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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.
A minor and major update with the Pokemon forums:
A recent change noticeable in the images of my last posts is that all posts now have a 3-dot icon in the top right. Previously this menu had the edit posts option in the past, but it brings up an empty menu now even on your own posts.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10932/did-anyone-else-get-the-forum-feedback-quiz/p1
Apparently there is a survey for feedback being deployed on the forums today. I got it when going to page 2 but accidentally closed the window while trying to take a screenshot, but fortunately clearing my cookies worked to make the survey appear again, though incognito mode didn't. Either way, I can show you the full details of what Pokemon.com is looking for to help develop the forums further. It doesn't seem like this link is unique or account-specific as I got it right after being logged out, and they don't want to identify you anyway, so I will post it here, but I will also detail what the survey asks here as well.
https://pokemonintl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cSeR3ep2VExOD4i?Q_CHL=si
Page 1 shows this is a TPCi operation and is specifically about the Pokemon Community Forums, which I guess is their proper title.
Page 2 asks for your age in from 10-12, 13-15, 16-20, and then in increments of 10 up to 60. Note there is no back button.
Page 3 asks for gender identity with multiple selections allowed.
Page 4 starts off by asking how you found the forums. Now technically I found the forums due to Pokemon Unite using them to post their patch notes in English officially for the first time, which was linked on Twitter in December 2022.
Fun fact: Screenshots from that time show that the default avatar wasn't always a Poke Ball and is probably some vanilla forums default avatar. And these were actually the latest topics at the time in December 2022.
But I think they're referring to the specific ingame link to the forums in Unite, so I decided to just go with "Social Media", though I feel like that refers more to people discovering the forums from when it blew up last year. I guess arguably it's closer to Pokemon.com because it's from an official Pokemon account and they have links on there too. And I've been seeing the forums and its threads come up a lot lately when searching as well, but overall I have to say social media.
Page 5 asks what brought you to the Pokemon Community Forums today. As mentioned I originally came to read patch notes, but now I guess I technically browse topics for the sake of it more than anything else as most lurkers would, though most of the regulars probably fall under connecting with other fans. I imagine the TCG Live audience still mainly uses this to report bugs. As noted earlier, TPCi_GarbageKing has been late on posting about events since the Luvdisc raid event. We also have the first Other/open-ended option here.
Page 6 asks if you accomplished what you came for, and I did though I only saw the one thread about this survey before doing that instead.
Page 7 is a 1-5 scale question with all the options ranked relatively to the word easy. Personally I find it pretty easy to read new topics thanks to there being a page that shows all recent topics across the forum, though if I didn't know then it would be kind of tedious to open all the subforums with no previews.
Page 8 asks if you have an account.
Page 9 asks which topics you are interested in viewing in the forums, though by topic they actually mean the main subforums. You can select multiple options here. I imagine most people are here for either Pokemon General, Unite, or TCG Live.
Page 10 asks about your favorite features of the forums, with multiple selection allowed but being asked to select 3 (you can select more than 3 but I don't know if it lets you progress or they just invalidate your response). Personally I have to say choosing an avatar is a main pro, even with the limited selection it makes people more recognizable thanks to the brand. Adding reactions and earning badges is something that Smogon users can relate to as well, but in terms of helpful features I have to say bookmarking/following threads is pretty useful to get notifications. There is a setting to turn on notifications for all threads you posted in, but this doesn't seem to trigger anymore if your post was manually approved. Following categories on the other hand is pretty pointless as it's basically just following a subforum. And you can't really message other forum members like in PMs unless you mean on their activity page, which is something I have not explored much.
EDIT (2024/05/09): I got a notification for a thread my post waited to get approved in so I guess they fixed it.
Page 11 is where it gets interesting with the survey asking which features you would like to see come. Personally I think official community events would be appreciated, though I don't know if the mods would handle it as well as the users have been making their own events already with brackets and stories, but I could see it being inspired by those and potentially engaging if not completely sanitized by company guidelines. I would like to see more avatar options, but those seem like they will happen eventually anyway and aren't make or break for me. Customizing displayed topics doesn't seem totally necessary to me right now. More ways to earn points and badges is an interesting proposal, with the current system being mostly Vanilla Forums defaults, so the mods would have to come up with something original like the community events or just add in unused reactions like Promote or Awesome. I think a new subforum for Help and Feedback would be most useful since most people use the News and Articles forum for forum feedback and requests which is the closest thing to a meta. And there's an Other option, which some used to ask for editing back. Overall I think this is a good sign that TPCi is considering positive changes to the forums for once after almost a year since it went mainstream.
