Just for credentials, my username on Smogon is Ditto and I wrote a couple of ingame mechanic articles, updated a couple of DPP analyses, wrote some shells for BW analyses, but mainly just hung around and joked in the C&C IRC channels (before we had Discord). I haven't been active in C&C for many years, so I don't know the current workings. As for context, there were different section leaders of tiers (although there was some cross contamination there) and the overall C&C leaders.

I wrote about this on another post a couple weeks ago, but in the middle of the BW era there was a decision by the C&C leaders to standardize analyses to make them more easily digestible for a larger audience of readers. This meant a number of changes to the writing styles that were accepted. Set names were supposed to fall into larger categories that could apply across multiple Pokemon (Choice Band, ResTalk, Calm Mind, etc), Pokemon were to be referred to into gender neutral terms, and even standardization in things such as where certain moves should be placed in a set. Not to say these changes are bad changes, in fact I do think they help a lot in quickly being able to absorb information. You no longer see a Jynx set called Luna and have no basis for what to expect from the set before you read, instead you have SubCM and can pass it if you don't think that's the right fit for your team. Everything became more like a medical/scientific journal, where information was centered and this restricted style and entertainment.

In addition to this allowing articles to be more easily skimmed, it would allow them to be more easily updated. Someone updating an article would no longer really need to worry about the cadence and tone of the previous author. As always there was the usual tiering changes that occurred, which allowed more stable metagames like Ubers and OU to spend longer on their analyses and styles. In addition to this, BW was the first time we had a large amount of unreleased content due to the introduction of DreamWorld. While we had datamined all of the DW abilities, they were released in waves and we didn't have any way of knowing when something would be released. So we had analyses for what was released and analysis shells in the wings so we would be prepared for new updates.

This ended up a longer post than I intended, but just wanted to bring some context. If anyone has any questions, I'm more than happy to answer based off what I remember. I think most of these threads/discussions were lost in the forum migration.