Puschkin

So you did it again - twisting the topic until you can talk about your trolls again. Please stop and let this deck rest in peace.

Vault might be more casual than most deckbuilding sites, nevertheless, less competitiveness is still competitiveness. "Artistic hobby" or not, the goal of a deck is still to win the game. Phyrexia, however, was built around the LORE of Magic and there simply is zero competition in that.

Also, tell me why a deck with "1st turn kill" in the title gets more views and a deck description with flashy openings gets more likes. Or why budget is such a big issue here. Heck, even battle for attention here is competitive, who gets more replies and likes, who makes it front page etc. You can't deny that. You have complained about it yourself time and again. The entire place's structure is fostering competition. And they crowd here is eating this up. NOBODY uses tags to search for older decks - otherwise I would get replies for older Decks. I have almost 100 public decks, all of them with detailed descriptions and proper deck tags and they date back as far as 2013. But they only receive comments when they are new. And that means nobody ever searches for anything, nobody looks back. If they truly cared, if they really were artists, they would. Because there are gems buried there and in casual decks don't really age. But alas, that's not the case. You have one shot when you publicize the deck for the first time and when it doesn't crate a buzz immediatedly, it'll get buried. Which is why there is a competition for attention and indirectly also for quality of the decks because casual or not, you won't get that critical mass of attention with a shitty deck or an incoherent pile.

So don't tell me there is no difference.

You can't force communities. And the community of Phyrexia was already established when you came around. Most importantly: Deckbuilding was only one of the Nine Spheres and not even the most important one. That place was build on stories and as such it attracted different folks with different mindsets and very different needs.
MTGVault, however, has a single purpose and focus on deckbuilding. Even without the wolrd around us changing, generation clash and all, that's still a huge difference. Deckbuilding means competitiveness, even in a more casual setting like Vault, and that has huge impact on community building.

Well, if this is your new hobby, then don't complain about it, ok? And maybe don't weaponize other users, dragging them into it.
See, Phyrexia died, which is something that really struck me. You came here to one of my decks and wrote something comforting about this topic - a single sentence. Then you started ranting about your personal troll and that's what we are discussing now, in one of my decks. Can't you see the problem here? That would have been thread-hijacking in a forum like Phyexia. And I am in no mood for your troll infestation problems right now when I am mourning Phyrexia.
And no, you haven't become less ranty. You just split them up now and veil them more. Again, a friend here telling you maybe uncomfortable truths:
I much much prefer an occasional big but coherent and on point rant about a specific topic, preferably in it's own thread/deck, over dozens of smaller ranty snippets across as many threads and other people's works.
EDIT:
And yes, I am aware that these replies suddenly catapult this deck on top of hot decks and therefore might get attention but that's not what I want.

In all honesty, if you spam content just to give him too muhc to do, you are essentially a troll yourself. And you posting and ranting all over the place is most likely one of the reasons why you got that personal stalker in the first place ... I mean, I like you and find many of your projects fascinating, but at the same time it gets tiresome at some point because whatever you do, you do it obsessively. For example, your obessession with mill had the sideeffect that you suggested to add mill cards to some of my decks that had no intention to mill whatsoever. This, as well as your tendency to pluck your projects to everything, basically just replying a one-liner as an excuse to make advertisement for your own project, all of this can be annoying at times.
So, for everybody involved, please tone it down and don't fight fire with fire.

Also, he might be using a bot to downvote, in which case you can't exhaust him anyway.

But, the way you talk about it, I sense that you see this as a kind of fun pasttime to battle him, amyright?

No, trust me, it's a kind of game for him and the attention you give him fuels him.

Dude, you should know that the best way to get rid of them is to ignore them. Every time you mention him, you feed him.

Well, Phyrexia was a unique place. You came in comparetively late. I was not first generation either (came in around the Exodus) and it took a very hard, long and rough road to earn their respect. Yet, it was one of if not THE most sworn in community I've ever met.
On surface, almost every Phyrexian behaved like a troll itself, but within the unwritten rules a true troll sticks out like a sore thumb and was the natural loser of any and all fights. Nothing unites better than a common enemy.

Ever tested this?

Ever played this?
Umezawa's Jitte would also be a good equipment for this.

haha, that's the, how to say it ... suboptimal notification system! It was actually me to respond late (somewhere up here, dialog with TheSwarmer). But since WD has subscribed he got an notification. And since the second last post in here was his, he assumed I replied to him two hours ago :)

Hi, are you still around? Ever played this deck?

And thank you for notifying!

That is actually a very nice attitude :)

Well, thanks then :)

Well, I was wondering less about the flux and more about where those hits went ... I made so many creative decks and wrote so many instructions and put so much effort in many of those, but rarely someone gives a damn. Then I did this pile of trash in a few minutes, which isn't even meant to be played and just an exercise and ... people love it?

By now I think notifications have a kind of expiration date. They just won't be applied if I log in a few weeks later.

All my decks will be Vintage. And after so many years here on Vault I know one thing for sure:
Tags are only for information purposes but nobody ever searches for them! A deck that doesn't get attention when it's new and thus up the "Active decks" category, it'll never get attention later on.

Late answer: Well, we also fight with it from time to time, but ultimately, the group stayed sane and the power creep slow. Degenerate decks aren't fun and if you spot one, people gang up on you. Also, well, we TALK about what is acceptable, what not and WHY. This isn't without conflict of course, but if anything, our issue isn't insta win combos or super aggro, it's actually control. If there's too much of it, games last forever and actually doing something that could progress the game is punished.
It also helps that we don't play very often anymore, that most of us stopped buying new cards and that we hardly have time to build new decks ... I have more than 30 active decks but the "newest" one is almost as old as my son (which is no coincidence :( ),

What the .... you guys did a great discussion about the good old times in one of MY decks THIS year and I didn't get any notification? And I thought the site was as dead as a Suicide Black player on turn 10!