Page 12 asks what you enjoy most about the Community Forums. I wouldn't say they're a go-to place for the latest Pokemon news as is, nor are they particularly insightful for strategy, but they are alright at serving their purpose of being a general community forum and also providing patch notes for specific games, so I expect those to be the main answers.
Page 13 has some more traditional 5-point Likert scale style questions, asking if the forums are relevant, active, visually appealing, easy to use, and intimidating.
Page 14 asks how you typically engage with Pokemon in terms of aspects of the franchise, coming back to demographics.
Page 15 asks how likely you are to recommend the forums to a friend or family member. This is a tough question because on one hand I'm personally fine with the site itself, but in terms of recommending it to other people it wouldn't be first on my list of Pokemon forums, and I probably would not ask a family member to sign up to one anytime soon.
That is where the survey ends, with a picture of a delivery Pikachu. I will provide further updates if any of these changes come to pass in the near future.
A recent change noticeable in the images of my last posts is that all posts now have a 3-dot icon in the top right. Previously this menu had the edit posts option in the past, but it brings up an empty menu now even on your own posts.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10932/did-anyone-else-get-the-forum-feedback-quiz/p1
Apparently there is a survey for feedback being deployed on the forums today. I got it when going to page 2 but accidentally closed the window while trying to take a screenshot, but fortunately clearing my cookies worked to make the survey appear again, though incognito mode didn't. Either way, I can show you the full details of what Pokemon.com is looking for to help develop the forums further. It doesn't seem like this link is unique or account-specific as I got it right after being logged out, and they don't want to identify you anyway, so I will post it here, but I will also detail what the survey asks here as well.
https://pokemonintl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cSeR3ep2VExOD4i?Q_CHL=si
Page 1 shows this is a TPCi operation and is specifically about the Pokemon Community Forums, which I guess is their proper title.
Page 2 asks for your age in from 10-12, 13-15, 16-20, and then in increments of 10 up to 60. Note there is no back button.
Page 3 asks for gender identity with multiple selections allowed.
Page 4 starts off by asking how you found the forums. Now technically I found the forums due to Pokemon Unite using them to post their patch notes in English officially for the first time, which was linked on Twitter in December 2022.
Fun fact: Screenshots from that time show that the default avatar wasn't always a Poke Ball and is probably some vanilla forums default avatar. And these were actually the latest topics at the time in December 2022.
But I think they're referring to the specific ingame link to the forums in Unite, so I decided to just go with "Social Media", though I feel like that refers more to people discovering the forums from when it blew up last year. I guess arguably it's closer to Pokemon.com because it's from an official Pokemon account and they have links on there too. And I've been seeing the forums and its threads come up a lot lately when searching as well, but overall I have to say social media.
Page 5 asks what brought you to the Pokemon Community Forums today. As mentioned I originally came to read patch notes, but now I guess I technically browse topics for the sake of it more than anything else as most lurkers would, though most of the regulars probably fall under connecting with other fans. I imagine the TCG Live audience still mainly uses this to report bugs. As noted earlier, TPCi_GarbageKing has been late on posting about events since the Luvdisc raid event. We also have the first Other/open-ended option here.
Page 6 asks if you accomplished what you came for, and I did though I only saw the one thread about this survey before doing that instead.
Page 7 is a 1-5 scale question with all the options ranked relatively to the word easy. Personally I find it pretty easy to read new topics thanks to there being a page that shows all recent topics across the forum, though if I didn't know then it would be kind of tedious to open all the subforums with no previews.
Page 8 asks if you have an account.
Page 9 asks which topics you are interested in viewing in the forums, though by topic they actually mean the main subforums. You can select multiple options here. I imagine most people are here for either Pokemon General, Unite, or TCG Live.
Page 10 asks about your favorite features of the forums, with multiple selection allowed but being asked to select 3 (you can select more than 3 but I don't know if it lets you progress or they just invalidate your response). Personally I have to say choosing an avatar is a main pro, even with the limited selection it makes people more recognizable thanks to the brand. Adding reactions and earning badges is something that Smogon users can relate to as well, but in terms of helpful features I have to say bookmarking/following threads is pretty useful to get notifications. There is a setting to turn on notifications for all threads you posted in, but this doesn't seem to trigger anymore if your post was manually approved. Following categories on the other hand is pretty pointless as it's basically just following a subforum. And you can't really message other forum members like in PMs unless you mean on their activity page, which is something I have not explored much.
