NationStates Jolt Archive

Hi,

This is my first attempt at creating an issue so I think I need some input.
I think some of the effects aren't funny enough yet, and I'm not so sure about some of the phrasing of the issue. I'd also want for people to suggest some game effects ([stats] change).

@@ANIMAL@@ Do Doing Damage

A highly publicised case of children playing with @@ANIMAL@@ do which was lying on the sidewalk has stirred up public interest on the matter. A demonstration on the steps of your governmental building is taking place.

[option]"This can't go on!" shouts Mothers and Men Against Droppings (MMAD) spokesperson @@RANDOMNAME@@, amplified by a loudspeaker with lots of feedback. "@@ANIMAL@@ owners have to be forced to remove their litter. We live in a civilized society! Won't somebody think of the children?!"
[effect]many people scoop up wanted criminal's @@ANIMAL@@ droppings for failing to pick up after their own

[option]"That's not going far enough!" rants @@RANDOMNAME@@, CEO of Merc-Chicken King, which recently filed for bankruptcy. "My company wouldn't be in this mess if it hadn't been for me inadvertently coming into that big meeting with @@ANIMAL@@ do on my shoe... The point is: the people responsible for these ‘things’ have to be harshly punished. Or have their @@ANIMAL@@s shot!"
[effect]people have to choose between the life of their pets or scooping up after them

[option]"This is ludicrous!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, a famous @@NAME@@ socialite. "People don't pay attention to their children and I'm the one who's going to debase myself by picking up after Mr. Bigglesworth? I think we should send social workers to make sure these so-called «concerned parents» are fit to raise children."
[effect]any children found playing in unsanitary conditions are taken away from their parents

[option]"@@ANIMAL@@ droppings in public spaces is a long standing tradition in @@NAME@@," explains eccentric art historian @@RANDOMNAME@@. "What we should do is create a program to educate people about this staple of our culture and explain to children that they shouldn't play with it, but admire it from an artistic perspective."
[effect]people from around the world come to @@NAME@@ using gas masks to see "The Smelliest place on Earth!"

[option]"I don't think there's a need to compromise," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Lateral Thinking. "Why not have pooping and non-pooping sections? People who don't want to have poop on their sidewalks can just move to the other side of town. Of course prices on the non-pooping section will skyrocket, but I'm sure that'll boost the economy. We can't lose!"
[effect]the poor have to navigate their sidewalks carefully to avoid rich people's @@ANIMAL@@ do

Okay...one, it should be @@ANIMAL@@. For two...no offense, but this is kind of stupid.

Okay...one, it should be @@ANIMAL@@. For two...no offense, but this is kind of stupid.

Very constructive and enlightening, thanks.

A suggestion for an Effect....

The first one... instead of saying that the inhabitants of the nation pooper-scoop... say what happens if they don't... something like, "many people spend many hours doing community service for not picking up after their @@ANIMAL@@"

:)

Umm...I actually thought it was a well written issue but that the subject matter was just too obscure or not something that would be made into an issue.

Is it relevant? Is it a problem which would be taken to the leader of a nation? This basically means that you don't send issues about what kind of bath sponge is better, or whether Harry Potter is better than Lord of The Rings.

Is it good? Is the idea a good idea? Issues about whether cheese should be compulsory or whether monkeys should have the right to wed humans are simply too weird and stupid to use. And strings of unintelligible gibberish will be deleted too.

Thank you Bazalonia.

To the other's:

I'm not from the USA, so I don't know, but aren't there places there where they have to scoop up after their dogs? They had to pass a law, didn't they?

On the other hand, I have yet to see a country where legalizing public nudity has been debated and there's an issue on it. I'm sure there are other issues as, if not more, irrelevant then the nudity one.

People keep saying they're bored with always having the same issues and when someone actually goes to the trouble of creating one the majority of feedback they get is this. Geez.

Having said that, it's immaterial. The ones to judge whether it is or not relevant are the editors. What I asked for was:

I think some of the effects aren't funny enough yet, and I'm not so sure about some of the phrasing of the issue. I'd also want for people to suggest some game effects ([stats] change).

It would be even funnier if "dog" was replaced by the national animal. In my case, I'd have buffalo dung on my streets! :eek:

It would be even funnier if "dog" was replaced by the national animal. In my case, I'd have buffalo dung on my streets! :eek:

That would actually make the issue a lot better in my opinion.

Yes some of the issues are petty obscure, for example the one about giving rights to androids. But your issue is just too irrelevant for a government to have to decide on.

Well written, but I think that this is about something to obscure to write an issue about.

Very constructive and enlightening, thanks.
Do you think that this is geniunly a problem a head of state would deal with?

I think not.

It would be even funnier if "dog" was replaced by the national animal. In my case, I'd have buffalo dung on my streets! :eek:

Will do.

To all the nay-sayers:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10668706&postcount=6

But your issue is just too irrelevant for a government to have to decide on.


OOC: The government here in the UK did consider the matter, and introduced a nationwide pooper-scooper law...

I think that is correct but I'm merely repeating editorial policy and that is that it has to be an issue that is widely debated and taken seriously by people nationwide. Yes I know some of them are obscure but making people pick up their dog crap? Never been too much of an international issue.