OK, so this is going to sound like a rehash of what I said when you said this exact same thing in the last suspect test, but I feel the need to express new ideas about why exactly suspect tests are a good thing and why a few people saying some pretty ridiculous stuff just because they're new to the site doesn't mean that Smogon should give up its foundations. Back in the Serperior retest you stated the same harsh opinions based on a debatabely irrational fear which is completely understandable; you said that you were worried that the opinions of a few people, because of their radical ideas which were on the opposite side of popular opinion and many of said opinions, to put it plainly, didn't have rational basis. I understand where your fear is coming from here, but it's important to keep the basis of Smogon in mind, and the fact of the matter is that all Smogon tiers are meant to be tiered by the people that play in it. Up to when koko gave up his leadership, UU (as I'm sure you're aware) was the only tier that did not do public suspect tests. To the vast majority of players (i'm talking across all skillsets here) this was enraging, since it meant they had little to no impact in the direction the tier was headed. Smogon tiering is based upon the idea that the players have the ability to determine which way their tiers head- even if it's just one vote out of 200 or 300 total votes, when a person knows that they have contributed democratically to the tier, they have a sense of self-fulfillment. This isn't just because Smogon wants to give their users a sense of self-fulfillment, because that would be rather ridiculous; the way I see it, the players create the popularity and the metagame itself, so why should a select group of people, not even selected by the main group of people themselves, be allowed to make every possible decision in the tier? Yes, most tiers have a council, and those councils are there for more important decisions which would be better placed in the hands of this council than a large group of players (such as quickbans) but realistically, the players control the tier they play, and that is how it has been for years on this site.
The idea that we should give it all up and just let the council control the tiering because of the behavior of a very select group of (mostly newer) players is idiotic. You can't blame people like the person you quoted above, who only has 15 posts on the site, as an example of how public suspect tests are "wrong" and that we should return to a council system. While I am trying not to bash on newer, less experienced players who have opinions like this and like the one that drove you off the edge in the Serperior retest, I'm just saying that sometimes the opinion of those less experienced can be enraging to those players who are much more experienced and who take the direction of the tier they play seriously. These players are generally in the minority of those voting- much because of the COIL and GXE systems limiting those who can vote, and generally more experienced players have a much easier time obtaining reqs than less experienced players. let me put it this way: if you waited until the suspect test was over, went through the entire post, and picked out posts that were as blatant like the post up above (and you know which posts I'm talking about), stating that they would unban the pokemon because of a personal opinion about it unrelated to its brokenness and effect to the tier itself- how many would you see? In all likelyhood, at least 85% of the minority votes (that is, no-ban in the Serperior test or ban in the Metagrossite test) were voted that way because of an opinion that had logical merit and the player was voting that way for what was more important to the future of the tier. Most likely, more that 85% of said votes would be "logical", but the 85% is the absolute minimum that I could see in UU.
so, a tl;dr for those of you who don't want to read this wall of text: don't take the opinions of a few people to resemble the ideas of an entire community of people, and don't make fears about opinions of players in the minority craft your opinions about smogon or uu's tiering policy. it's irrational and it's wrong.