EDIT (2024/05/09): I got a notification for a thread my post waited to get approved in so I guess they fixed it.
Page 11 is where it gets interesting with the survey asking which features you would like to see come. Personally I think official community events would be appreciated, though I don't know if the mods would handle it as well as the users have been making their own events already with brackets and stories, but I could see it being inspired by those and potentially engaging if not completely sanitized by company guidelines. I would like to see more avatar options, but those seem like they will happen eventually anyway and aren't make or break for me. Customizing displayed topics doesn't seem totally necessary to me right now. More ways to earn points and badges is an interesting proposal, with the current system being mostly Vanilla Forums defaults, so the mods would have to come up with something original like the community events or just add in unused reactions like Promote or Awesome. I think a new subforum for Help and Feedback would be most useful since most people use the News and Articles forum for forum feedback and requests which is the closest thing to a meta. And there's an Other option, which some used to ask for editing back. Overall I think this is a good sign that TPCi is considering positive changes to the forums for once after almost a year since it went mainstream.
Page 12 asks what you enjoy most about the Community Forums. I wouldn't say they're a go-to place for the latest Pokemon news as is, nor are they particularly insightful for strategy, but they are alright at serving their purpose of being a general community forum and also providing patch notes for specific games, so I expect those to be the main answers.
Page 13 has some more traditional 5-point Likert scale style questions, asking if the forums are relevant, active, visually appealing, easy to use, and intimidating.
Page 14 asks how you typically engage with Pokemon in terms of aspects of the franchise, coming back to demographics.
Page 15 asks how likely you are to recommend the forums to a friend or family member. This is a tough question because on one hand I'm personally fine with the site itself, but in terms of recommending it to other people it wouldn't be first on my list of Pokemon forums, and I probably would not ask a family member to sign up to one anytime soon.
That is where the survey ends, with a picture of a delivery Pikachu. I will provide further updates if any of these changes come to pass in the near future.
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Short update on recent mod activity on the official Pokemon Community Forums:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11063/imagine-giving-these-rewards-for-milestones
User Zhula infamous for complaining about the TCG and calling things "cringe" made a thread. NoahLaprasForum proceeded to ping multiple moderators to close the thread and the thread was actually locked. It seems like more power is being put in the hands of the people, similar to the FlyPupKai incident in the "exposing cheaters" thread, but even in that case a mod independently made the decision to close it with an official message. You can also see the OP was edited which only mods can do as well.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/8515/exposing-cheaters-and-exploiters/p7
I also want to point out that last month, a mod actually responded to one of these complaint posts in a thankful manner instead. So do the mods want this kind of feedback or not?
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10705/the-avatars-and-emotes-are-beyond-cringe
In response to the recent locking, Zhula made a meta thread which has not been locked yet.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...tag-mods-and-ask-for-a-thread-to-be-closed/p1
Some highlights:
Note: A TechHog post seems to be deleted as another instance of mod action. I saw it at the time, and from my memory and paraphrasing it was basically saying "the mods just don't like you" or something along those lines.
UnovanZorua confirms the fact that mods don't seem to respond to private reports and implicitly refers to the AMA responses posted via imgur.
In other news, one of the mainline game brackets has concluded. The finals pit Pokemon Emerald against Pokemon Y, and Y won with 6 votes to Emerald's 1 as the best mainline game as voted by the Pokemon Community Forums.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11126/mainline-game-bracket-finals
In related news, there is an official bracket archive now for all bracket/voting related threads.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11044/bracket-archive/p1
pokemon_fusion seems to be advertising on the forums as well much like pokemonfusion did in another thread on Smogon with an AI generated response based off responses in the thread. However they are actually linking to a knockoff site and not the actual developers.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9551/pokemon-infinite-fusions-game
Looking at mod actions in general, Mod_Skrilla removed an external link recently about a PMD personality quiz.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11119/pokemon-forums-mystery-dungeon-quiz/p3
Mod_Pandaroo removed a link to Wikipedia:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11018/what-animal-is-arceus
I assume these were imgur or some other image host that was removed:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/2497/weakness-not-applying
There is one instance of a non-destructive act from Mod_Pandaroo, and that is editing someone's post to unbold it.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-on-how-sv-spoilers-could-be-added-to-masters
However, they did not fix it the second time:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9309/what-do-you-think-is-the-coolest-pokemon
In general it seems like Pandaroo is an OG TCG mod from 2022, very strict on not posting any images at all. Times have changed though and the efforts ring hollow when the whole AMA thread is still up untouched.
