Absoltrainer
Active Member
Seriously, what happend to it? I see articles pop up on every deck, but they never get put in the archtype section.
The gym really needs to revive the Archtype section.
Reasons:
1.) Cut down on Deck Forum garbage.
When I say garbage, I don's mean bad decks, I mean seeing 40+ threads on the same deck with a 2 card difference. I rarely open the deck forum unless I am feeling helpful, but I don't liek seeing 14 threads on the same topic with the same advice in them, then the next day thr SAME advice is given to the same people on the SAME deck. With the Archtype section and threads revived, we could go back to the old system that was used during the ex series were the mods made it a point that you can post your list in the thread designed specifically for your deck. You can post as many lists as you want for that deck, and not have to worry about clogging up the forum. I.E. a G/G thread last year would have been amazing, but none ever appeared. And no I don't mean and article. I mean a thread that may have BEEN an article but has been designated as a thread only for that deck.
2.) Better advice.
If you look back at the old archtypes threads like Metanite and Mewtrick, and Ban ex, and the other threads, you can see that the people that normally populate the thread are the MOST experianced with the deck, and thus have done more testing and have played more with the deck then mose people on the subject. Thus those people could offer better advice to the people posting their lists, and people can use the entire thread as a referance for their decks. This also allows for fact checking. Someone may post an idea, and someone else in the thread who uses said deck a lot might have already tried and thus have a thougth on the idea.
3.) Less Spam in the deck forum
When I say less spam, I actually mean that is will be more contained. People may still argue over the deck or the idea, but it will be confined to one thread versus 12 threads all containing the same argument and advice over and over with the same people.
4.) Match-Ups
The Archtype threads where the ONLY places I ever saw realistic match-ups. Most likely because the match-ups in the archtype threads were based on real life testing and thsu were extremely accurate. If there is one thing that bugs me, its the fact that everyone thinks that their lists are invicnible to every deck or has at least a 50-50 chance agaqisnt everything. With the archtype threads, the match-ups were very discussed and thus the people who participated in the threads were very educated on their match-ups and more educated when they made their own lists.
When I first joined the gym, I remember using the archtype forum almost all the time. Not only to compare my match -ups with other deck, but to get good advice on my deck from people who are always playing the deck. I could post many lists on the same thread and thus get a lot more help with a kind of one-on-one basis with the people who really are experianced with the deck. I think that if we revive the archtype forum, the deck forum will improve with less repeat thread, more content per thread, more informed players, and over-all a better enviroment where player can go to a specific thread for their deck for help and as a resource.
Discuss.
The gym really needs to revive the Archtype section.
Reasons:
1.) Cut down on Deck Forum garbage.
When I say garbage, I don's mean bad decks, I mean seeing 40+ threads on the same deck with a 2 card difference. I rarely open the deck forum unless I am feeling helpful, but I don't liek seeing 14 threads on the same topic with the same advice in them, then the next day thr SAME advice is given to the same people on the SAME deck. With the Archtype section and threads revived, we could go back to the old system that was used during the ex series were the mods made it a point that you can post your list in the thread designed specifically for your deck. You can post as many lists as you want for that deck, and not have to worry about clogging up the forum. I.E. a G/G thread last year would have been amazing, but none ever appeared. And no I don't mean and article. I mean a thread that may have BEEN an article but has been designated as a thread only for that deck.
2.) Better advice.
If you look back at the old archtypes threads like Metanite and Mewtrick, and Ban ex, and the other threads, you can see that the people that normally populate the thread are the MOST experianced with the deck, and thus have done more testing and have played more with the deck then mose people on the subject. Thus those people could offer better advice to the people posting their lists, and people can use the entire thread as a referance for their decks. This also allows for fact checking. Someone may post an idea, and someone else in the thread who uses said deck a lot might have already tried and thus have a thougth on the idea.
3.) Less Spam in the deck forum
When I say less spam, I actually mean that is will be more contained. People may still argue over the deck or the idea, but it will be confined to one thread versus 12 threads all containing the same argument and advice over and over with the same people.
4.) Match-Ups
The Archtype threads where the ONLY places I ever saw realistic match-ups. Most likely because the match-ups in the archtype threads were based on real life testing and thsu were extremely accurate. If there is one thing that bugs me, its the fact that everyone thinks that their lists are invicnible to every deck or has at least a 50-50 chance agaqisnt everything. With the archtype threads, the match-ups were very discussed and thus the people who participated in the threads were very educated on their match-ups and more educated when they made their own lists.
When I first joined the gym, I remember using the archtype forum almost all the time. Not only to compare my match -ups with other deck, but to get good advice on my deck from people who are always playing the deck. I could post many lists on the same thread and thus get a lot more help with a kind of one-on-one basis with the people who really are experianced with the deck. I think that if we revive the archtype forum, the deck forum will improve with less repeat thread, more content per thread, more informed players, and over-all a better enviroment where player can go to a specific thread for their deck for help and as a resource.
Discuss.
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Oh, and I wouldn't say everyone's entitled to their own thread. They're perfectly able to contribute to the previous thread on the deck with their own two cents.
