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re: OU Metagame Discussion Thread Moderation

This generation, our team wanted to take a more relaxed approach to moderation. This is hugely because of the nature of OU as the flagship tier for Smogon as a whole. We are a hotspot for new blood, which encourages a great amount of player participation. We value this a lot, and have wanted to encourage opinions and thoughts from every ilk of player, regardless of experience and background. In general, this has been successful in terms of making players heard and opening up opportunities for community participation.

However, because the thread has been heavily saturated by miscellaneous one liners in recent weeks, we have been informed of people feeling uncomfortable participating or not feeling as though it was worthwhile due to the overall consequences of our moderation style. We have received many reports about certain posts as well. As such, the moderation team will be more aggressive with moderation going forward, and also will be most likely nominating new moderators in the near future to account for this change in moderation style.

Please read the following:
  • Miscellaneous or tenuous one-liners or posts that break the forum/Smogon rules will be deleted. If a major announcement or shift occurs, we will lighten up for a little bit.
  • Repeated offenses will be given a Lurk More, a 1 point infraction.
  • Repeated Lurk More offenses in close proximity will lead to a week-long thread ban (as a default), but the duration can change circumstantially. This means you will be unable to post in the thread until the thread ban expires.
To be clear, we are not trying to discourage you from participating or having fun with your posts. Inexperienced opinions are not necessarily going to be deleted; it ultimately comes down to how you participate, and the nuance around your arguments/posts in general. Citing/contextualizing evidence and thorough explanations are good examples of this. If you have any questions about this or want feedback on a post before making it, don’t hesitate to PM me or anybody else on the moderation team. Thank you.
 
re: the Stall Empire Discord Server

Recently, a major member of our community and administrator of the original Stall Discord server had been permanently banned as a result of platforming banned users by giving them positions of power in said server.

This user pruned the original Discord server and is now attempting to repopulate it by mass-messaging people. There is a chance you have received one of these messages in the past 12 hours. This Discord server not only features several banned users in positions of power, but the users in question are known hugely for being extremely dangerous. They have been previously involved with serial doxxing and spreading very bigoted rhetoric. One in question has a community backing of other banned users, which makes this especially alarming. To be clear, this is not the "Big Stall Official" server, run by SupaGmoney.

While normally it is not our place to police off-site servers, participating in communities with serial doxxers is a line we will draw. OU leadership and Senior Staff do not endorse this server, and want to make a formal announcement to make our stance on it clear: being complicit of this Discord while participating in it is strictly prohibited.

If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to message me or a member of Senior Staff. Thank you.
 
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