UCS Poll#1: Russia's Colour

Russia's Colour?


  • Total voters
    362
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mowque

Banned
Why should I care about some old 'traditional' colors on maps I'll probably never see?

I say UCS should reflect AH.com traditions and customs!
 
I hope it won't end up like the 2000 presidential election...
Well, it can't, can it? The option that gains the most votes will win, so the only problematic scenario - er, problematic ignoring that one might not like the option that won, I mean - would be if the votes are 50/50, in which case I humbly suggests we keep the status quo rather than keep on debating this. If someone mistakenly votes for the wrong option, he or she can state it on the thread, and we can take that into account when tallying the votes.
 

Susano

Banned
Why should I care about some old 'traditional' colors on maps I'll probably never see?

I say UCS should reflect AH.com traditions and customs!

"Ah.com traditions and customs" is Thande now? ;) No offense to him, his UCS turned into quite a project of course, but quite many colours including Russian Gold were after all solely chosen by him - not that its necessarily bad, but you then cant really speak of "AH.com traditions and customs".
 
"Ah.com traditions and customs" is Thande now? ;) No offense to him, his UCS turned into quite a project of course, but quite many colours including Russian Gold were after all solely chosen by him - not that its necessarily bad, but you then cant really speak of "AH.com traditions and customs".
Well, it is a tradition, insofar that the UCS has had... a fair amount of influence... on maps in general on this Board, and the Russian Gold is one of the Great Old Ones of the UCS colours, so Russian Gold is pretty much an AH.com tradition by now.
 

Thande

Donor
Basically the question comes down to: Should Russia take its colour from this?

ru_bow.gif

russian_imperial_standard_1699-1917.gif


Or this?

russianheader.jpg
 

Susano

Banned
Not really. I dont even really care where green is derived from. I car ethat its a kinda standard in most maps, and hence so it should in the UCS.
 
"Ah.com traditions and customs" is Thande now? ;) No offense to him, his UCS turned into quite a project of course, but quite many colours including Russian Gold were after all solely chosen by him - not that its necessarily bad, but you then cant really speak of "AH.com traditions and customs".

The fact that something was created by one man originally once upon a time does not make it any less of a tradition. Just ask the hundreds of millions of English speakers who use Noah Webster's bizarre spelling reform program (programme?) every day.
 
Gold all the way. The green doesn't look very good expanded over such a huge landmass and since you guys have already been using that colour for a long time...
 
My vote breaks the tie! The tension is palpable! :D

Comrades, the fate of the socialist - ah, non-socialist-but-otherwise-politically-indeterminate Motherland is now to be decided by our actions. Shall the Indivisible Rodina be dignified with an autumnal colour redolent of bygone years, of great old trees that have shed their leaves and yet grown again with the spring many times before? Or shall it appear the colour of used mint chewing-gum? Choose!
 
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My vote breaks the tie! The tension is palpable! :D

Now, the fate of the socialist - ah, non-socialist-but-otherwise-politically-indeterminate Motherland is now to be decided by our actions. Shall the Indivisible Rodina be dignified with an autumnal colour redolent of bygone years, of great old trees that have shed their leaves and yet grown again with the spring many times before? Or shall it appear the colour of used mint chewing-gum? Choose!

My vote brought back the tie, so there. :D

GO Green!
 
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