This community is barely ever supportive of initiatives like this. Everyone's always like "you won't get enough people anyway", "why bother, this game is dead", et cetera. If Reptile wants to set this up what's wrong with that? Can't you just wait and see whether it works before judging it? Why would it split the community anyway? It's not like people who join the ladder will suddenly refuse to talk to people who don't or something.

People need to be a bit more open-minded here.