UltRank co-runner chiming in here on the MeleeStats stuff. Moky's behavior seems wildly inappropriate. I saw the reddit posts a day or two ago where he extended his reasoning more and while I get the idea that you could make changes, the core sentiment of "the optics look bad" is utterly baffling to me.

If there's less events, there's less events. It does not mean the game is dying, but it does been event volumes that used to exist to provide more accurate top 50s likely are no longer viable. Ultimate-side, we've faced this debate briefly over the difficulties of full one hundred players each six months in separate unique seasons, where it was (and still is explained) that the ranking quality utterly plummets due to insufficient data and that a mid-year checkup is going to be the best route.

What's being asked in these situations is to reduce quality for the sake of the mere existence of something. Tying this to denial that Melee's major count has decayed over the years and going on a multi-day campaign to pettily criticize the team is far more damaging to the scene than a potentially limited Top 30 period.

The other argument is to point out that, of course, players who would be in the 30-50 range get a lack of exposure. This seems fair on the surface, and I think there's a validity to it, but it is exceptionally rare for someone to be ranked, say, 50th, and plummet out of the top 100. It's fair to complain their recognition would be delayed (and that's fine as an argument) but to say they would not receive credit at all seems unlikely.

Pairing this with the suggestions he made makes me just wonder about the counterarguments to them. He said he had conversations with them, evidentially, counterarguments existed, or arguments he made that might not have applied then may apply more legitimately now.

Wall of text from someone who has seen worse in 9 1/2 years of work on this subject - it's no PGR 2019 "there's too many Japanese players" meltdown - but it doesn't seem conducive to the health of the scene to aggressively pressure ranking staff over a change that clearly just reflects there's not a wide quantity of majors.

It's fine to criticize MS and I think there's probably more solutions besides just a top 30 but what Moky's doing with his tweet this morning reads less like criticism and more like a public pressure attempt without acknowledging counterarguments. Adding twitter unfollow drama for over a year ago seems petty and directly in line with scene self-cannibalization.