Ugh not more leaving here. :(
Hopefully the following actually makes sense. And if you left, and you were a regular and you're reading this? Then really, you should reply. Don't just sit there and watch from afar otherwise then it just proves me right. Tiny part is aimed at the post before mine but the rest was sparked by everyone else "leaving".
The amount of people left just keeps on dropping, all of you didn't have to leave, you know. It's kind of like, one leaves and it leads to everyone else leaving? Like of the recent "leaving", either Anti or DA was first, then Karp, Syn, Vrai, now you, like... even you enjoyed battling didn't you? (lmao I'm talking like you'll actually come back and read this post, but whatever, it's aimed at everyone), or at least you enjoyed the community, or something? Just seems kind of like it's some craze to just leave because everyone else is and just sticking around and having fun. It's only one extra click at the end of the day, for something that once gave you joy and excitement. Not everyone hates every form of battling, there's one thing all of you at least liked, even up til I last heard from everyone (yes, that makes sense). Whether it's random battling, or something other than OU, isn't it the community that matters the most? It's not really aimed at Pokedra, but literally before you all decided to leave, you all were fine. To be honest I'm kind of talking to a blank wall here, but whatever, I want to get it out. I've been here for around a year. Luckily I came at a time when a lot of you were still left here and yeah, people said dumb things, people's attitudes did turn people away but somehow I didn't say "yeah no this isn't for me". I stayed, something I don't usually do with new things I try. And all the people who were supposedly turned away because of the attitudes? Yeah actually they never came... so maybe CBC was better off with this "different" community than having people who stay five days and run away. idk, but I know that everything is too much effort for everyone, really. It's too much effort to stay, too much effort to care, too much effort to do anything. I personally don't really rate because I know PlatDude will cover most of what I'd say, and the only places I'd really rate in otherwise would be in-game but in the last few months posts have had like, 5 replies per thread for others. I should rate, but I don't, yeah, at least I still care about the other things, though. Yeah, rating is boring as everyone's all said so it's not really that... it's more of a lack of caring. It's too much of an effort to care, or bother.
Really out of anyone I feel the worst for Wolf. He's left here trying to revive a community where everyone basically backed away or left and gave up. What about battling? Are any of you still going to do it? What about the fun any of you had - even back in your S&M days? Do they not matter? Because just backing away and leaving is kind of leaving that impression that none of it really mattered to you guys. Everyone had all these ideas, yet nobody really did anything. I know people lately who said they care or would try to do stuff and just haven't even bothered, or just let it slip your mind or something. Maybe by all of you leaving just means that S&M/CBC was only a community that intimidated people and that it was nothing more, that it was never a battling community, just a clique using it as a means to pass time? Because that's the kind of impression I'm getting now.
Most of you are still around, I see you viewing profiles, or I see you on MSN, or I see you in other places. You are there, you're just over it. CBC could make a comeback, oh easily it could. The people are still around. Being busy with your lives? Nope, I see you stalking a Pokemon forum in your time, or complaining about how it sucks, or whatever. There was at least some part of battling all of you liked, whether it be DP, something in BW, or something as complicated as DW Triples. idk. But there was something. You could get other people interested if you hate how the future of battling is going.
Trolling? Yeah, that happened a lot too. And if you guys spent less time trolling instead of battling, or joining tournaments and doing nothing, or leaving for the pettiest of reasons, then maybe we (yes, we, the five or so of us left) all wouldn't be in this boat. And yeah, without all of you, that means the future suffers. Anyone who wants to battle in the future doesn't have the amount of wiser people to guide them or complain about their sets, which'll spark them to actually DO something and say "oh wow they think I'm bad why don't I fix that", rather than just going along blissfully just making changes in RMTs and not really understanding. Like, yes, that isn't a great method, but it's still something, even having those better people around makes you want to improve, it motivates you to want to try. Even if you guys didn't stay for the battling then you could've stayed for the community.
I know most of you don't really care for PC or whatever now, but I'm sure you guys made at least a few friends in your time here. Those should still matter, really. Will the new people who come along actually bother to join the community? Kind of doubt it, most will probably end up leaving out of boredom for nobody really keeping them here or anything.
Like, I think of most of you in my mind and I think, yeah really, no, you didn't have to leave. It just seems like it's all set up to prove something or show how badass you are, with all the blogs and everything. That's what the rest of us see, or think at least. That you're just saying who can make the best leave, who can stay away longest, who can stalk the most, or whatever. That's what it seems like from here and really if that's true... that's kind of sad.
I'm not going to give up trying to get new people here. It's probably futile but whatever, some people have to care, even if the rest don't.