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I mainly play National Dex UnderUsed and want a badge, but there aren't any NDUU tournament dates set yet so I don't think I can get a badge that way. I have 2 suspect tests under my belt for the tier (Iron Moth and Okidogi) and suspect a third suspect on the way soon with Pecharunt. How many more suspect tests do I need to do from the 2 I've completed now for a Tiering Contributor badge, or is there an easier way to obtain a badge that wouldn't involve straying away from NDUU?
 
I mainly play National Dex UnderUsed and want a badge, but there aren't any NDUU tournament dates set yet so I don't think I can get a badge that way. I have 2 suspect tests under my belt for the tier (Iron Moth and Okidogi) and suspect a third suspect on the way soon with Pecharunt. How many more suspect tests do I need to do from the 2 I've completed now for a Tiering Contributor badge, or is there an easier way to obtain a badge that wouldn't involve straying away from NDUU?
Good forum presences (making informative posts, engaging in discussions, assisting with resources) tend to be rewarded with pre-contributor, community contributor, or metagame resource contributor badges. These have fairly subjective thresholds and depends on your standing in the community as to whether you are nominated for those badges. Tiering Contributor for NatDex UU requires 6 votes if I remember correctly.

Tournaments would not award badges anyhow.
 
Thanks for the help
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Lowkey I'm trying to #own when it comes to smogon. I just want to like understand what is the best way to gather badges and aura on this website. I feel like i got the aura, but for some reason mods have passed me by when it comes to getting tier contributor on the forums man. i have the meta knowledge and have contributed to the suspect tests, but i rly just want a badge to show that I really have contributed to the metagames of this beautiful children's game. i've been top 5 in OU for gen 5/6/7, Ubers and other metagames when I get bored. just give me them template and i will follow it. we are all adults here(i hope), let me make the metagames swag af :)
 
You can find info on getting Tiering Contributor here - the short answer is that you're going to have to have some number of tiering votes, one of which must be within the last six months, and then you'll need to reach out to a community leader for that tier and request consideration.
 
Lowkey I'm trying to #own when it comes to smogon. I just want to like understand what is the best way to gather badges and aura on this website. I feel like i got the aura, but for some reason mods have passed me by when it comes to getting tier contributor on the forums man. i have the meta knowledge and have contributed to the suspect tests, but i rly just want a badge to show that I really have contributed to the metagames of this beautiful children's game. i've been top 5 in OU for gen 5/6/7, Ubers and other metagames when I get bored. just give me them template and i will follow it. we are all adults here(i hope), let me make the metagames swag af :)
With great honor smogon has it ways. I would like to be part of the community aside being a regular user. Is there any task before i can get a badge ?
If there is i'm up for it
thank you
There are two roads to take to farming badges and aura on the site:

Road 1: play a lot in suspects and tours, earn your TC badge quick, and then move into one of the competitive help sections such as tutoring, team rating, tour hosting, or posting well in the tier subforums (or all the above)

Road 2: contribute. Write analyses or GP, get your ladybug quick, and become further integrated in the contributions sphere through social media, the flying press, etc. Bonus points if you teach yourself basic html.

Only those with true aura on the site master both roads
 
Is there a place where all of the different functions you have when making a post are documented? Stuff like how to add a pokemon sprite, or a time stamp or embed a different thread(currently struggling with this one).
I do not believe so. The closest thing is the general BBcode help page which contains some tags not shown in the base editor like PLAIN, and the first two are custom features that have at least been documented in the Small Forum Updates thread as they have been added.

The third may be referring to a feature added in Xenforo 2.3 which I have used in this post. It is documented along with other Xenforo 2.3 additions in the Smogon 2024 Upgrade Data/Mechanics Research thread, where linking a post directly will add a preview of it, though this doesn't appear in Preview mode while writing/editing a post.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933 becomes:

The link seems to automatically be translated into an EMBED tag as follows:
[EMBED content="post-10263933"]https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933[/EMBED]
 
I do not believe so. The closest thing is the general BBcode help page which contains some tags not shown in the base editor like PLAIN, and the first two are custom features that have at least been documented in the Small Forum Updates thread as they have been added.

The third may be referring to a feature added in Xenforo 2.3 which I have used in this post. It is documented along with other Xenforo 2.3 additions in the Smogon 2024 Upgrade Data/Mechanics Research thread, where linking a post directly will add a preview of it, though this doesn't appear in Preview mode while writing/editing a post.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933 becomes:

The link seems to automatically be translated into an EMBED tag as follows:
[EMBED content="post-10263933"]https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933[/EMBED]

I do not believe so. The closest thing is the general BBcode help page which contains some tags not shown in the base editor like PLAIN, and the first two are custom features that have at least been documented in the Small Forum Updates thread as they have been added.

The third may be referring to a feature added in Xenforo 2.3 which I have used in this post. It is documented along with other Xenforo 2.3 additions in the Smogon 2024 Upgrade Data/Mechanics Research thread, where linking a post directly will add a preview of it, though this doesn't appear in Preview mode while writing/editing a post.

https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933 becomes:

The link seems to automatically be translated into an EMBED tag as follows:
[EMBED content="post-10263933"]https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/smogon-2024-upgrade-thread-data-mechanics-research.3750983/post-10263933[/EMBED]
Thanks was particularly confused by the embeds since they dont show up in the post preview.

Prob not the place to ask this but any chance a place where all of these are documented gets made. Would be much easier for users instead of looking for scattered forum updates threads.
 
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