Plenty of progression-based games have a prestige system where you can reset upon reaching max level/rank/whatever to earn a reward. The only strange thing is that, by the sounds of it, it happens automatically in this case.
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Plenty of progression-based games have a prestige system where you can reset upon reaching max level/rank/whatever to earn a reward. The only strange thing is that, by the sounds of it, it happens automatically in this case.
"a finch that chooses to eat larger seeds is different from a finch that eats tiny seeds"
--the buddha or confucius or some other old fella like that
--the buddha or confucius or some other old fella like that
The ghosts of the past never truly fade...
I think they just allowed twitter
I realize the world that is Smogon- OFF, you could just be having the most random thing in your head and make it real, but for once it's a CONTROLLED CHAOS which I love, keep up great work mods, (I also love being able to wake up and see someone wants to know what they think of a 3d box.) 
I could believe there was probably a H*tler s*gn on the website, though I can't say for sure due to waiting for if/how the mods would respond and letting other recent events pass to see how to continue. But after 1.5 years, the mods have finally addressed this long-standing infamous thread by marking all of OP's posts as removed and by "Unknown", though the posts quoting them still exist and the first post of the thread still seems to be there. They don't seem to be banned exactly, but I guess it's something.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-walked-under-the-heavens-ask-me-anything/p21
In other news, there seems to be yet another newly introduced bug with approved posts that makes them multiply to an absurd degree, spanning over three pages/30 posts in the extremes.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16785/whats-it-worth
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13459/forum-assistance-requests/p5
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16604/forums-gym-challenge-battle-gym-4-dragon/p5
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16559/could-pokemon-be-made-in-the-80s/p1
TheJeffers got his post duplicated over like 3 pages here.
Finally, here are some shorter examples of multiplied posts:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16656/how-has-kyurem-not-fallen-over-yet/p1
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16743/according-to-you-mysterious-pokemon#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/13459/forum-assistance-requests/p5
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16604/forums-gym-challenge-battle-gym-4-dragon/p5
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16559/could-pokemon-be-made-in-the-80s/p1
TheJeffers got his post duplicated over like 3 pages here.
Finally, here are some shorter examples of multiplied posts:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16656/how-has-kyurem-not-fallen-over-yet/p1
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16743/according-to-you-mysterious-pokemon#latest
And everyone is generally excited for the Pokemon Presents, while wanting to leave Gen 9 behind quickly.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16030/hey-wait-a-minute#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...dictions-for-the-next-z-a-trailer-info#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...on-day-2025s-content-and-announcements#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16780/pokemon-day-2025#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16805/pokemon-day-predictions/p1
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...on-day-2025s-content-and-announcements#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16780/pokemon-day-2025#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16805/pokemon-day-predictions/p1
Aside: L_LostWord is an up and coming new poster who joined less than 2 weeks ago and has almost 300 posts already and 3 stars, so already they seem to be on a more productive path than some others. It seems like at least 100 of those posts were made in their first 3 days and involved a lot of bumping of threads.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16461/updated-introduction#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/16467/praise-be-armaldo/p1
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/15755/things-i-don-t-want-to-see-in-pokemon-forums/p3
It feels like there's always some new bug on those forums. And when they finally fix one, another one crops up in its place.
Posts held for approval are a consistent source of headaches. Not only does it often fail to update the forum listing and notify users you reply to or quote when a post appears after being held, but it is unclear what triggers the system to hold posts in the first place. Long posts seem to trigger it more frequently, either because you are more likely to say certain words inadvertently in a longer post, or because posts beyond a certain length are set to always get flagged.
This duplication glitch is yet another layer of frustration.
Posts held for approval are a consistent source of headaches. Not only does it often fail to update the forum listing and notify users you reply to or quote when a post appears after being held, but it is unclear what triggers the system to hold posts in the first place. Long posts seem to trigger it more frequently, either because you are more likely to say certain words inadvertently in a longer post, or because posts beyond a certain length are set to always get flagged.
This duplication glitch is yet another layer of frustration.
are you the real thejeffers from the official pokemon forums. omg. it's an honour.
Yep. It me.
I used to go by Jeffers for most things online, but when that name was taken I'd usually resort to The Jeffers or some variant, and that was also true for the Pokémon website back during the Black and White era when I made the account.
I first became aware of this thread a few months ago, when someone posted on the Pokémon forums asking what we thought of Smogon. That led me to assume that people on Smogon were talking about us somewhere, and since I had this old account I used to lurk with back when I dabbled in Showdown, I thought I'd log in and see what was going on.
