We have no teams to make an RMT archive. Any purpose it could fulfill is better served by the one Smogon will make (for Gen 5) anyways, namely showing new users what a good team looks like.
There are quite a few to put in the archive, some of yours, mine, beachys and quite a few more good ones from the past. All are good for the archive in one way or another. Some are flashy and some arent but will be included for various reasons. I just thought it would be like "hey if i post a team I could be in that archive some day!" for newer users.
The whole point of a "badge" for contributors is to show that we appreciate what contributors do. Doesn't an emblem accomplish that? I know they're meaningless but Smogon-type badges don't exist on PC...because PC isn't Smogon. Unless you're proposing that badges should be exactly like Smogon's and they will mean something (in the case of Smogon I think there's a badges members forum or something like that), then I'm curious what it would be. Just use emblems though. Just from a personal standpoint, I've contributed a ton to this forum. I don't feel the need to showcase it with some flashy copycat badge that has no purpose besides to seem important when in reality it's just an emblem with a different name.
That is exactly why i want them. Emblems, not to be mean, are a joke. No one takes them like they mean anything. Badges would actually mean you've actually done something significant and are deserved and mean something.
The problem with the 5 stars thing is that there are no RMTs to 5-star, and while I get that the whole purpose is to motivate people, just as these other two measures are, I think that we're just kidding ourselves. I don't mean to be a defeatist/debbie downer/pessimist, but we've tried gimmicks to get our regulars active in the community in some way and with almost no response. While I'm not personally against rating threads (what harm is there in that?), I am against restricting it to some arbitrary "elite" group which is basically sending the message that only us great experts are truly fit to deem certain threads good or bad. While the function itself is not a big deal at all, it's the symbolism that counts. Also, why flatter the veterans with any kind of privilege? I don't think any of us have earned it, truthfully. I know it "works" (I don't know how you can really measure the success or failure of being able to 5-star threads haha) on Smogon, but on Smogon the regulars actually *gasp* post and rate teams on a regular basis. But to your general point, it would be nice for good RMTs to deserve recognition in some way.
Yeah thats really what i wanted to emphasize. To actually encourage teams and good discussion threads going up. As for the only reason for restriction, i dont want people to abuse it that was the reason for that lol. Though i guess we could always reverse people's 0 and 1 star rating.
But I think Wolf hit the nail on the head, as RMTs have become more flashy and less about actually getting help. IDK, maybe it's intimidating to post a team for HELP when regulars are posting teams that are mostly for show or to say "hey look, I used this awesome Salamence mega team to destroy the ladder!" Maybe an RMT archive would even add to that, IDK really. Either way, I think when our regulars actually post teams they generally do a good job of just getting to the point and not being too flashy. But I think that loose rules (lol as if we enforce them) with RMTs would allow for RMTs that are mostly for help. I think it would be a good idea to stress that they don't have to be works of art.
You're right about that. Its irritating though when your regular members don't post. :\
Beyond that, I don't really support any added motivation or incentive we could give our regulars to post and rate teams not because of some symbolic stance but because I think it's futile. If turning new users into new members of the community through rating their teams and helping them so that we can get active again isn't enough incentive to post more then I don't know what is. Rather, I think it would be a good idea to make resources available to everyone so that there is no fear or anything like that to post and people will feel like they CAN make mistakes and there are only positive results from rating and posting teams. I know that D_A and Wolf have flirted a bit with a team rating resource for everyone. That sounds like the most sensible approach instead of trying to woo people with some poser Smogon badge or anything like that.
Thats the problem. I really don't think people think of it that way or we'd be more active right ? XD
