Other Smogon Election - Primary Week

Introduction

Welcome to the Smogon election! In this game, you will be assigned to 1 of 2 teams (Green Team and Purple Team). Each team has to come up with a team platform (Smogon related), a slogan, mascot, and a leader that will represent the team and try to get their leader elected to the position of President of Smogon. After signups, there are two stages: Primary, and General Election.

Smogon Election Discord

https://discord.gg/BQXWpcY

Anyone is welcome to join, even people not in a party. People who are not a part of a team will play an important role in the General Election, as they are the majority of swing voters.

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Primary Stage

Welcome to the primary stage of the Smogon Election. In this week long stage, the parties have to figure out what their party platform, slogan, and who their candidate will be in the General Election. Teams can use PM conversations, the Smogon Election discord, or this thread to discuss and figure out their strategy. This stage will probably be more private than the General Election stage as teams will mostly be talking among themselves, but feel free to use this thread too.

At the end of the week (October 1 00:00 EST standard time), people will vote over a 48 hour period for their preferred candidate in their respective team.

Without further ado, the two teams:

Green Team:

Whydon
teachable
byronthewellwell
DeathByWobbuffet
SteelEdges
VigilanteVigoroth
Pilo
XnadrojX
Colonel M
Granny Pie
Steven Snype
shubaka17
ItsYaBoi1337
Texas Cloverleaf
Theorymon
spookysocialist

Purple Team:

Aubisio
Stan Soojung
Hitmonleet
TJ
Leo
Earlio
Raven
avocado
Former Hope
legend slayer
Myzozoa
Nuked
Ditto
Martin
Slurmz
GMars
 
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Smogon Gazelle - Issue #1

C&C Employment Numbers Down

For some reason, there are a lot less eager employed badgedrones in C&C. This is a major issue leading to outdated and unfinished analyses in the Smogon Dex.

Smogon Crash Due To Influx of Immigrants

An influx of immigrants from Serebii, Pokecommunity, and other sites have been coming to Smogon. This caused Smogon to crash recently, and the dex and replay server went down. Some people are upset at these immigrants for being noobs, but others point to immigrants such as Psynergy for effectively integrating into the community.

Smogon Redesign

"WE WANT A REDESIGNED SMOGON!", "IT'S BEEN 3 DECADES SINCE SMOGON PROMISED A REDESIGN", angry protesters chant. It seems like the Smogon Redesign will never get done.

PU and OM Representation

Some members of the PU and OM community feel as if they are second class citizens because they are not represented in official tournaments. "This is ridiculous - we work so hard yet we get a slap in the face? How the hell are we supposed to cultivate a strong playerbase without official tournaments?", an upset Anty questions.

Suspect Testing

Suspect testing has been a controversial topic on Smogon for a while, especially with the recent Arena Trap ban. The Anti-establishment leader of the Anarchist party, Verlisiflea Cruise, has declared that "The Arena Trap is a clear constitutional crisis manufactured by the Smogon elite. The Smogon elite handpicked the suspect voters through tough voting requirements so they could oppress innocent, defenseless Pokemon like Trapinch and Diglett. Voting rights are human rights.", says Verlisiflea. However, other people say that voting restrictions are fair because anyone who is good enough can get them, and some people argue that voting restrictions are way too lenient. One user, FrozenZekrom, says "even a person using a Metang can get voting requirements with how brainless ladder is".



Hitmonleet the candidates can pick a vice candidate once they are running.
 
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Also, this should go without saying, but please respect other people on Smogon, especially people not participating in this game. If you're gonna insult them, you should get permission from them.

Edit: You guys have free reign to insult me.
 

Ditto

/me huggles
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"Please excuse our look during redesign!"

