Martin
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
People join this site for all kinds of reasons, even if their reasons for staying change over time. You get people who continue using the various competitive sections of the site, there are people who confine themselves to OI, you get people who quit competitive and remain exclusively in Cong/firebot/GL/sports arena, and you get people who join to play ASB or discover circus after joining for a different reason who proceed to focus their presence on that section.
Regardless of what you do now, what was the reason you originally signed up to Smogon?
For me, the reason that I joined back in 2013 was because I wanted to write analyses. I was a new player, and the thought of having something I wrote be featured in what was, in my mind at the time, the definitive guide for how to use a Pokemon competitively was just so cool to me. I'd read analyses top to bottom, word for word, and was just completely enthralled in them and the patterns within their writing (anyone else remember when almost every analysis had "the crux of the set" in it?), and I joined smogon so that I could write. I was unaware of the competitive discussion section and the social forums and OI, and I just focussed myself entirely on that section and, after having a BW NU Luxray set uploaded, I decided that I was going to write full analyses come XY (much to the various QC teams' dismay hahaha), and I just spread out from there really.
Regardless of what you do now, what was the reason you originally signed up to Smogon?
For me, the reason that I joined back in 2013 was because I wanted to write analyses. I was a new player, and the thought of having something I wrote be featured in what was, in my mind at the time, the definitive guide for how to use a Pokemon competitively was just so cool to me. I'd read analyses top to bottom, word for word, and was just completely enthralled in them and the patterns within their writing (anyone else remember when almost every analysis had "the crux of the set" in it?), and I joined smogon so that I could write. I was unaware of the competitive discussion section and the social forums and OI, and I just focussed myself entirely on that section and, after having a BW NU Luxray set uploaded, I decided that I was going to write full analyses come XY (much to the various QC teams' dismay hahaha), and I just spread out from there really.