The question here is, did that have anything to do with the subforum? Personally, I have a hard time believing that anyone who has been around as long as those individuals would have suddenly started thinking anything like that when the subforum came into existence, and in my mind, that is a consequence of simply the meta being what it is, and nothing to do with the name. On the other hand, if that does have something to do with the subforum, then said users clearly failed to read either the forum description or the forum rules, and no matter what we do anywhere on all of Smogon, if people refuse to read the rules, we are not going to get people to follow them. The latter case here would be especially unfortunate, seeing as users like that should really know to read the rules.
Frankly, I think the much bigger issue here is not that people think that CAPs are for the CAP metagame, but rather, they have no reason to believe otherwise. What I mean by this is that,
while it is obvious to people in the CAP community that we make Pokemon for OU, no one looking in from the outside would know that. We don't say in in our threads. We don't say it in our rules. If we have a problem,
our first response should be to increase awareness of what we DO make Pokemon for, and not try and simply tell people what we do not do. As soon as you can show me where we have it in big bold that "CAPs are made for OU" I will agree that the problem stems from the lack of big bold "CAPs are not for the CAP metagame."
I really just feel that people are trying to look for a problem where there really isn't one. This "confusion" if it exists, is nothing new. I believe that if peopole have actually been paying attention, they would notice that we haven't suddenly started seeing more of this than in the past. Its a little thing that has always been there, and if anything, I personally have noticed less of it,
among new users who we should be most concerned about, than usual in most places since we have had a forum specifically saying that we do not make Pokemon for the CAP metagame. If veterans are the ones getting more confused, then the problem is with a Smogon culture that allows veterans to not read rules, and not anything to do with the metagame.
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For what its worth, I really don't appreciate the whole "threat" thing on your part
Birkal . While agree that we don't want confusion, this is not really a moderation issue. If Doug, as the head admin wants to remove something, that would be one thing. As much as we make it seem otherwise, this is a dictatorship if it needs to be. However, in any other situation, this is a community decision making process. The head mod position as defined by Doug is an organizational one, and by the set out definition, has nothing to do with higher authority. The PRC put this in place, so if the PRC wants to change it, then then PRC can. If Doug wants to change it, Doug can. That's it. Threatening usage of power that one does not rightfully possess is what has led to past leadership splits that we do not want to repeat. I wish that stuff like this didn't need to be brought up here, but the way people have been talking, I feel it is necessary to say. Lets work any issues we have out as a group, and not make this messy when it doesn't have to be.