So if your group accomplishes what I have been tryingto do with my groups, maybe I can retire as a social group leader.
What I want smogon to hve is one or more large groups where people meet each other, get to know each other, and most of all battle each other.
I have not been in TRC in about 6 months, but when I was a member there was no real battling going on, and not much talk about pokemon.
BABA was great for a while, but then I started spending all of my energies dealing with Bstar. The group kind of got away from me in as far as people got used to posting whateve they wanted and it came down to two things being posted all the time - crude humor and arguments about Bstar.
The one thing I worry aobut with BALD is it may be too structured. In BABA when I was real active, I started a lot of random threads that got people talking to each other. It was good because we were still abttling, still had fun posting stuff and joking around, but I think people respected me and did not post a bunch of junk. But when every Joe can start as many threads as they want and continually push the line as far as appropriateness, then things kind of break down.