The Pokémon forums are a bit of a throwback in internet terms, to the era of official message boards, before that was all replaced with official Facebook pages, Twitter accounts and Discord servers. But it is an environment that I like.
I had assumed that they would block or delete any posts critical of the games or the companies associated with the franchise, but that seems to have proved mostly untrue, as evidenced by my long posts of whinging.
So I have stuck with it.
The official Pokemon community forums have added new default sort and filter options within each forum category.
According to TheJeffers's thread on the situation, this was added (or at least first noticed) yesterday.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...g-and-filtering-options-for-each-forum#latest
From what I can tell, the filtering options are all completely useless and show nothing regardless of choice.
Otherwise from what I can tell, the default "Hot" sorting seems to show threads in order of their latest reply, as is shown in the thread listing and was the default before:
"New" sorting in comparison is not based on latest reply order at all, but rather date of thread/first post creation. I can't really show this in particular just from the listing, but this seems to be the case by opening various threads and noting the duplicate Sun and Moon threads being back to back.
- Would you survive ZA edition: April 5
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-your-favorite-pokemon-into-the-real-world/p1 - April 8
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/17944/any-tips-for-high-level-raids-in-s-v#latest - April 9, 1:29PM
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/17947/my-10-pokemon-special-for-me#latest - April 9, 3:25PM
Lastly, the "Top" sorting order seems to be mostly represented by 2023-era threads on the surface, though not quite based on view count, so I initially suspect these threads to be ordered by some total of positive reaction count or so on the first post as is used for the "Best Of" listing, which I will try to confirm here.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4892/whats-your-favorite-pokemon-d#latest - 5 Disagree/43 Agree/121 Like/8 LOL (172 positive)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5308/no-battle-tower-in-scarlet-and-violet#latest - 1 Disagree/39 Agree/14 Like (53)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5328/any-pokemon-conquest-fans#latest - 20 Agree/25 Like/1 LOL (46)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...lack-2-the-highest-rated-games-to-date#latest - 1 Disagree/12 Agree/22 Like/1 LOL (35)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4915/riolu-weird-color#latest - 2 Disagree/2 Agree/5 Like/20 LOL (27)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5255/your-pokemon-partner-for-life/p1 - 1 Disagree/1 Agree/21 Like/1 LOL (23)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5410/who-is-the-best-duck-pokemon/p1 - 12 Disagree/6 Agree/12 Like/2 LOL (20)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...iolet-prepare-to-face-a-mighty-delphox#latest - 4 Disagree/3 Agree/13 Like/1 LOL (17)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5295/seviper-or-zangoose#latest - 1 Flag (Abuse)/2 Disagree/6 Agree/8 Like (14)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5201/aight-what-are-everyones-favorite-starters/p1 - 1 Flag (Spam)/1 Disagree/3 Agree/10 Like (13)
Overall it seems that "Top" sorting is consistent with summing up the total Agree/Like/LOL reactions while ignoring Disagrees, as otherwise the best Duck pokemon thread would suffer for it. It is still possible a flag could count against a discussion's score and I tried to find a suitable counterexample.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/2516/how-do-i-report-offensive-pokemon-designs#latest
Eventually I decided to look at the very last post in order and found the current oldest post so far sitting at 0 reactions, so I suppose the score at least doesn't track negative numbers.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/467/friend-safari-in-x-and-y#latest
According to TheJeffers's thread on the situation, this was added (or at least first noticed) yesterday.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...g-and-filtering-options-for-each-forum#latest
From what I can tell, the filtering options are all completely useless and show nothing regardless of choice.
Otherwise from what I can tell, the default "Hot" sorting seems to show threads in order of their latest reply, as is shown in the thread listing and was the default before:
"New" sorting in comparison is not based on latest reply order at all, but rather date of thread/first post creation. I can't really show this in particular just from the listing, but this seems to be the case by opening various threads and noting the duplicate Sun and Moon threads being back to back.
