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Good Luck Galen! I'm sure you two will be quite happy

Long time no see Ivan.

Hardly the first Consul Election...Early 2003 I think for that... 2002 was the era of the Isles and we hadn't really adopted the Roman naming theme yet.

lol, the Merit system had the option of just showing how many votes each option had or it could list the voting users as they voted. It also could keep the results secret until the vote had concluded.

That was later...The Meritocracy pre-dated Invader/Defender politics... But it did devolve to NPO vs ADN... The region was definitely more RP oriented...players role played as members of the government for their respective countries rather than as a single citizen of a region like you see in most Invader/Defender game play. Made for a different sort of game play...we did have our own foray into Defending/Invading...we went to war with Atlantic in 2003... Anyway, I highly doubt it will ever get resurrected.

Should be able to...it was set to 0 which disables the users ability to edit their own titles...I've never been a fan of letting users change their own title, but it's been a TWP tradition since I've been around. I've set it to a minimum of 5 posts and then you can edit your title, just FYI.

I'd have to build it from the ground up...you might recall it never worked in the last version of the site...time is not something I've had alot of as of late. I've been busy learning Coldfusion for work since the websites there that I have to support are all Coldfusion (for the record, not my choice! I'd switch them all to PHP in a heartbeat if I could). I'll see what I can do but no promises.

We did...never really got used much...

Done. You're tempting me to make you an Admin with how active you've suddenly become.

I think one of the things that made the Meritocracy such a working Democracy for a long time was the fact we had someone (me...not to toot my own horn or anything, because I do not want the Delegacy, just using it as an example) who held the top in game seat (admittedly, it was a Founder not a WA slot) without imposing his will on the players in the region...well...until the whole pebble's "reboot" but that was because we were in an activity lull much like what we have now... Anyway, my point is, the only time Democracy really seem to do well in NationStates is when running the Government is left to the players of the region and the user holding the reins of the region (be that Founder, or WA Delegate) is leaving the region to run itself and just staying by to help should something happen like raiders trying to move in a remove the democratically elected government...hard to do and also hard to truely call it a Democracy as it's more of a Benevolent Dictatorship, but it's the closest you can come in NationStates without just role playing the hole thing and ignore the actual game....

Democracy - Only because any of the other choices are less likely to have active user bases...Under Monarchy (Realistically a Dictatorship by another name) leaves all the decision making to the person at the top, and will see more stagnation in the end.

Is this the end of offsite forums for TWP? It's so dead around here... I'm not saying I'm going to do something like pull the plug but I had hoped to see some more activity when I paid for renewal on the forum software...

If you're using Ad-Blocker (little stopsign icon with ABP instead of Stop written on it) you can click the stop sign and select "Turn off for this site" which will allow ads on a site you want to support but continue to block them else where... The only reason I don't necessarily always do that myself is I have a rule that blocks all those facebook and twitter APIs calls that try to track your surfing habits by putting on Like/Share buttons on every page... What can I say, I'm a Social Media Luddite at times.

I hope you at least leave the ads on then...the site has to be paid for somehow. It's not like Max is exactly on Forbes' list of richest people in the world or anything.

Nah, he's realistically trying to find ways to make the site self-sufficient without putting more ads up. As cheap as Bandwidth is these days, hosting a particularly popular website like NS does cost a fair amount of money. I don't blame him, I just don't intend to buy any of those (save maybe the ad free thingy...even though I already block all the ads using ad-blocker, just to show my support for the site.)

Yes, SPAMaggedon will be the end of NS as we know it...or something

Rangers aren't that bad on Gas compared to some. It's for the summer...need something that can pull a tent trailer, and well...my Honda Civic Hatchback just isn't up to that task. Plus I'll still have my Civic for day to day/work stuff...so my gas bill shouldn't go up too much. Insurance...well...let's just say Insurance companies are evil.

Sorry, was busy this weekend....I actually saw it on Friday but got side tracked buying a little Ford Ranger this weekend, as well as a secret project (MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!)

It reads like an April 1st Post.....but it was posted on Feb 1st...so yeah...

To to know it's all working now...I'm going to create a new forum for tech support and move all the posts related to this issue to it...so that the embassy isn't a mess.

Upgraded to 3.4.2, please let me know if the issue is still happening.

Are you uploading or are you just linking to your own/a public server? EDIT: Just was checking the bug logs over at Invision and it looks like 3.4.1 has a few issues with the new javascript editor... manually typing in the IMG tag seems to be returning errors. So for the moment the solution apparently is to use the little button on the toolbar in the post editor...second row, 11th Icon.

I've checked every setting I can find that involves images and I can see no reason you wouldn't be able to post a jpeg...could you share the URL with me, and if you have it, the error you get when you try to post jpeg/jpg files to the post. Also, are you just linking to an external server, or are you trying to upload the images?

Does it give you a specific error? It would seem this started right after I updated the forum software, so I'll have to check the settings.

They are running on the same version of IPBoard as us, different skin though.