Maybe we just need to accept that any game has its driving forces, and to compromise maybe we should put a serious limitation on how many suspect tests we do, to reflect how serious we used to take banning things. Maybe one every 6 months instead of one every month? That would actually give people a chance to play the game instead of constantly thinking about banning things they don't like, and it would certainly detract from the ban-happy attitudes that I know I'm not the only person complaining about.
While I don't fully agree with the ban-happy sentiment some users have with the current Suspect test, I agree that we need them to be less frequent. Our first suspect test this gen was
weeks after the Smogon Server was up, with the second one coming right after the end of the first one. I don't think anyone would complain about the bans in the first Round (fuck you Skymin), and few would disagree Round 2 wasn't just too chaotic, but... Round 1 should have been an emergency ban, called only by whenever (if?) we realized Darkrai and Skymin were "too much".
Instead of letting the metagame develop, we instilled into the community the notion that something
was wrong with the metagame before it even existed. Then Round 2 came and while we still had what many considered a legitimate threat, we never
played the metagame, but tested it instead, and now, with Round 3, even with many claiming the metagame has no suspects, we are for some reason still "testing" it, and then we have people nominating Latios and Reuniclus and Excadrill and Blaziken wtf and... after
one week of Round 3. Can't we just... call it done, abort this Round and come back for discussion only a couple months from now?
Our problem isn't that the community is too ban-happy these days, it's that we tell them we
need to ban things. It kinda happened in 4th Gen when PR posters came around with the Order of Operations thread, but even then it was "okay" because those were Ubers the community felt could have a chance of being demoted to OU in a metagame they were playing for years; now we have people testing the metagame non-stop for a couple months, believing "we have a problem" because we told them so and having issues with a certain pokémon/playstyle because they're seeing them all day long because everybody else is laddering to get voting rights to ban something (because we have a problem, after all), so they also ladder night and day so, by the end of the Round, they may finally have their say on the pokémon. By banning them. And then a new Round starts, apparently with us
still having a problem, then someone blitzkrieg the ladder with some absurd strategy involving some top-OU pokémon, and we get back to the starting point.
Uncharted Territory should be a subforum for metagame discussion, but the only relevant thread there is the Suspect one. Why don't we delete UC and move the Suspect thread to Blind Voting? By doing so, people can discuss and bandwagon their votes easier, and we don't get to read any more horrible warstories. Win-win situation.