OK, I have been a part of these forums for about a year and a half, a little more. Over the past year, I have noticed a SHARP increase in many n00bish behaviors. I would like to create this thread for a few reasons:
A) To point out what these behaviors are
B) To hopefully stop them
If I have forgotten any common ones, do please post, I am sure I will forget at least 1. If this belongs in a different forums, Mods please move it. Now... onto my main point. These common n00bish behaviors:
You know a member is a n00b when...
They run around the deck garage just to say 'ADD 2-2 CLAYDOL'.
This is stupid. Yes, I am aware if my deck does not have claydol in it. This is pretty sad when people go into the deck garage and tell people to add Claydol into something like a Legos deck, or Regigigas, or Charizard/Ninetails. As amazing as this sounds, there ARE decks that DO NOT NEED CLAYDOLS IN THEM. I even had one person tell me to add a 2-2 Claydol line when I already had them in there. -__- Please stop this behavior.
When they degrade somebody else's deck idea without a reason why
I have seen this numerous times in the deck garage. People run around saying 'That deck is bad,' or 'that deck looses to Gengar' or similar comments. This will be all that is included on the post. Please people, pretty pretty please give EVIDENCE as to why a deck is bad. Nobody likes to have their decks called bad. People do like CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, where you tell them WHY a deck is bad, and what they could do better.
When they say a commonly used deck is easy to beat, or has no future.
This is happening right now. As amazing as this sounds, Gengar is playable. The Lv. X is out, making Spread variants pretty good, Cursegar w/ Mr. Mime/Spiritomb is great, and Shadow Room/Fainting Spell are.... Shadow Room/Fainting Spell. THis deck has a future, don't just say 'Gengar is bad, only scrubs would like this card.' Not every variant of one deck is bad. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean nobody else likes it, or that it's bad.
When people brag about how they did at tournaments, and think that this makes them better than everybody else.
You people know who you are. Just because you went to worlds in juniors or won a cities, or won States, or made T32 in nats DOES NOT make you the best player in the world. If you were the best player in the worlds, you would have WON WORLDS. So stop acting like it.
When you post in the 'Rate My Team' forum without knowing what you're doing, or even what a good EV Spread/Nature/Move set is.
Oh man. These are priceless. I even have a quote for this one.
A) To point out what these behaviors are
B) To hopefully stop them
If I have forgotten any common ones, do please post, I am sure I will forget at least 1. If this belongs in a different forums, Mods please move it. Now... onto my main point. These common n00bish behaviors:
You know a member is a n00b when...
They run around the deck garage just to say 'ADD 2-2 CLAYDOL'.
This is stupid. Yes, I am aware if my deck does not have claydol in it. This is pretty sad when people go into the deck garage and tell people to add Claydol into something like a Legos deck, or Regigigas, or Charizard/Ninetails. As amazing as this sounds, there ARE decks that DO NOT NEED CLAYDOLS IN THEM. I even had one person tell me to add a 2-2 Claydol line when I already had them in there. -__- Please stop this behavior.
When they degrade somebody else's deck idea without a reason why
I have seen this numerous times in the deck garage. People run around saying 'That deck is bad,' or 'that deck looses to Gengar' or similar comments. This will be all that is included on the post. Please people, pretty pretty please give EVIDENCE as to why a deck is bad. Nobody likes to have their decks called bad. People do like CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, where you tell them WHY a deck is bad, and what they could do better.
When they say a commonly used deck is easy to beat, or has no future.
This is happening right now. As amazing as this sounds, Gengar is playable. The Lv. X is out, making Spread variants pretty good, Cursegar w/ Mr. Mime/Spiritomb is great, and Shadow Room/Fainting Spell are.... Shadow Room/Fainting Spell. THis deck has a future, don't just say 'Gengar is bad, only scrubs would like this card.' Not every variant of one deck is bad. Just because you don't like it doesn't mean nobody else likes it, or that it's bad.
When people brag about how they did at tournaments, and think that this makes them better than everybody else.
You people know who you are. Just because you went to worlds in juniors or won a cities, or won States, or made T32 in nats DOES NOT make you the best player in the world. If you were the best player in the worlds, you would have WON WORLDS. So stop acting like it.
When you post in the 'Rate My Team' forum without knowing what you're doing, or even what a good EV Spread/Nature/Move set is.
Oh man. These are priceless. I even have a quote for this one.
^^^This was about my Celebi that was choice scarfed. Thank goodness The_Assassin was there to point this out, and dragonexpert helped with better advice. Oh, and then a few posts later, right after I just said Celebi was scarfeda member said:
Please, just read a little bit higher up in the thread. That's all I ask.another member said:
