Sssssh! Keep it private! The secret side of Pokemon Showdown

[Temporaryanonymous]

[picture of two pokemon, one making a shushing motion to another one]

What are private rooms?
[description of private rooms, why they exist, what kinds of private rooms there are, etc]

The wild wild west
[rules dealing with private rooms as well as types of communities]

Private rooms and you
[Don't leak, joining one, making one, etc]

This is a slightly more controversial article to be writing about, but I think I have the experience to handle it well. Private rooms on Showdown are generally not a big secret, and I think the way they should be dealt with should be in a mature manner so we don't have new players just yelling "/join secretroom!" in lobby after they accidentally stumble upon one.

 

[Goddess Briyella]

This is going to be tricky to pull off, since you'd literally be publicizing something that's meant to be private by writing this, and it would be weird if you talked about rooms without providing informative and detailed content on why some of them are different. I already told NotCanadian this wasn't a good idea for an article. We already lock people for leaking private rooms in public, and to be fair, they can be shared in PM without us knowing anyway. I'll leave this up to Player staff but I personally think this is not going to work.

 

[Style_Dota]

As long as you don't specifically say the names of private rooms, I don't think this would be an issue :|

 

[Temporaryanonymous]

Scene approved this. Do I wait until he moves this to the kiln or do I just make a new thread in the kiln?

 

[scene]

you can make a thread Temporaryanonymous