Greetings users and staff of PS!
My IGN is Daiquiri, used to be AmazingPolitoed as my smogon username, and I'm RO in the Spanish room. I'd like to talk about the withdrawal of HTML declares in public rooms and hopefully give my/our point of view on the matter.
The ability to use HTML in public declarations was a most valuable asset for us. They were a tool with which we could bring fun activities to users in an organized manner and announce them with images or links and they would have enough visibility for everyone to see while they wouldn't come off as some sort of pesky advertising. Furthermore, it was a quick and handy tool to even ease up the atmosphere sometimes or get the users to have a good laugh with us.
I talked very briefly with TI about it but he couldn't explain it very well to me other than "it was being abused" before I had to abruptly disconnect. Later I was told by other people that it had something to do with people posting buttons leading to private rooms. I don't know how accurate that is, but I think just taking HTML declares from all ROs due to two or three people not living up to the expectancies of this rank is a rather simplistic solution, and is in turn hindering those rooms in which the room owners actually give declares a good use, instead of taking care of people that are abusing their rank or the tools that come with it.
I really think this was a step back not in room management but yes in room dynamics and activities, and I see no reason why it should be taken away from us instead of applying discipline on the people that make a bad use of it. I'm sure other ROs along the PS public rooms feel the same way as me, but I'm hoping they will express their opinions here whether they agree or disagree with me.
Also while I'm at it I would like to thank Smogon and its staff to provide a channel of communication in which these sort of things can be talked about as a whole community.
Thanks for your attention. Regards, Daiquiri.
My IGN is Daiquiri, used to be AmazingPolitoed as my smogon username, and I'm RO in the Spanish room. I'd like to talk about the withdrawal of HTML declares in public rooms and hopefully give my/our point of view on the matter.
The ability to use HTML in public declarations was a most valuable asset for us. They were a tool with which we could bring fun activities to users in an organized manner and announce them with images or links and they would have enough visibility for everyone to see while they wouldn't come off as some sort of pesky advertising. Furthermore, it was a quick and handy tool to even ease up the atmosphere sometimes or get the users to have a good laugh with us.
I talked very briefly with TI about it but he couldn't explain it very well to me other than "it was being abused" before I had to abruptly disconnect. Later I was told by other people that it had something to do with people posting buttons leading to private rooms. I don't know how accurate that is, but I think just taking HTML declares from all ROs due to two or three people not living up to the expectancies of this rank is a rather simplistic solution, and is in turn hindering those rooms in which the room owners actually give declares a good use, instead of taking care of people that are abusing their rank or the tools that come with it.
I really think this was a step back not in room management but yes in room dynamics and activities, and I see no reason why it should be taken away from us instead of applying discipline on the people that make a bad use of it. I'm sure other ROs along the PS public rooms feel the same way as me, but I'm hoping they will express their opinions here whether they agree or disagree with me.
Also while I'm at it I would like to thank Smogon and its staff to provide a channel of communication in which these sort of things can be talked about as a whole community.
Thanks for your attention. Regards, Daiquiri.