Aries
Illustrious
Let me narrow my point a bit further.
Show me the members of the "community" here that are:
A) Interested in playing your games/unranked games
and
B) Are suddenly unincentivized to play them by the fact that these games are not considered "ranked" or stat tracked despite years of playing such games and not giving a single shit about that.
The only person that can be identified at this intersection is you. Nobody has paused at the sign ups for a SRM game where there's two cults or whatever and has gone, "Wait a second, this game won't be factored in to my player statistics? Humbuggery! I shall not play!".
This has never happened, it's not going to happen.
I guess you can call it whatever the split whatever the fuck you want but honestly this is dumb. It's not a big deal but also your complaint is invalid. I like the current terminology and prefer it since "standard" doesn't really reflect how these games are perceived and treated by the players involved, but if you want to try and plug this hole so badly go knock yourself out. I'd sooner prioritize just getting games ran and people playing them if I were you though
If you want to keep your circlejerk rankings as is that's fine, on Fanverse and WG you don't need to have the ranked and unranked tag attached to it to know if you sign up it's to be played at your best. You don't seem to get the irony of you having a preference of the way things should be run because of the way they were done on your old board but dumbfounded when someone else has their own preference on how to run things based on how they did it in their old board. It's not that complex mate, now that we have our own little section and sigis and myself are likely going to be over viewing it so why shouldn't I one of the Mafia mods of this section not have a say on the name or a preference on how it should be run?
As of now don't really care about the rank/unranked system which is why I don't want it attached to that sub section. It should be about peeps who want to do those kinds of games which are alternative to what system you guys have in place, you should worry less about if players want to join a game type or not that's not your job it's the hosts job.