GatoDelFuego
The Antimonymph of the Internet
In the famous rules at the top of every forum, I've always kind of wondered about this section:
"General stupidity is banned. This includes linking to porn sites, shock sites, “lol cats” or anything else in that vein. Similarly, we'd ask you to keep discussions of anime to a minimum. Smogon is interested in the competitive aspect of Pokemon, not whether or not Ash beat Lt. Surge on his first try! The discretion of the moderators is supreme in the enforcement of all rules, this one especially."
Don't we have a ton of subforums specifically not related to the competitive aspects? A forum, for a start, but also orange islands, art, writing, irc, programming, etc. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to reword this small section so it doesn't make it sound like anything exclusively noncompetitve is automatically and completely frowned upon?
"General stupidity is banned. This includes linking to porn sites, shock sites, “lol cats” or anything else in that vein. Similarly, we'd ask you to keep discussions of anime to a minimum. Smogon is interested in the competitive aspect of Pokemon, not whether or not Ash beat Lt. Surge on his first try! The discretion of the moderators is supreme in the enforcement of all rules, this one especially."
Don't we have a ton of subforums specifically not related to the competitive aspects? A forum, for a start, but also orange islands, art, writing, irc, programming, etc. Perhaps it would be more appropriate to reword this small section so it doesn't make it sound like anything exclusively noncompetitve is automatically and completely frowned upon?