These rules are for the Pokemon forums. Follow them, and prevent making us and yourself a sad panda.
These rules are bound to change. Make sure to check them once in a while. I'll try to keep the topic title edited with the most recent update time. If you're a mod, feel free to edit what you find appropriate. Perhaps all rules could be in one topic.
Not reading and following the rules puts you at risk for getting your posts edited / deleted, and you may be put into the "close to being banned" user group, which gets you an "I could be banned!" custom title, and strips you off the ability to post topics, edit your posts and a lot more. If you still won't learn, you will get your account banned.
1. First off, RMTs (Rate My Team topics) are a major part in this forum. If you're new here, feel free to ask questions in them, but please don't rate. Trust me, it won't help us and it will give you the reputation of someone who cannot read. Read guides, get more battle experience and ask questions of things you don't understand, and become a respected member of the community.
However, the best way to get more insight into battling is the Apprentice System, in which case you should be on this forum reading this topic.
2. Follow the rules from Carl's topic in RMTs. It goes for both posting a RMT and replying to one.
Especially this one should be read more:
3. Don't post too many topics (especially RMTs) in a short period of time. On the same note, don't double-post. Use the edit feature, it's there for a reason.
4. Do not post logs. If you have a battle you wish to share, then write a war story. Logs are long and mostly pretty boring. And if your battle is not worth the effort of writing up a war story about it, then it isn't worth posting. War Stories focus on your own writing style and enthusiasm, and should only have log parts where this is necessary.
5. Smogon focuses on the competitive aspect of Pokemon. Therefore, in-game rates, especially when you didn't beat the game yet, are pointless. Link-battles with friends, sure, that's competitive, but low-leveled stuff without the full access to TMs and Tutors and stuff are really not useful, they won't help anyone.
6. If you see something that is out of place, do not hesitate to PM a moderator about it, as we try to read most of this stuff, but might miss something. This is NOT an invitation for junior modding, so do NOT post in the topic "lol this should be locked" or "ban plox" or any other dumb things you can think of. If we see the post, We're perfectly capable of deciding if it should be deleted / moved, posting in the thread isn't going to make it any more likely to be seen.
Generally, this is all common sense. Again, mods, admins, feel free to edit out anything that shouldn't be there, and edit in anything I missed.
These rules are bound to change. Make sure to check them once in a while. I'll try to keep the topic title edited with the most recent update time. If you're a mod, feel free to edit what you find appropriate. Perhaps all rules could be in one topic.
Not reading and following the rules puts you at risk for getting your posts edited / deleted, and you may be put into the "close to being banned" user group, which gets you an "I could be banned!" custom title, and strips you off the ability to post topics, edit your posts and a lot more. If you still won't learn, you will get your account banned.
1. First off, RMTs (Rate My Team topics) are a major part in this forum. If you're new here, feel free to ask questions in them, but please don't rate. Trust me, it won't help us and it will give you the reputation of someone who cannot read. Read guides, get more battle experience and ask questions of things you don't understand, and become a respected member of the community.
However, the best way to get more insight into battling is the Apprentice System, in which case you should be on this forum reading this topic.
2. Follow the rules from Carl's topic in RMTs. It goes for both posting a RMT and replying to one.
Especially this one should be read more:
Carl said:
3. Don't post too many topics (especially RMTs) in a short period of time. On the same note, don't double-post. Use the edit feature, it's there for a reason.
4. Do not post logs. If you have a battle you wish to share, then write a war story. Logs are long and mostly pretty boring. And if your battle is not worth the effort of writing up a war story about it, then it isn't worth posting. War Stories focus on your own writing style and enthusiasm, and should only have log parts where this is necessary.
5. Smogon focuses on the competitive aspect of Pokemon. Therefore, in-game rates, especially when you didn't beat the game yet, are pointless. Link-battles with friends, sure, that's competitive, but low-leveled stuff without the full access to TMs and Tutors and stuff are really not useful, they won't help anyone.
6. If you see something that is out of place, do not hesitate to PM a moderator about it, as we try to read most of this stuff, but might miss something. This is NOT an invitation for junior modding, so do NOT post in the topic "lol this should be locked" or "ban plox" or any other dumb things you can think of. If we see the post, We're perfectly capable of deciding if it should be deleted / moved, posting in the thread isn't going to make it any more likely to be seen.
Generally, this is all common sense. Again, mods, admins, feel free to edit out anything that shouldn't be there, and edit in anything I missed.