I've stated time and time again in the Stark thread that I'm only interested in seeing the results of a Stealth Rock test. I don't care if it gets tested or not. How can I be expected to form a constructive, persuasive argument if I don't care enough about the issue? The only time I would want Stealth Rock to be tested is when there is nothing to test because I do not want to settle on one metagame.
How the hell do you verify opinions??? Oh wait, you can't. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and no one's is correct.
1) If you don't care enough, this probably means you haven't put in enough thought into the issue at all. This probably means that your reasoning is
personal, rather than
rational, which is exactly what we are
not looking for. This is akin to wanting Deoxys E banned because "It is a form of Deoxys". It is a personal opinion, rather than rational.
2) Opinions can be justified. In fact, defending your opinion on the basis "well it's my opinion" and not being able to back it up is just opening yourself up for ridicule. "Everyone is entitled to their opinion as long as their opinion isn't an ignorant one". Suppose that you are talking to someone, let's call him X, and X starts to bash Jumpman. Upon hearing it out, you ask him, "do you even know who Jumpman is?" and the user tells you "no, i have no idea who he is but I felt like bashing him". Are you going to take his opinion seriously? Opinions need to be
backed up, and well thought out, and then "everyone is entitled to their own opinion".
3) If you're interested in seeing the results of a Stealth Rock test, there are logs from a tournament just
waiting to be analyzed.
If this is indicating anything, it's that I need to battle more often. I would love to try and get good at this, but I can't build a team to save my life and I'm constantly held back by all of the random elements in the game. (because sound decision-making means nothing to the RNG ><) I would like to be an influential voice on the metagame, but apparently nothing else wants me to be...
So you are admitting that you don't understand how to play Pokemon, or you haven't fully grasped the game yet, but you are attempting to be an "influential voice on the metagame".
Do you understand how ridiculous this sounds? How is anyone supposed to take you seriously (aka "influential") if you don't even know about the game you are trying to influence? How are you supposed to be an influence in something you don't understand? Do you see the danger in this?
P.S. I'm waiting for Game Freak to lower the cap on Stealth Rock's damage to 25% because I blame them for creating a move with so much more damage potential than Spikes. I'm not holding my breath, though.
But it doesn't stop you from making posts like this. you admit that you don't understand the game, but you are literally wishing Game Freak would make a change to the game, and your reasoning is "it does more damage than spikes".
This is
exactly the kinds of opinions that are absolutely
not needed in this entire process. This is why Jumpman and I had to literally wave through the bold voting process and pick out votes, and the exact reason why we set a cap on who can actually vote in the process. Just because you have a badge that doesn't mean that you should voice your opinion within this process. You should voice your opinion if you first, understand the game, second, understand the process. You undermined both, which is very disappointing.