Polcompball

Polcompball
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Founded	: November 9, 2019 : January 14, 2020 : June 25, 2021
	Alive GCO Member: Nguyenreich
	Kymiliane (de jure head owner) IAmSeamonkey (de facto head owner) 2x2Master Founding Froggers
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Polcompball, fully Political Compass Ball or even Ideologyball is a Countryball community that focuses on the political ideologies with major focus on political compass. It originated from r/PoliticalCompassMemes/ subreddit and Polandball. It is a member of Global Countryballs Organization and it is represented by Nguyenreich.

History

Note: This isn't very completed history. If there is something missing that was important, feel free to contribute into it.

Pre-Polcompball

Anarchyball was partly an ancestor of Polcompball. It was an first adaptation of ideologies as Countryballs. It was popular between early 2015 to late 2018.

But the first comic with ideologies were created by paczilla1 on DeviantArt. It all were uploaded on December 5, 2014. It did an apperance on other sites like funnyjunk.

Another ideologyball comic was created. It was uploaded on r/Anarchism subreddit by u/Voltairinede on December 9, 2014. It seems that Anarcho-Capitalism got a hair, which may be inspiration for Apoliticism design.

In around December 2015, this blog on WordPress has been founded.

The first archived connection between Anarchyball and the Political Compass was this post uploaded on September 18, 2016 on Know Your Meme.

This comic, uploaded on February 19, 2017 (potentially reupload), included some first well-known anarchist design. Edited version, uploaded on April 22, 2017, had some first socialist and communist designs.

On May 22, 2017, comic that included first Social Democracy design has been uploaded.

IncendiaryBullet era

Subreddit Foundation

On November 9, 2019, the Polcompball Subreddit has been founded by IncendiaryBullet. It was created because someone suggested that it would be created. That event started the Polcompball existence.

IncendiaryBullet promoted StormTigrex to the admin on December 3rd, 2019, being the first admin in Polcompball history.

New Icons

Original download: link

On November 15, 2019, TheGhostOfInky suggested new icons for ideological compass. It was originally with 25x25 because it was suggested to be the best by r/csshelp.

Designs

Ideologies collection: link (archived)

StormTigrex announced on December 6, 2019 that he will create an Polcompballpedia that would include the designs.

Proposed ideologies (WIP)

Ideology	User
Strasserism	u/Exospheric-Pressure
Platformism	u/psychicprogrammer
Alt-Right/Alt-Center/Dark Enlightenment
Eco-Fascism
Dirtbag Centrism

Inky Era

On August 21, 2020, TheGhostOfInky was promoted to Sysop by Monkeysszz.

Foundation of Wiki

On January 14, 2020, Polcompball Wiki has been formed by TheGhostOfInky, K-Tech and Monkeysszz. The first page was Anarcho-Capitalism and the second was Anarcho-Communism.

the Coup

The image of coup.

In early Feburary 2022, IncendiaryBullet was the victim of a coup led by SomedudeTM and Monkeysszz. Other members of this coup were BE, TheGhostOfInky, Atzyn and Founding Froggers. There were also some supporting members like Roxxagon, Steelsmasher, Denestaire and gaming.org. An unknown member leaked this plot to IncendiaryBullet, who went into shutdown mode. Threatened with the possibility of a permanent ban from reddit, IncendiaryBullet deleted his own account. Ownership of the subreddit fell to his alternate account 'americanfreeaboo', which SomedudeTM somehow gained control over. He immediatly lost it, again in unclear circumstances, and IncendiaryBullet named Gastro as his successor. Every mod was removed, though StormTigrex and BE were both soon re-added. Meanwhile, Monkeysszz remained owner of the Polcompball Wiki and Discord.

Some time after that StormTigrex left the community, though his account remained a moderator.

Buni / Aycee Era

Polcompball Forums

Logo of Polcompball Forums used for the short while

Polcompball Forums was the Polcompball server.

