NationStates Jolt Archive

Hi, I've been registered on the forums for about a week now with the moniker "[NS]The-Republic," even though my nation name is simply "The-Republic." I made a side mention of it in the UN forum, and was told that it was one of Jolt's quirks and that it could be removed via a request in Technical.

I'm curious though: will removing "[NS]" reset my post count? If not, then I humbly ask a mod to dub me "The-Republic," but if so, I'll just keep the "[NS]."

Thanks.

No, changing a name will not remove your post count, because your membership is still under the same account. Board administrators have the power to change your post count, as well.

M'kay, thanks.

Sorry, I don't really know the heirarchy of mods, admins, deities, etc. and their respective powers.

Short answer - we're on Jolt forums, and NS powers do not equal Jolt powers. It takes a Jolt admin to fix that.

The admins occasionally send a list to Jolt, but it's not speedy, and there are other priority issues. I'll point out this thread in any event.

Thanks a bunch.

You get [NS] if there's a pre-existing Jolt forum account with your nation name. So we prepend [NS] (or [NS:], or [NS::]...) to give you a unique forum name.

I believe Jolt never deletes old forum accounts but merely puts them in a hidden state, so it's not possible to get the [NS] removed without causing conflicts.

Incidentally, this is the problem that's holding up the release of old nation names: I can't work out how to get the forum to reliably assign them a new, unique forum account.