i have three invitations for http://bannation.com

they need beta testers

it's a pretty innovative message board concept

each invite is first come first serve, so if one doesn't work try the next

http://bannation.com/?code=a3b2020b117954a007f3987a1b638be14220789e
http://bannation.com/?code=f70129cddd6db84325ef4e57e7f9921162c473ac
http://bannation.com/?code=428feecec0361770f6398428f0cc92ba3dde54e9

Quote :

"The Laws of the Land Laws are adjusted in real-time by the citizens of BanNation through an indirect democratic process. This indicates a value that may be increased or decreased by citizens through this process. As of 01/11/10 09:29:13 CST 1. Every citizen is anonymous. Nothing identifies you to other citizens. 2. Anyone may become a citizen, via invitation from a current citizen, until the population limit of 80 is reached. 3. Every citizen receives 1 ban every 10 consecutive unbanned posts, to be used at his or her discretion against any citizen of BanNation, under the condition that... 4. ...they must reply to the post of the citizen they are banning, and their post will be marked as having banned them. 5. The maximum number of bans any citizen may have for his or her use is capped at 4 6. Bans last for 20 minutes, 0 seconds. 7. Election cycles occur every 1 hour, 0 minutes. (Next election in 99:99:99) 8. Every election cycle, the top 10% of unbanned citizens with the most posts become the Elite, and are then given access to modify the laws until the next election cycle. 9. Every election cycle, the top 10% of unbanned citizen with the most bans, who have not become Elite, become Police, who receive unlimited bans, until the next election cycle. "

[Edited on January 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM. Reason : d]

1/15/2010 3:32:23 PM

Have you done any simulations of this dynamic?

1/15/2010 3:40:00 PM

i don't know if the guy that runs it has run any simulations

do you know how to do that kind of thing? sign up and suggest it

1/15/2010 3:46:46 PM

it's going to get annoying quickly

1/15/2010 3:55:47 PM

i thought so too, but i think there might be a point at which things reach equilibrium by adjusting the variables in the laws

1/15/2010 3:57:53 PM

unless there is interesting stuff to talk about, i don't see how it would be anything other than a place to dick around and play with the rules. any trends observed probably wouldn't be relevant on a real messageboard

1/15/2010 5:05:50 PM

great, another place for racists to throw around the n word

1/15/2010 6:01:53 PM

Quote :

"on a real messageboard"

aha, give you the keys to brentroad.com and suddenly you are an expert on what's a "real messageboard" and what is not

1/15/2010 11:39:27 PM

why don't you go find a real messageboard to post on then?

1/16/2010 12:00:26 AM

^^ sorry, then let me rephrase...a messageboard where real conversation is taking place. like i said, why would anybody want to post on this messageboard other than just to explore the limits of the rules.

1/16/2010 10:42:51 AM

a messageboard with no messages. truly an innovative concept

1/16/2010 1:10:31 PM

i guess the hope is that it will self-moderate once elections are up and running

right now it's the wild west

i'm a fan of the keyboard-centric user interface and the fact that i can ban racists and homophobes

^ no messages? there are hundreds

and all the invites in the OP have been used, but here's one more:

http://bannation.com/?code=782870314cedaef3e4f7df902f379e5e97266997

[Edited on January 16, 2010 at 4:28 PM. Reason : d]

1/16/2010 4:22:45 PM

1 more http://bannation.com/?code=82ba38245c5759e965019d365ad121186798cda9

1/17/2010 2:31:50 PM

1/17/2010 3:30:07 PM

elections have started running

the quality of the discussion has started trending in a positive direction

1/22/2010 2:42:48 PM

http://bannation.com/?code=b36b63f01f2372eaa2cc9eb72bf402cbcacb8311
http://bannation.com/?code=a7f1c750c115187afc0ce73d422db1a76e03ddd7

[Edited on January 22, 2010 at 10:51 PM. Reason : duh]

1/22/2010 10:50:46 PM

the 4chan invasion made things exciting for a while



[Edited on January 25, 2010 at 10:05 PM. Reason : then they settled down and decided to be productive citizens]

1/25/2010 10:05:04 PM