I'm honestly curious about other people's responses to this. Why do you do C&C work for Smogon?

I personally find that giving input allows you to be a better player, and receiving input from others has helped me learn about many things in the metagame I never knew before. I also find that it brings out the best in people, as we have to work together in order to get anything accomplished.

Ironic. I've just thought about this before I came lurking this social group today, lol.

I just wanted to improve my writing ability by writing analysis after analysis. I started thinking that being on the GP team wasn't helping with this as you're putting aside your own improvement time to help push another person's thread to be uploaded (I'm still okay though since it's work on my own free will and I don't like seeing so much backlog). I guess that's basically it. Kinda off-topic, but I'd like people to know that I think much better when alone. For some reason, when I get proofread edits for my analyses, I won't really question the change unless it's really awkward or wrong. This can be seen at my Girafarig analysis when Aeron proofread it. I honestly didn't like the change to the Overview's first part since it made the Overview jump right into action, which made it more awkward. I didn't refuse it though but I tried to. Oh, and that made me think of something else: understanding how other people perceive your own writing. I think my writing's pretty strange and I don't think that's going to change much. For instance, at Oglemi's Raticate, I still do not understand that first sentence at the Overview but apparently other people do.

Hmm... maybe overall, I just want to better understand people in a indirect method. I'm not so familiar with society at all.

Oh, also, seeing your own works on-site is a pretty cool feeling. Then you can look at your old works and see how crappy they were compared to your newest work. Har har.

I keep adding things here. I get to keep a close eye on laziness while doing posts/work here. It's actually kinda interesting.

Another edit lol. I always wondered; does your writing speak to you? Kinda like how your artwork speaks to you. I should focus on that a little more too when writing stuff here. I know this is for C&C, but I always wanted to write some Smog articles too just so I had more opportunities to write. Still looking for those opportunities. >_>

I'm an editholic. I think there was a feeling of guilt if I weren't doing my job as a GPer. I signed up for it so... yeah.

edit: no offense to anyone, just me talking.

I pretty much started contributing because I wanted to see my stuff onsite. I thought that would be the coolest thing ever. And now I have upwards of 15 analyses that I've either written or help write onsite. It really is the coolest thing ever.

Also, I wanted to do a few specific ones, especially Lickilicky and Ledian, because I knew if I didn't do them, someone else was going to do a shitty job with them, and I couldn't let that happen.

Oh, hey Oglemi, I've been thinking that exact thing too! I don't want people doing a shitty job on some analyses if I or someone of good authority and reputation doesn't do that analysis. But then again, I don't want to take all of the analyses for myself. You greedy grinchy Oglemi. =P

Hmm... anyway, if a analysis that is crap is being GPed by me, then I will by all means probably rewrite the analysis and call it GP 1/2. I don't see how the author will improve...

Definitely seeing my work on the site. I have 3 analyses done (5th Gen) and I just can't wait to see them there.

However I also started writing these to improve my qualities as a player. It really helped me improve my teambuilding skills.

3 things:

1) Getting badged!

2) Improving my writing.

3) Getting stuff on the website of the biggest competitive Pokemon site is awesome!

Getting badged is not at all my motivation. It is writing for the site that matters. Writing analyses and doing proofreads / GP Checks (more particularly the latter) also help me improve my English skills as a whole.

I got involved in C&C because it would be a huge ego boost for there to be even one article published on such a well-known and influential web site with the name "NixHex" next to it. Also, after reading pretty much every article and analysis on this site, my vocabulary and grammatical skills have improved so much, far beyond anything I learned up to college English classes (okay that sentence was awkward). I figured I'd put this new-found skill to work writing about something I love. A badge would be a cool bonus down the road, but it's not my biggest motivation.

I do it for fun! It's also good practice on writing essays which all scholarships force you to do these days! >_<

Meh, I didn't want to have a tangrowth in my userpage, but that's fine. Gotta show I'm one of you, y'know?

I thought seeing my stuff online would be the most terrific thing ever. Rising_Dusk's advice especially helped my improve as a writer for both Smogon and real life writing.