These words have been plastered right below "smogon :)" for so long that it has now become it's own joke. But I say these words again, not in jest, but in earnest. Please excuse our look during redesign. For that's what we're doing right here. Right now. We're looking for a way to redesign this forum that each of us have spent so much time on and given so much to. Now many of us here are on different sides in this moment. Many of us have differing platforms and ideas of what we think this site can be. I want the public to not fault any of the fine people on Purple Team or Green Team, for I see many people in both parties that I would gladly fight beside in a team tournament. And I ask the public to forgive us if at any point during this election cycle any of us fall into heated debate, argument, or worse, and to please understand that this only comes from our own common goal to make this site the best it can be. For is that not our common goal? We just have different team comps and strategies to get us there, but we all want the best for Smogon. But Circus Maximus is a subforum known for it's hidden conversations and spying tactics. I hope we can rise above this stereotype together and work with each other and the public to create a welcoming and trusting system in which we are not just divided into teams, but work together as a community to rise above our petty colors. For this forum should be like a Silvally or Arceus and be welcoming to all types. I thank you all for your time, and I would like to personally extend a welcoming hand to Green Team.
 
The candidates running for the nomination in the primaries should announce soon. You don't have to have your platform yet, but the sooner the better. You definitely want a platform before the general election stage starts so the audience can start thinking about which candidate/platform they like most.

Remember, the primary is just for members of the respective team, but everyone with 25 posts or more on Smogon will be able to vote on the general election.

As for the whole gazelle thing, I've decided to just occasionally drop an issue that the candidate/teams will have to respond to.



PS Staff Strike

Over 30 members of the PS Global Staff, all drivers and mods, have started a strike. They cite as their reasons for striking 1) Do-nothing leaders that pocket thousands doing nothing, specifically the lizard tamer named Christina. 2) Ugly break room that only has 1 medium sized couch, a 20 inch TV screen, and a shitty vending machine that is seemingly engineered to never properly give you the snack until the second time you put money in. 3) Annoying trolls that make the job frustrating. This is a huge problem as trolls have been wrecking havoc on PS for the past few days.
 

Myzozoa

to find better ways to say what nobody says
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The Purple Team has issued the following resolutions in response to these above described events:

Preamble:

We, the members of the Purple Team have written a statement in response to recent events described by user DTC in this post:
Smogon Election - Primary Week. Although our platform has yet to be officially unveiled, we will use this statement to indicate to the good citizens of Smogon.com how we are oriented to serving their interests through improvement and reform. Please excuse our look during redesign!

Smogon Gazelle - Issue #1

1. C&C Employment Numbers Down

For some reason, there are a lot less eager employed badgedrones in C&C. This is a major issue leading to outdated and unfinished analyses in the Smogon Dex.
1. WHERE AS, C&C is a critical part of smogon.com because analyses are a huge source of site traffic and a valuable resource for players of all skill levels, rewards for participation in this part of the forums and content generation remain limited;

IT IS RESOLVED, The Purple Team will increase opportunities to participate in C&C by adding more metagames (OM for example) to the on site dex;

IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED,
The Purple Team will incentivize users to participate in C&C by linking it to access to participation in an official tournament, this will also incentivize more skilled players to write analyses because tournament battlers will want an opportunity to get another trophy.

2. Smogon Crash Due To Influx of Immigrants

An influx of immigrants from Serebii, Pokecommunity, and other sites have been coming to Smogon. This caused Smogon to crash recently, and the dex and replay server went down. Some people are upset at these immigrants for being noobs, but others point to immigrants such as Psynergy for effectively integrating into the community.
2. WHERE AS, all non-malicious traffic coming to smogon.com should be welcomed, every click is a potential source of valuable revenue; Since these users from serebii and other sites aren't acting in a purposeful or coordinated way to crash smogon's server;

IT IS RESOLVED, The Purple Team will expand the capacity of smogon's servers to accommodate periods of increased traffic coming to the site.

