NationStates Jolt Archive

I just had this nation resurrected (I started re-reading all my old Animorphs books and I just felt this urge) and, obviously, I decided to got post on the forums with it. Now, at first I began to get a whole bucnh of really weird error messages (Problems with my e-mail address, problems with my internet service, etc.) and I was about to file a "Getting Help" report when bam!, I'm logged on to the forums (I don't know if I fixed it, which is unlikely, or the Mods did, in which case thanks!). It's all good, until I notice that, instead of just "The Andalite Homeworld", I'm "[NS:::]The Andalite Homeworld". Now, I've browsed the technical help threads and I've learned that, when you have the [NS] in front of your name it means that somebody on Jolt already had your account name before you signed up. Okay, no problem, I can deal with that. However, I've never before seen an account name with [NS:::] in front it, the colons are new to me.

Do they mean anything special? Are they a result of all those first errors? Or does it simply mean that there were three people on Jolt with the same name as me?

Oh, and when I'm logging in on the forums do I need to put in the [NS:::], or just my regular nation name?

I am NOT a mod, but i will say this: some have as many as 5 colons, i don't know why. and the strange thing is that no-one has had that name before. it must be some glitch.

And now a new problem, I can't seem to login to this nation via the forums. Whether I type in [NS:::]The Andalite Homeworld or just The Andalite Homeworld, I get an error message (Interestingly, no matter how many times I try, it still says I have used 0 of 5 bad login attempts) and I need to go back to my nation page and link to the forums from there. A connected issue?

It's a glitch with Jolt. What I believe has happened is that you now have a forum account and a nation account which are not connected to each other.
Continue to log into your nation account or your nation will die of inactivity.

Wait...if the forum account and nation are not connected, then how can I log in to the forums through my nation page?