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Smogon Simple Questions & Suggestions Thread
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and how do i get selected in world cup tourneys?
As for the World Cup, it is a team tournament. This means that you can sign up for it, but you may not be signed to your team. (Your team being the team of your region).
To be recognized and signed, some teams hold tryouts, but you also may need some individual notable tournament wins or recognisable accomplishments.
aight thanks homie
Yes, there are many people who live in the same place as each other that use Smogon. It should be noted though that on PS!, only one of you can join a given tournament as to prevent people from entering the same tournament more the once (or at least this was true 2 years ago, unsure if its still true).
how do i put those cute lil pokemon icons under my message?
If you are talking about Pokemon sprites/minisprites, this post should be a great explanation on how to use them: https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/rmt-rules-and-forum-guidelines.3647102/#post-8039583
Also if you want to add them to your signature, you can change it in the settings (click on your name just next to the notifications and on signature).
ay thanks bro
If there isn't one already, I think it would be a good idea to have some sort of guide to navigating smogon for newer users, alongside a more conveniently accessible means to see all the important resources and information that new users would want to familiarize themselves with. Since this site is naturally many people's first experience with forums, we (or at least 1v1 does in my experience) end up with a lot of newer users who at first have no idea what they're looking at and typically end up relying on external links (usually through PS) to get to the thread they wanna find for a long time before eventually picking up how to navigate through the forum layout.
The way that I feel would best accomplish the desired effect would be to add a button to the top bar on all forum pages, alongside "Home", "Dex", "Articles", and etc, labeled "Help", which takes you to the Information & Resources portion of the Site Info section, alongside having a new thread in that portion which houses the guide to navigating smogon. Ideally, all the resources that already exist there alongside the guide to navigating smogon should help newer users figure out how to use the site, find the things they want, how to conduct themselves, and etc, which will in turn hopefully boost people's engagement with the site in a positive way.
As for what would go in the guide itself, I think the main points would be as follows:
- The hierarchy format of smogon as a forum site
- How the search function works, with examples
- How all the threads in a subforum are initially listed in order of which ones most recently had a post in them, as well as how people can order them with the Filters feature so they can more easily find what they're looking for
- What each thread prefix means (at least as it pertains to the main tiering-related subforums that most PS users enter smogon through (Project/Resource/Tournament/Metagame/Signups/etc))
- Explaining that most subforums generally restrict or at least have particular criteria when it comes to making new threads and that you shouldn't make new threads without first reading the Rules of that corresponding subforum and/or messaging one of the Moderators of that subforum about what it is that you would like to post
- Explaining all the tools and tricks at your disposal for making posts (think along the lines of hyperlinking, posting images correctly, :pokemon:, bb code, etc)
- Anything else that may be appropriate to have that I didn't outline here
I'm sure some of these already have threads or posts somewhere that cover them, but they are either too buried that I can't find them or don't exist. Either way, having everything in one very easy to find thread/post would certainly help. Especially with the coming influx of interest as a result of Scarlet & Violet, I believe that having something like this to ease the learning curve of trying to figure out smogon will be immensely helpful in pipelining users to where they wanna go.
The way that I feel would best accomplish the desired effect would be to add a button to the top bar on all forum pages, alongside "Home", "Dex", "Articles", and etc, labeled "Help", which takes you to the Information & Resources portion of the Site Info section, alongside having a new thread in that portion which houses the guide to navigating smogon. Ideally, all the resources that already exist there alongside the guide to navigating smogon should help newer users figure out how to use the site, find the things they want, how to conduct themselves, and etc, which will in turn hopefully boost people's engagement with the site in a positive way.
As for what would go in the guide itself, I think the main points would be as follows:
- The hierarchy format of smogon as a forum site
- How the search function works, with examples
- How all the threads in a subforum are initially listed in order of which ones most recently had a post in them, as well as how people can order them with the Filters feature so they can more easily find what they're looking for
- What each thread prefix means (at least as it pertains to the main tiering-related subforums that most PS users enter smogon through (Project/Resource/Tournament/Metagame/Signups/etc))
- Explaining that most subforums generally restrict or at least have particular criteria when it comes to making new threads and that you shouldn't make new threads without first reading the Rules of that corresponding subforum and/or messaging one of the Moderators of that subforum about what it is that you would like to post
- Explaining all the tools and tricks at your disposal for making posts (think along the lines of hyperlinking, posting images correctly, :pokemon:, bb code, etc)
- Anything else that may be appropriate to have that I didn't outline here
I'm sure some of these already have threads or posts somewhere that cover them, but they are either too buried that I can't find them or don't exist. Either way, having everything in one very easy to find thread/post would certainly help. Especially with the coming influx of interest as a result of Scarlet & Violet, I believe that having something like this to ease the learning curve of trying to figure out smogon will be immensely helpful in pipelining users to where they wanna go.
How does someone get a type icon to show up on a post?
Like the ones that say "Heart" in this post. How do you do these for the regular types?
Like the ones that say "Heart" in this post. How do you do these for the regular types?
Yeah some of this stuff isn't explained, but there is a simple guide to Smogon.
There's one in this forum https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/introduction-to-smogon.3526346/
But adding the other stuff is a good idea.
the "signature" is the thing below a message that every user has access to (for example, mine is Cat.
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i just copied them from someone else but i dont know how to put the command like this : bulbasaur :
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i just copied them from someone else but i dont know how to put the command like this : bulbasaur :
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i just copied them from someone else but i dont know how to put the command like this : bulbasaur :
You can edit your signature by clicking the "Signature" button in your profile.
Unfortunately, to my knowledge there isn't any command for the type icons.
okay thanks
in that post, they've uploaded from image links, so if it's those you want, just copy the image links from there. Otherwise, just copy image links of the types you want and insert those (both with the picture button on the toolbar)
Ok, should've questioned it better, what I meant was how to use it, are the BB Codes just like in messages? likethe "signature" is the thing below a message that every user has access to (for example, mine is Cat.
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will work even in signature?
it'll work, you can even embed images or links there (its mostly a normal textbox)Ok, should've questioned it better, what I meant was how to use it, are the BB Codes just like in messages? like
Is there a way for a Smogon user to tell if another user is banned or permabanned?
The above text in the user profile doesn't tell the difference between them, correct?
If their pfp becomes a random Pokemon, does that mean permabanned?
The above text in the user profile doesn't tell the difference between them, correct?
If their pfp becomes a random Pokemon, does that mean permabanned?
afaik "banned deucer" is always accompanied by a random mon pfp and means a perma
Thanks - can someone who is certain, preferably a mod, confirm this for me please? I'm moderating things outside Smogon but we ban people who are permabanned on Smogon so knowing this is important for us - thanks.
It's mostly a habit of doing it show if someone is banned vs permabanned, as there's no other specific way it's displayed. You can prob come across older examples where this wasn't the case, but for most newer bans it's usually the case. If it's about questions about potential cross-punishments, one's always free to reach out to a member of SS and we'll give more details if possible.