3. Smogon Redesign

"WE WANT A REDESIGNED SMOGON!", "IT'S BEEN 3 DECADES SINCE SMOGON PROMISED A REDESIGN", angry protesters chant. It seems like the Smogon Redesign will never get done.
3. WHERE AS, The message in the banner is somewhat of an inside joke and protestors are capable of misinformed assertions; Upon reflection, The Purple Team claims this redesign can never be 'completed';

IT IS RESOLVED,
It is up to this community to constantly change to adapt to the needs of the userbase and without constant attempts to improve smogon.com, the site could become stagnant; Thus, "Please excuse our look during redesign" is actually the Purple Team's motto.

4. PU and OM Representation

Some members of the PU and OM community feel as if they are second class citizens because they are not represented in official tournaments. "This is ridiculous - we work so hard yet we get a slap in the face? How the hell are we supposed to cultivate a strong playerbase without official tournaments?", an upset Anty questions.
4. WHERE AS, PU and OM have long been under-represented and under-valued tiers;

IT IS RESOLVED, The Purple Team will promote these metagames by bringing OM and PU analyses back to the on-site strategy dex;

IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED The Purple Team will promote dialogues to integrate OMs into official tournaments on a case by case basis.

5. Suspect Testing

Suspect testing has been a controversial topic on Smogon for a while, especially with the recent Arena Trap ban. The Anti-establishment leader of the Anarchist party, Verlisiflea Cruise, has declared that "The Arena Trap is a clear constitutional crisis manufactured by the Smogon elite. The Smogon elite handpicked the suspect voters through tough voting requirements so they could oppress innocent, defenseless Pokemon like Trapinch and Diglett. Voting rights are human rights.", says Verlisiflea. However, other people say that voting restrictions are fair because anyone who is good enough can get them, and some people argue that voting restrictions are way too lenient. One user, FrozenZekrom, says "even a person using a Metang can get voting requirements with how brainless ladder is".
5. WHERE AS, Creating ban-lists and deciding what is allowable and what counts as competitive pokemon remains the essential, and most controversial, purpose of smogon.com;

IT IS RESOLVED, The Purple Team will to make the suspect process more transparent at each level; Currently, there is a significant lack of transparency around decisions about what is suspect tested; In the past this has led to significant post-hoc revision of tiers, hasty compromises that leave questions about certain pokemon unanswered and detract from the tiers' legitimacy, and inconveniences users by forcing them to re-learn a tier years after the generation has ceased to be active; The issue is not that people are barred from participating in the suspect voting, but rather a lack of transparency that characterizes the entire process, and leaves users with questions about why suspects were chosen at all.

6. PS Staff Strike
Over 30 members of the PS Global Staff, all drivers and mods, have started a strike. They cite as their reasons for striking 1) Do-nothing leaders that pocket thousands doing nothing, specifically the lizard tamer named Christina. 2) Ugly break room that only has 1 medium sized couch, a 20 inch TV screen, and a shitty vending machine that is seemingly engineered to never properly give you the snack until the second time you put money in. 3) Annoying trolls that make the job frustrating. This is a huge problem as trolls have been wrecking havoc on PS for the past few days.
6. WHERE AS, Staffing PS! remains one of the most dangerous jobs in America, rates of environmentally-caused prodromal catatonia and toxicity are extremely high;

IT IS RESOLVED,
The Purple Team will increase the amount of mods and drivers on PS! in order to deal with the high volume of trolls arriving at the PS! Lobby;

IT IS FURTHER RESOLVED, the Purple Team will reward mods and staff with free and discounted smogon.com 'official staff' apparel to thank them for all the hard, thankless work they do.


STATE OF THE SMOGON.COM FORUMS
COUNTY OF SOCIALIZATION

I, MYZOZOA, PUBLIC NOTARY of the PURPLE SMOGON ELECTION TEAM, do hereby certify that this is a true and correct transcript of the resolution that was adopted at a meeting held on the 28th day of September, 2017; the original of which is on file in this office. I further certify that 4 members voted in favor of this resolution and that 4 members were present and voting.

xx MYZOZOA xx
 
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