atlae Isles]

Our holy mother, the General Forum, holds and teaches that Mods, the first principle and last end of all things, can be known with certainty from the created NS by the natural light of poster's reason. Without this capacity, man would not be able to welcome the Mods' revelation. The poster has this capacity because he is created "in the image of Max". In the historical conditions in which he finds himself, however, the poster experiences many difficulties in coming to know Mods by the light of reason alone.
Though poster's reason is, strictly speaking, truly capable by its own natural power and light of attaining to a true and certain knowledge of the Mods, who watch over and control the NS by their providence, and of the natural law written in our hearts by Max; yet there are many obstacles which prevent reason from the effective and fruitful use of this inborn faculty. For the truths that concern the relations between Mods and poster wholly transcend the visible order of things, and, if they are translated into poster's action and influence it, they call for self-surrender and abnegation. The posters' mind, in its turn, is hampered in the attaining of such truths, not only by the impact of the senses and the imagination, but also by disordered appetites which are the consequences of original post. So it happens that posters in such matters easily persuade themselves that what they would not like to be true is false or at least doubtful.
This is why the poster stands in need of being enlightened by the Mods' revelation, not only about those things that exceed his understanding, but also "about those religious and moral truths which of themselves are not beyond the grasp of posters'reason, so that even in the present condition of the posters, they can be known by all posters with ease, with firm certainty and with no admixture of error".
In defending the ability of posters' reason to know the Mods, the General forum is expressing its confidence in the possibility of speaking about them to all posters and with all posters and therefore of dialogue with other religions, with philosophy and science, as well as with unbelievers and amodists.
Since our knowledge of the Mods is limited, our language about them is equally so. We can name Mods only by taking posters as our starting point, and in accordance with our limited posters' ways of knowing and thinking.
All posters bear a certain resemblance to Mods, most especially those ranking Post Czar or above, created in the image and likeness of Max. The manifold perfections of posters - their truth, their goodness, their beauty all reflect the infinite perfection of Mods. Consequently we can name Mods by taking their creatures perfections as our starting point, "for from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Site Owner".
Mods transcend all posters. We must therefore continually purify our language of everything in it that is limited, image-bound or imperfect, if we are not to confuse our image of Max--"the inexpressible, the incomprehensible, the invisible, the ungraspable"--with our posters' representations. Our posters' words always fall short of the mystery of Mods.
Admittedly, in speaking about Mods like this, our language is using posters' modes of expression; nevertheless it really does attain to Mods themselves, though unable to express them in their infinite simplicity. Likewise, we must recall that "between Max and poster no similitude can be expressed without implying an even greater dissimilitude"; and that "concerning Mods, we cannot grasp what they are, but only what they are not, and how other posters stand in relation to them."

First off, this is a hysterical read, thank you Risottia. It also makes me wonder where IEs fit in to all this. False prophets gone made with with delusions of power and grandeur, I reckon.

Are you really a tree?

[Charlia]

*dramatically* Tell them yourself!


NERVUN is definitely not a secret organization exploiting the psychological instability of teenagers to use as weapons, though. Definitely not. No idea where anyone could have gotten any such ideas.

NERVUN, which we can neither confirm or deny the existence of, cannot comment at this time on your statement, but promises any and all cooperation, that it may or may not have, in assessing said statement for any facts or truth that it may or may not contain, assuming an Angel, which we are still not commenting on the existence thereof, or a DOS player does not attack.

Okay, but if anything happens to my mother any time soon...


Well, I'll be very sad, but...


Give me a giant robot please.

[Groot]

Are you really a tree?

I am Groot.

[Guelder]

How do i become one? theres people disagreeing me on threads

To become one you must be helpful and listen to the rules. So you can't become one since you're spamming and trolling here

[Hansdeltania]

Mods, when you joined NS all those years ago, what influenced your initial decisions about your nation's characteristics? E.g., Monitor, why did you choose to be a steamship? Blaat, why is your nation sheep-based?

It's sheep based because sheep are best farm animal.

Not baaaaaaaaaaaa-d.

[Katganistan]

Are you really a tree?

I am Groot.

Isn't it more "I am Groot,"?

[Reploid Productions]

Well, my mod avatar character is my Megaman X fancharacter Firefury (more specifically, the version used in my current mod sig images is the Battle Network/Star Force variation of the character.) Going from how [v] describes me in the past few Mod Olympics due to being the oldest continuously active mod from the early days of 2003, I'm apparently a scientific abomination using dark science to cheat death and rapidly heading in the direction of Lovecraftian horror, so.... yeah. Not the oldest mod on the team, just the longest-serving on the team. (Also, holy shit, I've been modding this place for 14 years now. Where does the time go?!)

Otherwise, I'm just a nerd. I have a job that pays the bills, I play video games, I watch anime (my favorites tend to be 90s/early 2000s stuff,) I engage in various creative endeavors including fanfiction, cosplay, RPing, photography and so on, and as probably evidenced by the Sword of DEAT in my mod sig, I like swords.

[USS Monitor]

Well, my mod avatar character is my Megaman X fancharacter Firefury (more specifically, the version used in my current mod sig images is the Battle Network/Star Force variation of the character.) Going from how [v] describes me in the past few Mod Olympics due to being the oldest continuously active mod from the early days of 2003, I'm apparently a scientific abomination using dark science to cheat death and rapidly heading in the direction of Lovecraftian horror, so.... yeah.

Can confirm. Description is accurate.

Not the oldest mod on the team, just the longest-serving on the team. (Also, holy shit, I've been modding this place for 14 years now. Where does the time go?!)

I know that feeling, "Where does the time go?" but I still have no idea how you've been modding this place for 14 years without having a mental breakdown and smashing your computer. It's not natural. That's how we can tell you're a Lovecraftian horror. Also, me being a New Englander, and New England being a favorite hangout for Lovecraftian horrors, I am familiar with such things. I know the signs.

[Shazbotdom]

Well, my mod avatar character is my Megaman X fancharacter Firefury (more specifically, the version used in my current mod sig images is the Battle Network/Star Force variation of the character.) Going from how [v] describes me in the past few Mod Olympics due to being the oldest continuously active mod from the early days of 2003, I'm apparently a scientific abomination using dark science to cheat death and rapidly heading in the direction of Lovecraftian horror, so.... yeah.

Can confirm. Description is accurate.

Not the oldest mod on the team, just the longest-serving on the team. (Also, holy shit, I've been modding this place for 14 years now. Where does the time go?!)

I know that feeling, "Where does the time go?" but I still have no idea how you've been modding this place for 14 years without having a mental breakdown and smashing your computer. It's not natural. That's how we can tell you're a Lovecraftian horror. Also, me being a New Englander, and New England being a favorite hangout for Lovecraftian horrors, I am familiar with such things. I know the signs.

I vote android....