I'd like to request for a Firebot Development Lab forum to be added to the site. For anyone who doesn't know what firebot is, it is an off-topic forum where all site rules barring those surrounding pornography, advertisment and alts do not apply. It is lighthearted and generally used to take the piss out of stuff, to shitpost or to use shitty inside jokes that only regulars in the forum would get. Generally speaking people get salty over something posted in such a forum they are probably twelve anyway and need to grow a sack before posting there again, as 9/10 it'll be someone taking the piss out of something. There is one on smogon and it is good fun to post in, and I have proposed making a post about it here over skype and recieved a unanimous positive response from the people who I have asked. In case you're wondering about the purpose of such a forum, it would be entirely for recreational purposes.
Of course there would need to be measures taken so that people don't just use it to get around the double posting rule to get free PC. The way this would be resolved would be to simply disable the ability to gain PC through posting in said forum. It wouldn't need particularly heavy moderation for obvious reasons, although having moderators for the forum would be ideal to keep it at a quality that doesn't descend too low. I suggest restricting access so that only people who have signed up already can view it though, as we wouldn't want people visiting the site for the first time getting the wrong idea about what the purpose of PP is.
Of course there would need to be measures taken so that people don't just use it to get around the double posting rule to get free PC. The way this would be resolved would be to simply disable the ability to gain PC through posting in said forum. It wouldn't need particularly heavy moderation for obvious reasons, although having moderators for the forum would be ideal to keep it at a quality that doesn't descend too low. I suggest restricting access so that only people who have signed up already can view it though, as we wouldn't want people visiting the site for the first time getting the wrong idea about what the purpose of PP is.
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