Hey everyone, I’m back and I have some cool things in store. I will get to all the new posts and threads ASAP.
First of all, many congratulations to EnGarde for making Community Contributor. We appreciate everyone who posts and shows commitment for the community. EnGarde has only been on the forums for a few months but has done so much for us - exactly the kind of person we like having around. We value new users as well as those who have been with us for awhile or are badged. As long as you show respect for other users and have an earnest interest in playing Battle Spot, we will welcome you. I feel that our “lurk less” rule has been very successful because I see new users posting here asking questions and you guys are awesome in helping out - I barely get to post because you guys are so quick in helping with good and thorough answers lol. My approach to the community is that the best way to grow is to be inclusive; you don’t have to be a 1800+ rated player to be valued, though we will try to support each other so we will come to dominate the rankings!
The big project I mentioned before my vacation is Twitter. Follow at @TheBattleSpot! I’ve never used Twitter but I spoke to Smogon social media people to seek ways to promote the Battle Spot forum and I was told that Twitter was a great way to promote ourselves. If you have a Twitter, please share and retweet us and recommend us to friends. I promise content that isn't boring. I am more familiar with Facebook, but Facebook is much more difficult to promote imo and Fuckerberg hides 70% of whatever I post unless we pay him money. Please share/follow us if you have Twitter, we could really use the help! I mostly thought about ways to make us actually worth following so people have an incentive to check the forum out. Here’s what I came up with:
I have another thread idea coming up but I gotta find some good leads - a thread where we discuss Japanese blogs and strategies. Right now I’m sifting through hatena and 2ch for stuff since there’s no Japanese Smogon but these resources can offer valuable insights. I will continue to maintain the other threads, the viability rankings need a little bump.
I think the next serious effort to contributing to the Smogon site will be an updated differences between Battle Spot singles and Smogon tiers. We have a stickied thread but that predates Pokebank and therefore contains many inaccuracies that are not relevant to the current metagame. I also plan a guide for new players to BS Triples based on the CCAT and I plan to push Rotation for new players so non-singles formats don’t feel neglected - but those will be a bit down the road.
As always, feel free to PM myself or Hula if you have feedback about the forum. I myself am especially looking for ideas to further help new players get involved. Suggestions, complaints, something I/we can improve on, whatever you think needs to be done. Don’t be shy about being honest if it’s not positive feedback (but of course use common sense politeness). I’m here for you guys, we’re doing a great job growing and I suspect we’ll probably get some more activity once OR/AS comes out.
By the way, Battle Spot is confirmed for OR/AS and the next season will be concurrent with it so exciting times will be upon us all.
First of all, many congratulations to EnGarde for making Community Contributor. We appreciate everyone who posts and shows commitment for the community. EnGarde has only been on the forums for a few months but has done so much for us - exactly the kind of person we like having around. We value new users as well as those who have been with us for awhile or are badged. As long as you show respect for other users and have an earnest interest in playing Battle Spot, we will welcome you. I feel that our “lurk less” rule has been very successful because I see new users posting here asking questions and you guys are awesome in helping out - I barely get to post because you guys are so quick in helping with good and thorough answers lol. My approach to the community is that the best way to grow is to be inclusive; you don’t have to be a 1800+ rated player to be valued, though we will try to support each other so we will come to dominate the rankings!
The big project I mentioned before my vacation is Twitter. Follow at @TheBattleSpot! I’ve never used Twitter but I spoke to Smogon social media people to seek ways to promote the Battle Spot forum and I was told that Twitter was a great way to promote ourselves. If you have a Twitter, please share and retweet us and recommend us to friends. I promise content that isn't boring. I am more familiar with Facebook, but Facebook is much more difficult to promote imo and Fuckerberg hides 70% of whatever I post unless we pay him money. Please share/follow us if you have Twitter, we could really use the help! I mostly thought about ways to make us actually worth following so people have an incentive to check the forum out. Here’s what I came up with:
- Daily updates. Post of the day, set of the day, daily tips, it’ll be random but helpful tidbits to improve everyone’s game. The downside to Twitter is that I can’t post anything detailed due to character limit but if I have to come up with something original, I’ll hotlink the relevant post in this thread.
- Giveaways that are relevant to the current news and metagame. I am breeding the base forms of some of the new Megas atm, some will be RNG abused, all are awesome. These will be announced in advance.
- Promoting Battle Spot events, including the Battle Spot PS! channel. If you guys have something awesome going on irc or the PS! channel, lemme know and it’ll go up on Twitter.
- Pokemon news, ad nauseum.
I have another thread idea coming up but I gotta find some good leads - a thread where we discuss Japanese blogs and strategies. Right now I’m sifting through hatena and 2ch for stuff since there’s no Japanese Smogon but these resources can offer valuable insights. I will continue to maintain the other threads, the viability rankings need a little bump.
I think the next serious effort to contributing to the Smogon site will be an updated differences between Battle Spot singles and Smogon tiers. We have a stickied thread but that predates Pokebank and therefore contains many inaccuracies that are not relevant to the current metagame. I also plan a guide for new players to BS Triples based on the CCAT and I plan to push Rotation for new players so non-singles formats don’t feel neglected - but those will be a bit down the road.
As always, feel free to PM myself or Hula if you have feedback about the forum. I myself am especially looking for ideas to further help new players get involved. Suggestions, complaints, something I/we can improve on, whatever you think needs to be done. Don’t be shy about being honest if it’s not positive feedback (but of course use common sense politeness). I’m here for you guys, we’re doing a great job growing and I suspect we’ll probably get some more activity once OR/AS comes out.
By the way, Battle Spot is confirmed for OR/AS and the next season will be concurrent with it so exciting times will be upon us all.
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