NationStates Jolt Archive


"Impersonating"?

Cristia United
10-10-2005, 18:43
In the site rules it says,

Can I steal another player's nation?
No. This is fraudulent behavior and breaches the site's terms & conditions. The same applies to any attempt to impersonate another player, including attempting to hack nation or region passwords.

Does this include making a nation with a similar name to another nation for the confusion that will ensue?
Frisbeeteria
10-10-2005, 18:47
It can. Depends on intent, as demonstrated by behavior. Such complaints should be made via the Getting Help page. Be sure to name names there, but not here.
Cristia United
10-10-2005, 18:49
My thought was it's fine as long as you don't directly impersonate the similar nation, though chatting without clarifying would be ok. I'm not a victim or perpatrator (sp?) of this, I'm actually just curious.
The Noble Men
10-10-2005, 18:49
It can. Depends on intent, as demonstrated by behavior. Such complaints should be made via the Getting Help page. Be sure to name names there, but not here.

So would it be alright to imitate a nation just for harmless laughs? And I'm guessing doing it to create tension and frame the real nation is wrong?
Cristia United
10-10-2005, 18:51
The thought of my friends and I that were discussing it was that it could be used to confuse an invader region or such during an invasion: move a lot of similar nations in so they lose track of what's what.
Frisbeeteria
10-10-2005, 18:56
So would it be alright to imitate a nation just for harmless laughs?
Pretty much a great big flaming NO on that one. Every attempt on that I've ever seen comes across as malicious.

Where it's OK is when there is unintentional similarity. Take a year-old nation called "Julius Ceasar", founder of the region "The Empire of Rome", and contrast it with newly created "Gaius Julius Ceasar" in the region "Just for Laughs". Gaius uses an entirely different flag, different currency, animal and motto, and has never visited or telegrammed members of "The Empire of Rome", and it's obvious that it's coincidence.

However, if Gaius bounces around various Roman themed regions advising people to move out of "The Empire of Rome" and into his new "Roman Empire" region, that's illegal impersonation.
Frisbeeteria
10-10-2005, 18:57
The thought of my friends and I that were discussing it was that it could be used to confuse an invader region or such during an invasion: move a lot of similar nations in so they lose track of what's what.
That would be "NO".