Community:Polcompball Communities

Political Compass Balls, Ideologyballs, or Polcompball, refers to visual depictions and satirizations of the interactions and relationships between political ideologies, most often in the form of digital comics made in Microsoft Paint. PolCompBall originated as a spin-off of Polandball and the Political Compass Memes subreddit. The first PolCompBall community was established on Reddit on November 9, 2019, and has since spawned sister communities and spin-offs of its own.

Central communities

Primary communities refer to those within the PolCompBall network that are managed or endorsed by the r/Polcompball moderation team.

Reddit

The earliest and largest PolCompBall community r/Polcompball is considered to be the central hub for PolCompBall-related artwork and activities, with 30,000 subscribers as of July 2020. The subreddit is focused on allowing users to share high-quality, humorous and thought-provoking original comics. Lower-quality content is directed towards the sister subreddit r/Polcompballanarchy. Associated Reddit communities include r/Polcompballcommunity (oriented towards community discussion) and r/Polcompballart (for non-comic art pieces).

There are also Polcompball-related communities that are not affiliated with the official subreddit, like r/NewWackyIdeologies (Which is a sub for showcasing ideologies which don't exist in the real world) and r/Seussianism (Which is for short Dr. Seuss-style poetry about political ideologies) and r/Grej (Which is a sub for Off-Compass ideologies)

Discord

The first Polcompball Discord Server was created on January 26 2020, the server was centred around discussion as of politics and other topics among the members of the community, general meming around as well as a place to discuss issues relating to the discussion of the subreddit and the wiki. On September 9th of 2020 the server got warned by the discord staff, causing a large panic among the community and a creation of a large amount of spin-off servers. These include the /r/Polcompball server, the Polcompball Creator's Guild and The Polcompball Bunker which is a semi-private polcompball server ment for people within the public servers which are trusted enough not to misbehave. The first P.C.B. discord server was archived on September 26th of 2020, available to join and see but with the ability to chat disabled on all channels.

There has also been off-shoot servers that were meant for specific sub-sections of the P.C.B. server's community such as The Democratic of Moody, the Teenage Traditionalist Tandem, and Philosophy of Politics; These communities are not officially affiliated with any of the official polcompball communities.

The /r/Polcompball Discord was created on September 19, 2020 and is the official discord of the subreddit, the server has a focus on the creative parts of the polcompball community mainly art and wiki-editing staying away from discussion of controversial political opinions.

FANDOM

The official PolCompBall wiki, created on January 14, 2020, aims to be an unbiased repository for political ideologies across the various political spectra, as well as a catalogue of the best works the community has to offer. Articles and artwork on this wiki are expected to abide by the Editing Guidelines and Art Guidelines respectively. Content that fails to meet these criteria may be added to the Polcompball Anarchy Wiki, which welcomes original and satirical ideologies.

Peripheral communities

Secondary communities refer to PolCompBall-centric communities that are independent of the main subreddit and its moderation team.

FANDOM

While r/Polcompball was created in 2019, the concept of Polandball-inspired political ideology characters dates back to 2014, with the conceptually similar but inactive Ideologyball Wiki being established then. A more recent but unrelated wiki, Ideoligyball Wiki [sic], was created on February 23, 2020.

Ruqqus

Ruqqus, a website that aims to provide a free-speech alternative to Reddit, holds two small PolCompBall guilds, +Polcompball and +PolCompBalls. Both guilds were created in June 2020.

Amino

Amino, a mobile-based app, is home to a small PolCompBall community.