Fordorsia wrote:These threads always have and always will have banter, despite countless warnings, bans and locks over the years. Going after it now is pointless. That's just a fact.
I (and the rest of the Mods) don't mind a degree of banter, but the fact is, a preponderance of the so-called "banter" in these threads fails the Average Joe™ test or is just outright trolling. That will not be accepted. It will result in warnings, bans, and - if persistent - a moratorium on any thread franchise which fosters this sort of behavior, tolerates it, or acts as a haven for it. If the userbase of these threads proves so unwilling to modify that behavior, we can - and will - indefinitely prohibit the thread franchises as-needed; we've done it before, we can, and will, do it again when required.
We do not care if y'all want to call yourselves whatever you want, shitpost as much as you want, or shit-talk as much as you want somewhere other than NationStates. If it's here, it will be stopped; take it to your Discord(s), IRC(s), Skype, offsite forum(s); we do not care where, as long as it is not on any website where our rules have jurisdiction. As long as you are on a site where they do, they will be enforced.