I respectfully disagree, the reason it seems that the player-base on Beta has overall lower abilities is because our player base is much smaller. A smaller player base inevitably leads to a smaller amount of good players, creating that illusion. I'm fairy certain if there was a way to quantify the "average" abilities of Smogon's player base and Beta's player base they would be about the same.
Also, although I do agree that ranking is largely irrelevant for players who don't frequent Beta, the fact is that if you have been on Beta long enough to "be tired of playing bad players," then you go there enough to have a high ranking.
I'd like to point out that I'm not referring to the entire Smogon Community when I say this, only those who are too idiotic to realize that Smogon is just bigger, not better than PO. Get off your high horses, bashing the PO community is pretty stupid, considering everything that's going on in Smogon right now.
Im kinda with kokoloko, there is no reason to say the beta players are better or worse. If we were that superior we would dominate the rankings, would not we?
Please dont make this thread a "Beta sucks discussion", its the server we all have been using (and will keep since the smogon server is rigth now down, hope not for good). I get anoyed too by some random stuff (i almost got sweept by a Butterfly Dance Butterfree lol) (yeah i suck at stop set uppers, ok?), but genneraly the people in Beta are at the smogon average, if not better, they only dont keep the track of our standarts, thus are more unpredictable (for us, of course), and im pretty sure thats what makes most of you so angry at Beta playes
Thats just childish
Anyway, i think they deserve our respect, we are just different (i know how chesee that sounds, but its the one and only truth)
In other news, how long will the server be down? I just stared like 7 matches, then it kicked me out, and now it doesnt even is in the server list. Dont tell me if its like the Poke Lab or shoddy ones!