It was created by Rayz on around August 11, 2021 and the goal was reviving the old wikia forums that was abandoned during Miraheze migration. Rayz wanted to make PCBF official, but there are some problems. At the start it wasn't very moderated, because Rayz forgot to hire some mods. Because of this, Nguyenreich wanted to have mod here. So that's why it haven't been affilated with Polcompball Miraheze anymore.

On around March 16, 2022, Rayz wasn't an owner of PCBF anymore. Owner of the PCBF in this time was the joint account of Jedpilled, ItsDanny101 and Bowie.

On around May 20, 2022, there was some controversy around them. They started to hate Polandball, which made Ballmedia to intervene there.

On around July 10, 2022, Rayz nuked Polcompball Forums and lately it was deleted. Beryist Society is the current replacement of the dead PCBF.

There was some revival, but it all failed in October 9, 2022, when Rayz nuked PCBF again, this time for good.

Polcompball Discord Migration

If you want to join the archived Polcompball Discord server, link here

On June 1st, 2023, after the Discord warning because of fedposting, the Polcompball Miraheze Discord server was locked and server archived.

Free Polcompball Separation

Since the fascists were banned in Polcompball, Borker got pissed when Nguyenreich banned his friends cause of fascist views. So Borker on June 28, 2023 decided to create a Revolutionary Council which included Kultokrat and others. Since the PCBaller World happened on Polcompball Anarchy, they have to migrate. First they decided to use WikiDot, but they left because of incompatible license (WikiDot is 3.0, Miraheze is on 4.0). So finally they decided to host themself. First on Hostinger, but lately on Hostgator under the current pcbwiki.net domain.

On September 1, 2024, the wiki got expired and it was no longer available, but Kultokrat said that it would came back again, and it happened. Two days later, they revived.

Kymiliane Era

March 2024 PCB Ownership Election

When Nguyenreich decided to step down as head owner of PCB, he announced that an election would be held to choose his successor. The election occurred in two rounds on the 16th and 17th of March 2024. While there were many candidates, there were clearly two frontrunners: Kymiliane and 2x2Master. When the final results came in, Kymiliane won by a margin of 59.1% to 2x2's 40.9%. The election was extremely poorly conducted and this caused a great amount of drama and controversy, but ultimately a peaceful transfer of power was made. This was the first and so far only time that a head owner was chosen by election.

Early Kymiliane Period

Kymiliane soon declared that there would not be any elections in the future, and that the staff votes would no longer be binding. This began a period of personal autocracy where the staff team played an almost entirely advisory role. During this period, several controversial decisions were made including allowing FPCB members to join the server and banning Nguyenreich. This made Kymiliane very unpopular and triggered a mass exodus. Most migrated to Femboyreich, where Nguyenreich was mounting an opposition, while others moved to the subreddit discord server or private compass spheres.

PCBvision

PCBvision is a song contest which many users may send to the staff. The people may judge them and pick the favourites ones. The winner is picking from the most rated one.

First edition, started in March 24, 2024, was directed by Rayz. The winner song was 3000 by Shirobon, picked by Pirate Tails.

Second edition, started in August 2, 2024, was directed by Pirate Tails, but shortly after it was by Afunhumaniter, but since he left, there is no one who would host it. It was shortly cancelled, but it finally happened.

Late Kymiliane Period

After the publication of the May 2024 edition of the PCB Activity Report revealed that the official Polcompball discord server had fallen to fourth place, Kymiliane decided to initiate a dramatic shift in policy to prevent the server from collapsing. This change is now known as 'the great backflip'. She unbanned Nguyenreich and partially reversed her unpopular position on FPCB. Most significantly, she brought in recently promoted Admin * IAmSeamonkey to host the first ever moderator elections on the 9th of June 2024, which were a sweeping victory for pro-Nguyen candidates. These elections were widely regarded as being much better run than the ownership election and IAmSeamonkey was made the server's official election organiser. They expelled the most unpopular mods and gave the administration a new sense of legitimacy.

