Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. People come here, introduce themselves, then apparently don't find anything worth sticking around for. How do we get people to stick around? I don't know the answer.
That has been an issue since age immemorial. It's the greatest mystery of Nationstates, and if someone has the answer, I would love to hear it.
I think the root activity is chatting up in IRC, and random discussion of matters of all stripes. There's no exact science to it all, but I think something we haven't tried is having frequent,
fruitful discussions about various pieces of world news and perhaps discussion about things that happen in Nationstates. Granted, not much is happening in NS at the moment, but I feel that we
all get more involved when we have open discussions about what's going on around the world. I feel like at the
very basic root, that's what helps to strengthen a community. Other things are obviously important, and should also be built upon such as worldbuilding and regional politics and things like that.
What is
not advisable is legislating for the sake of legislating. We tried that in 2014 in Lazarus and it did not work out very well. Also not advisable is a complete government change. What we have is different, and it's a good system. When I was delegate in 2012, I tried to change Taijitu's government system. It just didn't jive, and I got a
ton of pushback from the community. What we have is something that gels, and I think we just need to work within its confines to make it something that we can all enjoy together. It
is possible! I think also we need to continue on the recruiting streak we've been on for about a year now. We had a lot of success and enthusiasm for it before, and I think if we can spark that enthusiasm again, we can also make something out of this experience that is worthwhile. I know we have been recruiting nonstop for quite a while, but I think getting
everyone enthusiastic about it, and enthusiastic about getting people to join the forum, and doing regional polls, and communicating with people in game (specifically via the RMB), will help a lot.
Not all is lost! We have been in
far worse positions than this, and made it through fine. We just need to dust ourselves off a bit.