Overall I have to say moderation quality is still rather flaky especially for a presumably paid position, and the potential for a post complaining about the game to be locked based on a user's opinion that they should stop posting sets a particularly poor precedent, when the majority of other threads avoid being locked otherwise. The fact that a thread complaining about moderator decisions is left up is more consistent to the mods' previous acts of noninvolvement. There is a clear lack of communication and inconsistent standards being set despite every forum having the Rules and Guidelines pinned. Personally I like the novelty that unofficial products and prototype mons can be discussed on an official site, but it clearly is against the defined rules yet with no punishments being enforced.
It does not seem like any updates from the survey have been put into place yet. I will update when I am aware of any changes.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11063/imagine-giving-these-rewards-for-milestones
User Zhula infamous for complaining about the TCG and calling things "cringe" made a thread. NoahLaprasForum proceeded to ping multiple moderators to close the thread and the thread was actually locked. It seems like more power is being put in the hands of the people, similar to the FlyPupKai incident in the "exposing cheaters" thread, but even in that case a mod independently made the decision to close it with an official message. You can also see the OP was edited which only mods can do as well.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/8515/exposing-cheaters-and-exploiters/p7
I also want to point out that last month, a mod actually responded to one of these complaint posts in a thankful manner instead. So do the mods want this kind of feedback or not?
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/10705/the-avatars-and-emotes-are-beyond-cringe
In response to the recent locking, Zhula made a meta thread which has not been locked yet.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...tag-mods-and-ask-for-a-thread-to-be-closed/p1
Some highlights:
Note: A TechHog post seems to be deleted as another instance of mod action. I saw it at the time, and from my memory and paraphrasing it was basically saying "the mods just don't like you" or something along those lines.
UnovanZorua confirms the fact that mods don't seem to respond to private reports and implicitly refers to the AMA responses posted via imgur.
In other news, one of the mainline game brackets has concluded. The finals pit Pokemon Emerald against Pokemon Y, and Y won with 6 votes to Emerald's 1 as the best mainline game as voted by the Pokemon Community Forums.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11126/mainline-game-bracket-finals
In related news, there is an official bracket archive now for all bracket/voting related threads.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11044/bracket-archive/p1
pokemon_fusion seems to be advertising on the forums as well much like pokemonfusion did in another thread on Smogon with an AI generated response based off responses in the thread. However they are actually linking to a knockoff site and not the actual developers.
Their approach on the official forums was much more subdued without explicit advertising, but I believe these are closely related. There hasn't been reason for mods to take this down other than discussing an unofficial fangame though.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9551/pokemon-infinite-fusions-game
Looking at mod actions in general, Mod_Skrilla removed an external link recently about a PMD personality quiz.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11119/pokemon-forums-mystery-dungeon-quiz/p3
Mod_Pandaroo removed a link to Wikipedia:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11018/what-animal-is-arceus
I assume these were imgur or some other image host that was removed:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/2497/weakness-not-applying
There is one instance of a non-destructive act from Mod_Pandaroo, and that is editing someone's post to unbold it.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...-on-how-sv-spoilers-could-be-added-to-masters
However, they did not fix it the second time:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9309/what-do-you-think-is-the-coolest-pokemon
In general it seems like Pandaroo is an OG TCG mod from 2022, very strict on not posting any images at all. Times have changed though and the efforts ring hollow when the whole AMA thread is still up untouched.
Overall I have to say moderation quality is still rather flaky especially for a presumably paid position, and the potential for a post complaining about the game to be locked based on a user's opinion that they should stop posting sets a particularly poor precedent, when the majority of other threads avoid being locked otherwise. The fact that a thread complaining about moderator decisions is left up is more consistent to the mods' previous acts of noninvolvement. There is a clear lack of communication and inconsistent standards being set despite every forum having the Rules and Guidelines pinned. Personally I like the novelty that unofficial products and prototype mons can be discussed on an official site, but it clearly is against the defined rules yet with no punishments being enforced.
