Building a Community

[JarlWolf]

Ariete, please watch what you call Communism, and I suggest you don't even approach the subject. I know your english isn't refined and you don't mean insult... but there is a fine line between Stalinism and even socialism, let alone Communism. Communism is a great ideal that suffered slandering by being associated by self proclaimed groups using the name as a veil for their operation in the same way "freedom" or "democracy" has.

And a subject I'd rather not broach overall.

There won't be territories making a split for themselves... that's ended in failure and lets face it, were all interconnected at this point...

I think the incompetent nationalism and nationalist faction in this country and the greed of the entire system and of all the oligarchs is going to come tumbling down due to massive unrest and a Socialist resurgence will hopefully take place. Hopefully better then the autocratic Soviet system and more of a Democratic Socialist take, unpoisoned by the claws of Stalinism. It'll b a movement that involves the entire region, not just small states.

Though, there is also the chance of Fascists taking power as well in portions, but that's unlikely and would be likely stamped out by the fire of the pressure and tension building up within the majority populace. What will happen I am thinking is the disgruntled portions of the military will lead a coup within the next 10 to 20 years or there will be a large amount of public outcry eventually demanding change and Socialist reform. Or both, people are unhappy here and the lack of care this government is showing is appalling. 

Onto other subjects though, I seriously don't want to talk about this at the moment...

[Buster's Uncle]

Yes.

Has anyone done any recruiting lately?  Let's be doing recruiting.  Good work with Red and Ulti, Jarl.

[JarlWolf]

Red/Arbee is thinking of bringing a friend on the forum.

[Buster's Uncle]

 

[ariete]

ahahhaha great jarl, i was joiking, it was a funny provocation. i'm waiting your reaction ...  (i've friends ''comunists'', as you intend, in my country but i regret they are used by trade unions and parties for their dirty speculations in the name of the people)

i know people who believe in politics, religion or any other fundamentalism, are very sensitive to the slightest mention.
personally i don't belive ideologies and religions will save men, indeed, precisely because made and leaded by other men, will prove to be always false promises for the guidance of collective moral in one way.
with this i'm not saying that democracy is the perfect system, indeed is an illusion also that.
maybe someone can think i don't belive in nothing ... i belive in my little big family, in my real friends and in love, for everybody and everything, the only can save men, and even if preached by everyone it's always opposed.

[JarlWolf]

I'm no idealist Ariete. If anything im a very bitter man, its just I'd rather avoid the subject because I am not a very kind and temperate person, and I don't want to marr this forum with such bad behaviour. I have more respect for its denizens then that.

[ariete]

with this i didn't certainly want to say that i'm a good Samaritan, i gotta enemies too, and maybe more than you, unfurtnaly out is not a love world, but i guess i'm open to all, more than a lot of people who see only in one direction, its.
i repeat that was a joke provocation, and i think we can discuss about everything without not respect someone.

[Unorthodox]

never mind...wrong thing...

[Unorthodox]

So, I'm asking about the feasibility of making a map that members may choose to go stick a pin in - perhaps with a couple of fields available that no one has to fill in if they don't want.  I KNOW it's doable - how HARD to do?

We've tried that on the Halloweenforum, and a couple usergroups I'm in, and it always becomes a mess.

Poly USED to have a little country flag icon you could tick in your profile...maybe that's the sort of thing that would work better here?

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd really hoped the map thing was workable.  It would look so cool...

I wouldn't doubt that the flag thing could work, if there's a plug-in, but 'poly has me with a flag I don't even recognize, and I never found where to correct, so there's that - and it wouldn't be the same, and using any plug-ins you can avoid causes all sorts of agro when there's an upgrade or something of the sort.

[Unorthodox]

Haven't been over there in ages, mind you, but I used to flip mine around to random obscure countries just for fun. 

[Unorthodox]

Anyway...I've always seen people try to do the map thing through google maps.  It loads like crap once you get a few pins in, and the popups with info are even worse.  Then you typically have to lock the thing because people spam it, then it's someone's JOB...and etc. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I don't mind janitor work unless the spambots find a way in.  There's no end to that.

[BU Admin]

A thing I've been remiss in announcing (being so busy with all the themes and new avatars and moving hosting of My Custom Factions Page here last week) is that I've taken a half-ownership in the forum.  I paid the server bill for half the year slightly over a month ago.  I spent my own money, because this place matters, and if something happens to sisko now, we can soldier on.  Changes nothing, really, except that much more security in the future of the site.

...

On a different note, you ever notice how slow it can be on weekends?  I bring this up in the cause of encouraging anyone who checks by on a slow day and feels a little disappointment to try to do something remedial.  I see some of the usual suspects hanging around --  Do the same thing we did to build this site into something alive and special in the first place; post moar.  Go to a little extra effort to create activity - the Funny Pictures thread isn't getting any longer without us posting more funny pictures.  I'll back you up.

I'm still mad at Labor Day anyway - it damped the momentum that made August the most active month ever for AC2.  But we can get that back pretty quickly; it wouldn't take a whole lot of people trying a little bit harder to start a snowball effect.  We've done it before and we'll do it again. 

Who's with me?

[ariete]

I paid the server bill for half the year slightly over a month ago.  I spent my own money, because this place matters, and if something happens to sisko now, we can soldier on.  Changes nothing, really, except that much more security in the future of the site.

hi uncle and thank you for the opportunities you give us, and personally thank you to had teached me how make graphics of custom facs, i'll always remember, i've lived a life doing things i felt without expecting anything, and in real life is so rare peoples follow this philosophy, and between friends should be do it.
unfortunately we don't know us in real life and i'm not properly so able to take part of a community as the veterans. it's the first forum where i try to share, first because i'm only 3 years i've the possibility to connect, and then i've an english all mine.
one thing is sure, here is the place where i expose me most of all other 3 or 4 forum where i'm registered.

surely you've thought about it but probaly you've chosen not, why not insert advertising? could help you and i think members can tolerate it.

p.s. your tone scares me : it seems if one of the owners dies, are killed or enter in prison the web site goes on at the same.