Following this, Nguyenreich was made an owner and the server began to grow again as those that had left after the ownership election returned in droves. over the next months, the staff council became more organised and the rules became more formalised, a process spearheaded by * IAmSeamonkey and Democratic Republican Patriot. Kymiliane made efforts to step back from autocratic style leadership and allowed the staff council to become more influential.

Global Countryball Organization

Nguyenreich helped writing the GCO Manifesto. After it's publication, Nguyenreich signed this manifesto.

r/Polcompball reunification

r/Polcompball was splited from Wiki due to disagreements. Polcompball Subreddit became more familiar with Free Polcompball, causing Polcompball Wiki to make his version of subreddit.

After r/Polcompball and Polcompball Wiki relations became more friendly, the unification started to begin. They started to unify because of eventual understanding that the wiki and sub can be run separately caused the reunification. On July 30, 2024, they announced that r/Polcompball and Polcompball Wiki are united, and the old server renamed to the bunker and completely disconnected from polcompball. Kevin and Somedude got owner on the official server and Reddit mods also got own positions in Discord server. Many users came back to Polcompball, causing its activity to surge that month.

August Elections

On the 16th of July 2024, Nguyenreich pushed for the creation of political parties for moderator elections. He created the first political party, the Party of Social Reorganisation, and over the following weeks several more parties were created, most of which no longer exist.

On the 19th of July, the Polcompball Elections Act came into force. Written by * IAmSeamonkey, it put into writing all of the rules and regulations around how elections were to be conducted. It was amended multiple times over the next month, with the final amendment coming on August 18, which introduced a procedure for if mods refused to take their position upon being elected.

Over the following weeks, there were weekly opinion polls and a handful of by-elections that allowed people to get used to the party system in preparation for the election at the end of the month. There was unofficial one, done by DualPlay.

The Election Period officially began on August 19th, with three days for candidate nomination, and seven days for campaigning. Each day the parties debated different subjects of * IAmSeamonkey's choosing.

On August 20, the Polcompball Institutional Powers and Responsibilities Act came into force. This regulates mod powers.

Elections started on August 30, 2024. Marked users (mostly FPCB users), underage, alt-accounts and less active members did not have voting rights. The elections lasted to the September 1st, 2024.

August 2024 Moderator Election result:

• Party for Fair Moderation: 25 votes (34.25%) 6 seats
• Party of Social Reorganisation: 22 votes (30.14%) 5 seats
• Giganite Party: 11 votes (15.07%) 2 seats
• Independents: 6 votes (8.22%) 1 seat
• Gensokyo Alliance: 5 votes (6.85%) 1 seat
• Renaissance Party: 3 votes (4.11%) 0 seats
• Patchwork Party: 1 vote (1.37%) 0 seats
• Total valid votes: 73 (68.87%)
• Total invalid votes: 33 (31.13%)
• Total votes: 106
• Turnout: 10.6% (+2.8)

On September 2, 2024, the a runoff was held between the two independent candidates as they were tied. Preache won by a margin of 60-40, but was caught up in an anti-casualist purge brought about by drama between Kymiliane and Somedude. During the election campaign, was caught blackmailing another user to provide intelligence on a suspected plot against him. For this, the owners voted to suspend him from the ownership council for one month for abuse of power.

Earlier, on the 7th of August, Kymiliane asked * IAmSeamonkey to hold a Referendum on the Party System sometime after the august elections. It was announced to the public on the 13th of August. On the 4th of September, It was announced that the date for the referendum would be to be the 13th of September.

On the 4th of September, Rayz got unbanned.

On September 14th, 2024, announced referendum which decides whether there should be a party system or not. The referendum was closed on September 16th, 2024 with the major votes for (69.4%).

Political Parties

Name	Leader(s)
Party of Social Reorganization	Nguyenreich
Party of Fair Moderation	2x2Master
Gensokyo Alliance	DualPlay  Arakhne/Iron Felix Yelvia
Giganite Party	Gamepab BE
Larp Party	quis.contra.nos
Conservative Casual Party	TheAutisticKaiser
National Democratic Polcompball Union	apocolips6924
Bryantist Degeneracy Party	bryant4000