Aleister

Wait, this is a region that is specifically designed for playing casino-games?
I love this.

Look who's back 

I'm going to respectfully disagree. IRC was essentially the same as Discord, but without the bells and whistles (Skype is terrible, though). That being said, I used IRC, AIM, and MSN for years to communicate with others, across a wide variety of time zones, including the UK and Australia, and the eastern US for that matter. Being on the West Coast doesn't always make the timing right for me to have conversations with people in this country, but I managed on IRC, and now on Discord. The point, though, the chat systems are functional, and they can work.
I do agree that the forums have helped in the past, I always advocated for forums. But, I disagree that Discord has killed forums, or anything like that. Forum usage had been down for a while. That's part of why I never came home to stay before. There wasn't consistent activity on the forum that I could see that would be easy to start participating in, maybe just some spam games, I was still logged into IRC but it was mostly not used, Skype was sort of used, and the RMB was difficult to break into, even for me, and sometimes what I saw was not what I remembered this region to be.
But, anyways, I do think the forum and Discord can coexist, just the same way forum and IRC did for so long.

Pardon my second really long post in a row. 
If you look at Lamb's thread http://www.westpacific.org/forums/index.php?/topic/2358-forum-reorganization/
He has some good ideas about reorganizing the Hall of Nations area. We discussed it for a couple of hours and came up with this outline for adding new sections and cleaning up the rights in the section. I understand it is a lot of work but hopefully this can be done.
 
 
Hall Of Nations Forum
"Information about the Hall of Nations and areas for Hall business."
  Anyone can access it.
  Nobody other than admins can create new threads.
  Anyone can post in unlocked threads (like Citizenship Applications).
 
Create the following Sub-forums
  Voting
  "Make your voice heard in elections!"
    Anyone can access it.
    Only Speaker and admins can create new threads.
    Only Citizens can post in the unlocked voting threads.
    Move the Speaker Election thread in here AFTER the election is closed.
  Campaigning
  "If you are running for office, post your position papers here."
    Anyone can access it.
    Only Speaker, Citizens, and admins can create and post in threads.
    Move the 2 Campaign threads currently in HoN into here.
  Legislation
    "Proposals made to the floor of the Hall of Nations are submitted and discussed here."
    Anyone can access it.
    Only Speaker and admins can create new threads.
    Only Speaker, Citizens, and admins can post in threads.
    Move the archived legislation threads into this area.
  Private Chambers
    "Hall of Nations business and other general discussions."
    Anyone can access it.
    Only Speaker, Citizens, and admins can create and post in threads.
  Library of the Hall
    "The official residence of the Manners and Laws."
    Anyone can access it.
    Only Speaker and admins can create and post in threads.
 
The existing Sub-forums
Sacred Archives of The Hall of Nations
  Anyone can access it.
  Nobody other than admins can create new threads.
  No posting.
Judiciary
  Anyone can access it.
  Nobody other than Speaker and admins can create new threads.
  Only Speaker, Citizens, and admins can post in unlocked threads.
 
Order should be:
Hall Of Nations Forum
  Voting
  Campaigning
  Legislation
  Judiciary
  General Discussion
  Library of the Hall
  Sacred Archives of The Hall of Nations

You will never be deleted!  We will keep your likeness forever.  And when we get bored of it, we will stuff it full of beer cans and airplane bottles of booze and create an adult piñata out of you!

Yeee, the other southern Pennsylvanian.
Now I have someone who can truly understand my angst.

Hello everyone!
With the whole government thingamajinga going on, I finally decided to join the forum. Normally I just lurk on the RMB and "grace" it with posts of music close to my heart on Fridays. So I am looking forward to some fun and interesting citizen activities.
Small personal info: I can write "äöüß" with single strokes on my keyboard. Warm greetings from central Europe!

Nation in The West Pacific: Sad Wolf
World Assembly (WA) Nation: A Classless Society (I am typically mobile though)

Please list any other names or aliases you use in NationStates: Lamb or Lamb Stone, maybe Pap

Please list regions or organizations with which you are currently affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: Lone Wolves United (Il-Khan), Kiwa, and Cassius

Please list regions or organizations with which you have in the past been affiliated as a resident, citizen, or member: Too long to remember

Would you like to join (check all that you wish to join)...

[ ] The West Pacific Armed Forces
[ ] Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Corp
[ ] The West Pacifican Newspaper Staff
[x] Ministry of Recruitment and Citizenry Staff
[ ] Ministry of Internal Affairs Staff                                                                                   


Please swear the following oath of citizenship:

I, Sad Wolf, swear that I have, to the best of my knowledge, been completely truthful in applying for citizenship in The West Pacific and that I have no other NationStates identity that has not been made known in this application. I swear my allegiance to The West Pacific and its citizens, and I swear not to engage in hostilities against The West Pacific or to violate The Manners of Governance, the constitution of The West Pacific, or any laws made pursuant to that constitution.
 Like this

I want him to yell at his moderators/admins and clean-up this forum and any others that are graveyards.
Yes, I know, I'm that guy, but with this whole "revival" thing we're doing with the new constitution and such, it might be good to go through and clean and archive threads. Nothing discourages activity more than a forum filled with threads that haven't been utilized for a year plus.

This movement is all credited to me, yes, mhm. Ahh, yes. Mmm, yes! 
Anyway, I've said it to "The Big Badgeman" multiple times already, but this looks good and I'm excited to get these new implementations and processes up and running. I think with everyone working together to get things running, we'll be able to help repair the region's activity issues and subsequently bring some new spice to TWP.

I want him to yell at his moderators/admins and clean-up this forum and any others that are graveyards.
Yes, I know, I'm that guy, but with this whole "revival" thing we're doing with the new constitution and such, it might be good to go through and clean and archive threads. Nothing discourages activity more than a forum filled with threads that haven't been utilized for a year plus.