Welcome to Smogon! This is the forum where basically... everything about Smogon is found. That includes a place to introduce yourself (so fitting into the community is easier!)
The purpose of this thread is so you can introduce yourself, you can get chatting with older Smogoners (and other new Smogoners, like yourself) and hopefully form a few friendships from this too.
IMPORTANT THINGS
You can post as much as you want in this thread.
The cool thing is now you can introduce yourself, and if someone wants to know a bit more about you, they'll send you a reply here, and you can essentially hang out here at first. Once you feel familiar with someone, you can take the conversation to private message or visitor message. Obviously if things go a little too off-topic we'll suggest you take it privately, but while you're getting started here this is your hangout!
Only new users should introduce themselves, but older returning members can introduce themselves as well.
While only relatively new users (or returning members) can introduce themselves, we'd love it if our older members and mentors greeted people in the thread here and replied to their posts.
Finally, please don't post more than once in a row, thanks!
Also, don't worry about your English, a lot of people on Smogon don't speak English as a first language, so we're certainly not going to judge. Just be yourself and we'll be happy with that!
Also, don't feel rejected if nobody replies to your post, the intro thread team can be pretty busy and might not get the chance to reply, but know that your post was definitely read, and we're glad to have you in the community.
If you have ANY questions though, or concerns, PM skylight, Fluke, QueBien or Chesty and they'll help you out straight away.
DO YOU FIND POSTING HERE REALLY AWKWARD?
If you find posting in this thread really awkward and don't know what to say, here's a few things you can discuss that can break the ice.
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If you have the time, please do reply to 'What brought you to Smogon?'. We're interested in knowing what exactly brought you here!
On another note if you need help around here, you can use the Help form!
Final note: You can obtain a badge from helping out here.
The purpose of this thread is so you can introduce yourself, you can get chatting with older Smogoners (and other new Smogoners, like yourself) and hopefully form a few friendships from this too.
IMPORTANT THINGS
You can post as much as you want in this thread.
The cool thing is now you can introduce yourself, and if someone wants to know a bit more about you, they'll send you a reply here, and you can essentially hang out here at first. Once you feel familiar with someone, you can take the conversation to private message or visitor message. Obviously if things go a little too off-topic we'll suggest you take it privately, but while you're getting started here this is your hangout!
Only new users should introduce themselves, but older returning members can introduce themselves as well.
While only relatively new users (or returning members) can introduce themselves, we'd love it if our older members and mentors greeted people in the thread here and replied to their posts.
Finally, please don't post more than once in a row, thanks!
Also, don't worry about your English, a lot of people on Smogon don't speak English as a first language, so we're certainly not going to judge. Just be yourself and we'll be happy with that!
Also, don't feel rejected if nobody replies to your post, the intro thread team can be pretty busy and might not get the chance to reply, but know that your post was definitely read, and we're glad to have you in the community.
If you have ANY questions though, or concerns, PM skylight, Fluke, QueBien or Chesty and they'll help you out straight away.
DO YOU FIND POSTING HERE REALLY AWKWARD?
If you find posting in this thread really awkward and don't know what to say, here's a few things you can discuss that can break the ice.
- Your favourite Pokemon
- Are you on PS?
- What you plan to do here
- Things you might need help with
- A little background info about you in real life, if you're ok with sharing that
- Favourite Pokemon games
OTHER
If you have the time, please do reply to 'What brought you to Smogon?'. We're interested in knowing what exactly brought you here!
On another note if you need help around here, you can use the Help form!
Final note: You can obtain a badge from helping out here.
Pre-Contributor Conditions For Smogon Info Hub
- Be active in both Simple Questions as well as Introduce Yourself
- Actively be involved in Info Hub for a five month period (you don't have to post everyday, but have a presence)
- Have no active infractions or sketchy history with other areas of the site in the last five months
- Post detailed welcomes (don't just link a whole ton of things, talk about the user, chat to them as if you've been friends for years)
- Follow up on the people you've introduced over VMs (this is purely so that getting a badge nomination through IS has evidence outside of the forum that you're actively helping. about a month after you've welcomed them, check up on them, see if they need any help. you don't need to do this for everyone but users who you've gotten along quite well with in the thread you should probably check up on them).
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