- Would you survive ZA edition: April 5
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-your-favorite-pokemon-into-the-real-world/p1 - April 8
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/17944/any-tips-for-high-level-raids-in-s-v#latest - April 9, 1:29PM
- https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/17947/my-10-pokemon-special-for-me#latest - April 9, 3:25PM
Lastly, the "Top" sorting order seems to be mostly represented by 2023-era threads on the surface, though not quite based on view count, so I initially suspect these threads to be ordered by some total of positive reaction count or so on the first post as is used for the "Best Of" listing, which I will try to confirm here.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4892/whats-your-favorite-pokemon-d#latest - 5 Disagree/43 Agree/121 Like/8 LOL (172 positive)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5308/no-battle-tower-in-scarlet-and-violet#latest - 1 Disagree/39 Agree/14 Like (53)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5328/any-pokemon-conquest-fans#latest - 20 Agree/25 Like/1 LOL (46)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...lack-2-the-highest-rated-games-to-date#latest - 1 Disagree/12 Agree/22 Like/1 LOL (35)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4915/riolu-weird-color#latest - 2 Disagree/2 Agree/5 Like/20 LOL (27)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5255/your-pokemon-partner-for-life/p1 - 1 Disagree/1 Agree/21 Like/1 LOL (23)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5410/who-is-the-best-duck-pokemon/p1 - 12 Disagree/6 Agree/12 Like/2 LOL (20)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...iolet-prepare-to-face-a-mighty-delphox#latest - 4 Disagree/3 Agree/13 Like/1 LOL (17)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5295/seviper-or-zangoose#latest - 1 Flag (Abuse)/2 Disagree/6 Agree/8 Like (14)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5201/aight-what-are-everyones-favorite-starters/p1 - 1 Flag (Spam)/1 Disagree/3 Agree/10 Like (13)
Overall it seems that "Top" sorting is consistent with summing up the total Agree/Like/LOL reactions while ignoring Disagrees, as otherwise the best Duck pokemon thread would suffer for it. It is still possible a flag could count against a discussion's score and I tried to find a suitable counterexample.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/2516/how-do-i-report-offensive-pokemon-designs#latest
Eventually I decided to look at the very last post in order and found the current oldest post so far sitting at 0 reactions, so I suppose the score at least doesn't track negative numbers.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/467/friend-safari-in-x-and-y#latest
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Another minor change I have noticed is that the stars/ranking indicator on profile pages are light blue now.
(current on left, old on right)
For now, I leave you all with the incarnation of a recent urge of isolated nostalgia for a 'better' time that we can only dare to envision once it has passed: a history that begs to be known again, that can never be fully recreated, yet was still experienced and perhaps could only ever be understood by those present at the time, still haunting the remains of what once was and may still be a Forum.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18030/what-made-the-forum-so-good#latest
Have the forums really passed their peak? It's probably not my place to say, if anyone's, but the peoples' instinctive trends and their posts of wisdom have certainly changed over time, though the community stories have actually been going pretty strongly lately too.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18031/type-cheeseburgers#latest
Also, an actual major milestone I kept putting off mentioning because I don't really play TCG Pocket, but the forums are actually very commonly used for TCG Pocket discussion and feedback. Of all people, NoahLaprasForum made this trading post congregation thread that has over 9000 replies (913 pages) and 144k views, which is probably the most replied thread by far on the forums. So that might be the Pokemon Forums' main claim to fame these days that is very much worth noting.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/15964/trading-post-pokemon-tcg-pocket/p1
Though it doesn't claim the highest view count since "Redeeming Codes" has over 190k views for some reason for a thread that's still just filled with "how to redeem" spam from new accounts.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/1694/redeeming-codes#latest
In the meantime, I'm also trying to get a discussion on the Switch 2 pricing going, which may be a slightly late hot topic but surprisingly hasn't really been discussed yet.
(current on left, old on right)
For now, I leave you all with the incarnation of a recent urge of isolated nostalgia for a 'better' time that we can only dare to envision once it has passed: a history that begs to be known again, that can never be fully recreated, yet was still experienced and perhaps could only ever be understood by those present at the time, still haunting the remains of what once was and may still be a Forum.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18030/what-made-the-forum-so-good#latest
Have the forums really passed their peak? It's probably not my place to say, if anyone's, but the peoples' instinctive trends and their posts of wisdom have certainly changed over time, though the community stories have actually been going pretty strongly lately too.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18031/type-cheeseburgers#latest
Also, an actual major milestone I kept putting off mentioning because I don't really play TCG Pocket, but the forums are actually very commonly used for TCG Pocket discussion and feedback. Of all people, NoahLaprasForum made this trading post congregation thread that has over 9000 replies (913 pages) and 144k views, which is probably the most replied thread by far on the forums. So that might be the Pokemon Forums' main claim to fame these days that is very much worth noting.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/15964/trading-post-pokemon-tcg-pocket/p1
Though it doesn't claim the highest view count since "Redeeming Codes" has over 190k views for some reason for a thread that's still just filled with "how to redeem" spam from new accounts.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/1694/redeeming-codes#latest
In the meantime, I'm also trying to get a discussion on the Switch 2 pricing going, which may be a slightly late hot topic but surprisingly hasn't really been discussed yet.
RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT RED ALERT
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/video-games
I was greeted by an error when trying to open the Pokemon Video Games forum, as my browser autofills to by default. I thought I might have been banned at worst, but the next moment of truth upon opening the main forum page was something I could never have expected...
The forums are evolving. It seems the mods/admins have finally responded to the complaints of forum stagnation (which have developed since my last post, but I'll get into that later). Apparently TCG Pocket trade thread spam is a much bigger problem than just being confined to the trading post.
But most importantly, the Pokemon Video Games forum and its general Pokemon associates are no more...
The General Pokemon forum has been completely removed, replaced with the Community Lounge (with a sky Rayquaza aesthetic), Play! Pokemon has been renamed to Pokemon Organized Play with a new image but still has the same subforums, and there is a Help & Feedback Center.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/community-lounge
The Community Lounge currently features 2 subforums: Welcome & Introductions (marked in purple with a star icon and Pichu) and the Pokemon Square with a blue background and Raichu. It seems most of the previous Pokemon General forum threads are being moved into Pokemon Square, but some are in Welcome & Introductions. I suspect some threads may silently disappear in the transferal process.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-this-is-the-new-place-for-discussions#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/help-feedback-center
The Help and Feedback Center currently features a Forum Walkthrough & FAQ, Feedback Center, and Help Center.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/forum-walkthrough-faq
Nothing is present in the Forum Walkthrough/FAQ for now, nor the Feedback Center.
The Help Center currently has 1 thread moved into it, which you can tell because the Categories section only shows 1 thread in the whole category.
Lastly, I just wanted to give an update on "What made the forum so good".
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18030/what-made-the-forum-so-good/p1
Something of note in this thread is that it's a "Question" type thread and clasingla has been marking every post as a "Best Answer", which seems to make every post show up on page 1 despite there being multiple pages worth of posts internally.
And perhaps, even the ghost of a forgotten legend may yet return to this court of public opinion, just as the official Pokemon Community forums rises from the ashes and a new era begins...
EDIT: Here is the new Pokemon Organized Play banner for reference. It features Mewtwo and Incineroar.
Some Pokemon Organized Play discussions for reference, under the strange choice of a URL with an accent and not mentioning organized play:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/general-pokémon-discussion
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/video-games
I was greeted by an error when trying to open the Pokemon Video Games forum, as my browser autofills to by default. I thought I might have been banned at worst, but the next moment of truth upon opening the main forum page was something I could never have expected...
The forums are evolving. It seems the mods/admins have finally responded to the complaints of forum stagnation (which have developed since my last post, but I'll get into that later). Apparently TCG Pocket trade thread spam is a much bigger problem than just being confined to the trading post.
But most importantly, the Pokemon Video Games forum and its general Pokemon associates are no more...
The General Pokemon forum has been completely removed, replaced with the Community Lounge (with a sky Rayquaza aesthetic), Play! Pokemon has been renamed to Pokemon Organized Play with a new image but still has the same subforums, and there is a Help & Feedback Center.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/community-lounge
The Community Lounge currently features 2 subforums: Welcome & Introductions (marked in purple with a star icon and Pichu) and the Pokemon Square with a blue background and Raichu. It seems most of the previous Pokemon General forum threads are being moved into Pokemon Square, but some are in Welcome & Introductions. I suspect some threads may silently disappear in the transferal process.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-this-is-the-new-place-for-discussions#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/help-feedback-center
The Help and Feedback Center currently features a Forum Walkthrough & FAQ, Feedback Center, and Help Center.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/forum-walkthrough-faq
Nothing is present in the Forum Walkthrough/FAQ for now, nor the Feedback Center.
The Help Center currently has 1 thread moved into it, which you can tell because the Categories section only shows 1 thread in the whole category.
Lastly, I just wanted to give an update on "What made the forum so good".
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/18030/what-made-the-forum-so-good/p1
Something of note in this thread is that it's a "Question" type thread and clasingla has been marking every post as a "Best Answer", which seems to make every post show up on page 1 despite there being multiple pages worth of posts internally.
And perhaps, even the ghost of a forgotten legend may yet return to this court of public opinion, just as the official Pokemon Community forums rises from the ashes and a new era begins...
EDIT: Here is the new Pokemon Organized Play banner for reference. It features Mewtwo and Incineroar.
Some Pokemon Organized Play discussions for reference, under the strange choice of a URL with an accent and not mentioning organized play:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/categories/general-pokémon-discussion
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