It does not seem like any updates from the survey have been put into place yet. I will update when I am aware of any changes.
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Is there even a minimum age on the pokemon forum?
Technically the forums are tied to Pokemon.com Trainer Club accounts, which I assume you can sign up for at any age with your parent's permission since the VGC Juniors division exists. The bottom of every Pokemon.com page shows that TPCI has been COPPA certified since 2018, so you might have to be 13 for the forums specifically, but I cannot confirm if this is the case, and it might also fall under parent consent if you already have a Pokemon.com account anyway. The survey from earlier does have a 10-12 option so it's probably expected on some level.
BREAKING NEWS: The 3 dots icon on posts has been updated to include a circle and making the dots smaller. There is no added functionality to the menu.
In other news, there is a new notice about TCG Live bugs and people are very mad. The original TCG Live bug community is truly back with a vengeance.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...back-many-bug-live-cannot-battle-stuck#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11240/before-reporting-bugs#latest
(Note: Blown_Up_Burmy has 6 abuse reacts. It takes 5 spams to remove a post/send to the spam queue, 5 abuses to send to moderator review, and 10 abuses to remove the post.)
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11225/game-bugging-at-coin-flip#latest
It seems like Burmy's posts in another thread got deleted with some replies still remaining.
And a thread from yesterday has already reached page 5:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11223/matches-not-starting#latest
NOTE: As it turns out, Blown_Up_Burmy's account was actually banned and completely purged, happening in the middle of me writing this post between opening up the first thread and the second one where his toxic posts appeared to be deleted. All his posts have been deleted now, and I only managed to screenshot the only evidence of their existence in the seconds before he was taken down. This is a shocking intervention by the moderators, and I have to give them props for this power move reminiscent of last year. This goes to show what the new standard of what it takes to get the mods to act in the Pokemon Community Forums of today.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/profile/comments/Blown_Up_Burmy
Update: Google has still cached a thread title that he made and that was also deleted in the purging, titled "TPCi Sucks. Please DO YOUR JOB!!! (Coin Flip Bug Unresolved)", along with one chiding reply. It seems that Burmy had accused someone of bribing TPCi at this point.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...s-please-do-your-job-coin-flip-bug-unresolved
Also, in case an official forum moderator is looking for feedback, I have a complaint about the notification system. In the menu it groups together multiple comments in the same topic unlike Smogon. This is because in the list of all notifications you get a notification for every individual post while Smogon doesn't remind you after the first unread.
However, the issue is that it brings you to the first of the comments in the group instead of the most recent, so even though there was a new comment made half an hour ago, it still groups it in with old notifications and so I get jumped to a page before the newest post, because the notification link + avatar is based on UnovanZorua's April 28 post rather than clasingla's 6:55 PM post.
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Update: clasingla's profile has a new field saying "I like Pokemon". I don't know how this exists as I don't have it so it might be a rank 4 privilege. They posted a status update saying the same thing which I tried as well. Status updates seem to always require approval. There is a delete button on them that I haven't tried clicking. An interesting note is that these status posts can be reacted to unlike Smogon. They may not count to reaction score like PMs though since they don't seem to appear in the individual reaction count or comments list.
Before updating on TCG stuff, I will take the advice of the 100 LOLs badge and look at some more lighthearted content.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9748/joke/p4
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...on-unite-my-kids-play-the-game-and-we-hear-pe
Actually this is sad.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11056/which-country-do-y-all-live-in/p1
It would turn out this thread was not as benevolent as expected.
It turns out that Pokemaster9293 managed to make a profit based on a bet on the intelligence of Pokemon forums users. This is probably the most successful thing anyone has ever leveraged it for.
The TCG live drama has been heating up in the last few days, starting off with Mod_Skrilla making an acknowledgment in the big thread:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11223/matches-not-starting/p6
(Pokemon GO is actually the buggiest app game of the year.)
There is a divide between the complainers and the dev defenders, which is just JazzyUnicornGir:
Some people work on creating their own solutions:
Others have not had success:
clasingla joins the pro-dev side:
DoubleCure returned to the forums to post that the devs fixed it apparently. No one else posted about the bug after this so I assume they all went back to TCG Live.
There is still some fallout in other threads though.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11283/can-you-just-fix-it-now#latest
I think someone with anger issues of their own should note that telling people to calm down may not be very effective when they just want to use the forum to vent.
