Before you think this is insane and downvote it, I'm going to try and address some of its major flaws. I feel like they cannot be fixed.
The users
The RMT is in a spot where someone posts an absolutely awful team and people don't give good enough advice (or advice that pales in comparison to smogon's), or when a really good player posts a great team which cannot be rated here because they're objectively better than everyone else at a specific format. The amount of actually knowledgeable team raters is ridiculously small, even smaller than the amount of good teams submitted there.
Replays thread
A large majority of replays there are straight-up boring, with nothing special about them. Outside of that, the replays are just the occasional good AG player replay and everything else is a sweep that happens on low ladder, someone being caught using terrible gimmicks, noob salt, or a Rock Slide miss being viewed as epic hax.
Possible ways to fix this
- Cracking down on users who make bad posts on the RMT; the RMT is not moderated as well as Pokebase. There needs to be punishment for people who post low quality stuff.
- Instead of clogging the RMT up with the **** we see today, which pushes actually good teams out of the spotlight in favor of trash, mods should just... not approve them? Instead of closing it, I think walling the poster would be better. Or maybe, close the post and after a few hours, hide it.
- Control the amout of boring replays on the new battle replays thread
