(request) DELETE SMOGON NOW [decision pending]

[Divine Retribution]

No. Delete Smogon.

 

[doipy hooves]

https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ever-walked-under-the-heavens-ask-me-anything
this is still live and still a problem. [BANNED SHITHEAD] keeps posting his doxxing rmt and linking his discord. Can someone with an account over there please report some of his later messages and / or try to communicate to the staff there how big of a problem this thing is?

I added a report on there, but realistically I don't think the mods will take much action if they're approving the links in the first place and the mods have been light on removing external links (depending on the mod, maybe Mod_Pandaroo would be receptive), and there have been no bans since July* even for people like FlyPupKai who get a locked thread. On the other hand, nobody in the thread agrees with him and you have to read through most of the pages to even see his links again, so I think the best option is just for the thread to die out naturally. Overall it seems like the small regular userbase of the official pokemon.com forums generally don't know or care about him enough to take it seriously, so it just makes him seem foolish to anyone reading without context.

I think the new champion of the forums UnovanZorua sums it up best:

I did notice that there were these blanked out messages with no edited marker, which might be a unique censoring method.

*So I just found out that Mod_Champion got banned, and they were last active as most recently as last month on March 30th. This is very strange and raises many questions. Is there conflict in the mod ranks? Was Mod_Champion corrupt? Did a mod account get compromised? Do mods get banned if they have to retire?

The last mod edit by "Mod_Champeon" would be for keeping language friendly on the Pokemon forums.

I found this out from the "Lavos Copypasta 2019" thread where an imgur post with cursing appears to have been removed last year.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6900/lavos-copypasta-2019

In more positive mod news, the story of the forums gym challenge has begun and Mod_Bee loves the start of it:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10813/forums-gym-challenge-story

Ravenclawed1234 settled for the role of 2nd gym leader, while Josiah2580 gave up his guaranteed gym position to become a villain instead.

Overall I feel like the community has been pretty good at self-regulating even without mods taking direct action like before, as seen in the collective shunning response to a thread about feet which would probably fit in and be deleted back in July:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...that-every-game-should-have-a-barefoot-option

Nowadays the forum is mostly just brackets, though this was just a well timed screenshot and there are other occasional random topics that pop up as well, but clasingla is definitely one of the most prevalent posters and thread creators with multiple regular series. Meanwhile, TPCi_GarbageKing hasn't posted a new raid event since Luvdisc.

I haven't highlighted it much but clasingla's posting power has been growing steadily, accumulating 1190 posts in only 3 months of joining since January 18, 2024. I think this pace surpasses any of the top posters on Smogon but the meta is just different there.

This is also where I learned people are actually using the wall feature aside from that time in July when people were commenting on mod walls. I don't actually think you get notifications for these comments from what I remember.