My favourite is this thread that became a debate about how software development works with everyone putting their credentials on the table.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11268/why-is-tcglive-so-bad
The TCG live players even turn on each other:
This is how I learned that there's an option to show your email publicly on the Pokemon Forums, which I will not be showing.
Ravenclawed1234 is on team clasingla/taking programming courses in school.
Even blatant virus links are being allowed on the forums in the wake of the TCG issues, connected to the private server spammers. I suspect this will be deleted soon and I will not link it directly, but the file is a suspiciously named exe.
For science I actually downloaded this (do not open). We can see that this was an AHK/autohotkey file with its icon. Hill-98 is confirmed to be one of the private server hosters and is connected to its GitHub repository. I still have no idea who actually cares about these or uses them other than the spammers on the official forums but it goes even deeper than that.
According to an anonymous issue, Hill-98 is making money off this, but when reported immediately a bunch of other accounts jumped in to accuse them of impersonation and being jealous while not denying it. It seems to me that there is a lot of inter community Chinese drama spilling over to this one dev. Now I wonder if the private server advertisers were false flags trying to get TPCi's eyes on it and take it down.
https://github.com/Hastwell/Omukade.Cheyenne/issues/7
https://github.com/Hastwell/Omukade.Cheyenne/issues/9
Truly the extended TCG Live community is a pageant of crimes, love, and hate. We can also blame it for being the reason these forums were created, so really I feel like TPC would be better off without it ever existing, but here we are.
EDIT: Also there was another Zhula thread. He got 8 abuse reacts so far.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11265/if-you-lose-as-arc-tina
Before updating on TCG stuff, I will take the advice of the 100 LOLs badge and look at some more lighthearted content.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/9748/joke/p4
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...on-unite-my-kids-play-the-game-and-we-hear-pe
Actually this is sad.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11056/which-country-do-y-all-live-in/p1
It would turn out this thread was not as benevolent as expected.
It turns out that Pokemaster9293 managed to make a profit based on a bet on the intelligence of Pokemon forums users. This is probably the most successful thing anyone has ever leveraged it for.
The TCG live drama has been heating up in the last few days, starting off with Mod_Skrilla making an acknowledgment in the big thread:
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11223/matches-not-starting/p6
(Pokemon GO is actually the buggiest app game of the year.)
There is a divide between the complainers and the dev defenders, which is just JazzyUnicornGir:
Some people work on creating their own solutions:
Others have not had success:
clasingla joins the pro-dev side:
DoubleCure returned to the forums to post that the devs fixed it apparently. No one else posted about the bug after this so I assume they all went back to TCG Live.
There is still some fallout in other threads though.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11283/can-you-just-fix-it-now#latest
I think someone with anger issues of their own should note that telling people to calm down may not be very effective when they just want to use the forum to vent.
My favourite is this thread that became a debate about how software development works with everyone putting their credentials on the table.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11268/why-is-tcglive-so-bad
The TCG live players even turn on each other:
This is how I learned that there's an option to show your email publicly on the Pokemon Forums, which I will not be showing.
Ravenclawed1234 is on team clasingla/taking programming courses in school.
Even blatant virus links are being allowed on the forums in the wake of the TCG issues, connected to the private server spammers. I suspect this will be deleted soon and I will not link it directly, but the file is a suspiciously named exe.
For science I actually downloaded this (do not open). We can see that this was an AHK/autohotkey file with its icon. Hill-98 is confirmed to be one of the private server hosters and is connected to its GitHub repository. I still have no idea who actually cares about these or uses them other than the spammers on the official forums but it goes even deeper than that.
According to an anonymous issue, Hill-98 is making money off this, but when reported immediately a bunch of other accounts jumped in to accuse them of impersonation and being jealous while not denying it. It seems to me that there is a lot of inter community Chinese drama spilling over to this one dev. Now I wonder if the private server advertisers were false flags trying to get TPCi's eyes on it and take it down.
https://github.com/Hastwell/Omukade.Cheyenne/issues/7
https://github.com/Hastwell/Omukade.Cheyenne/issues/9
Truly the extended TCG Live community is a pageant of crimes, love, and hate. We can also blame it for being the reason these forums were created, so really I feel like TPC would be better off without it ever existing, but here we are.
EDIT: Also there was another Zhula thread. He got 8 abuse reacts so far.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/11265/if-you-lose-as-arc-tina
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this has become the pokemon forum thread