Usually Smogon has been a well respected Pokemon competitive battling community, but recently (since Gen V) it's undergone a bit of criticism because of how the tiers are set up (strong Pokemon being put in lower tiers, i.e. UU in Gen 6 would demolish UU in Gen 3) or excessive and possibly unnecessary bans, with a lot of the drama centered around Swagger, Aegislash, and Mega Mawile. So I just wanted to know what your guys opinions of Smogon is right now. Do you agree with how things are set up right now or do you think they're going a little too far? Or do you think something different?

To be honest, I find its existence a bit funny. It lets people take this game way too seriously.

Did I say I was complaining? You're acting like I was completely against your argument. I enjoy using Pokemon Showdown which for the most part is run by Smogon rules. And yes I'm aware that the metagames change by every generation but I feel like a lot of Pokemon in lower tiers are perfectly viable at least one tier higher than they are, but hey that's just me. In another thread there was a lot of complaining about Mega Mawile's suspect test so I wasn't sure how people felt about Smogon or maybe they were just upset with that one case.

Ive said this is another post: Smogon seems to be listening to those that whine and complain the loudest as of late.

Ive aslo looked through some of the posts in the Smogon's thread, and I cant really say that I agree with them.

I have nothing against smogon in general. In all they are just a competitive group that sets it rules by votes/popularity. However I do feel they should open voting to more than just the top players. Not all good players can sit hours on showdown to get a COIL rating to vote. I'd like a vote via essay or something added.

I think the major heartburn Smogon gets nowadays is that the casual side of the community is becoming less and less of a thing as their bans become more top-tier based rather than over-centralization. In previous gens Smogon WAS the ruleset for all battles casual or competitive. Simply because of the difficulty to match up on DS games and the popularity of Shoddy/Showdown to play instead.
Then with this gen you have easy breeding, much easier to play match ups in-game, and popularity in e-sports making VCG more popular as well as PO and Pokebattle giving Smogon competition. Which I'm sure is forcing them to focus on becoming a more hardcore competitive group rather then their old "competitive authority" standing.

In the end if you dislike Smogon's rules/bans then play by another, unlike the past generations there is quite a few more options to play, either casual or competitive sided, In-game or Sim played.