PSA: Type Race threads are NOT for trading.

I don't participate in type race threads much anymore for personal reasons but are we saying that team members asking for help with breeding pairs or the likes is "begging"? That's really gross, imo, if that's the attitude we're going with. If someone's spamming a thread, I get it. But I view it rather unfair to consider one hand comments or asks for help as "begging".

I also want to confirm that the shiny / albino hatch announcements are a million times more annoying for me, too. I typically mute the type race threads because that's essentially all I see on them. I'm more than happy to keep notifs on if it's someone offering pairs, or asking to buy summon items, or announcing Pokérus, or even asking for free Pokémon (lord knows I have way too many!!), so long as it IS related to the typerace. I'd wager this means I also broke the rules a few times...? Though it has never been anything but a sidenote attached to a larger message. I HAVE had various warnings sent to me for little things before, all of which I respect and stepped back and altered how I operate on here for. This has never been one of them and hasn't been something I've seen talked about- and I am paranoid about rereading rules. I also am a bit puzzled by why requesting a specific Pokémon is considered begging. That seems like a rather large jump to me, though granted I am not the one sifting through a ton of forum posts a day and it's much less irritating for me to see in passing than others who have to read it constantly. But I see this on people's profiles and trainer cards constantly, so I don't really understand...? What makes it different here, why is it begging and not asking, what makes it unrelated to the type race thread or outside of the spirit of helping... and so on. It is a rule I can follow, but it really doesn't sit right with me. Apologies if this comes off as rude- I'm just, really confused.

Everyone here has made their valid points, and I'm not awake enough to type out everything, but I want to put my post in as support for these suggestions

i dont think you said anything wrong tbh!! i can explain why you haven't gotten any staff messages actually: bc of the way the reporting system works, someone would have had to 1) see your rulebreak on the TR thread (which often get multiple replies a day) and 2) care enough to report your individual message to flag it for the mod team. so it genuinely doesn't suprise me that you haven't ever received a message from staff about it cuz most people... don't really think of this rule and try and enforce it via the reporting system i do think that overall, the TR rules need to be reworked to allow more flexibility bcz i do not think its feasible for everyone to go to the trading threads to trade TR specials or help complete breeding pairs even if its not loaning.. n going off of what i got reported for a while back, if my teammate is gifting out specials they hatched during TR, it should be allowed to transpire in the TR thread and is often just easier and more accessible than trying to DM the user offering the specials, again bcz of how fast TR threads often move its nearly impossible to know whether specials are even still available...

I have given a few away to new players who don't have one as they only cost a few ip and to me I am not losing anything of value. Giving these to new players means that any new player as long as they charge to lvl 1 everyday has a chance as an albino at the very least. Without an albino radar a new player can't take advantage of the type race albino booster and then as much less intensive to participate in the race. Not a lot of new users even know what z crystals and fragments are so they aren't even bothering with those yet either. As for pair making help I feel this should be limited but still allowed. As again new users don't always have pairs. I have seen many post in my tr teams asking for extra of a team poke with nature /gender/in general to make a pair and if I have them or can find one in the shelter I just send it on over. I have never thought of this as teammates begging just asking for help for something that is team related and helps the team as a whole.

i really do agree with the other users saying that constant specials posting is way more spammy TO ME than a lot of the trade posts ive seen get bapped recently. don't get me wrong, it does make me super happy to see when people get the specials they want! it's awesome to see that, and it gives me a little joy if im not doing too well myself! i do think type race threads have been getting more spammy recently, too. i mute or don't even bother joining the thread very often anymore. the best middle-ground i could think of is limiting special hatches posts to maybe one each of s/a/m, with a 'heres everything i got!' post allowed towards the end or something. idk, thatd probably be insanely difficult to moderate argh, just kinda thinking out loud i do appreciate pushing out this update making sure people KNOW unrelated trading isn't allowed, but i have to agree with others saying the rule needs an update. as users have been learning new strats supp passes, summons and other seemingly unrelated items have become super important for getting points during type race! i know the mod team is super busy right now, but i think the reaction from the userbase shows that its time to re-check some of the rules and re-evaluate how relevant or outdated some of them are.

This literally happened to me this TR! I posted in the trade forum a while ago looking for Impish Gala Zigzagoons and got a grand total of 1 reply. I ended up just hoping to find one in a free field thread, but no luck.

Good evening! Assuming that rule four of the type race forum rules is not changing, would it be possible to add clarifying information to the rule? When I first saw this announcement, I was confused as to how I misunderstood the rule, as I have studied each one thoroughly in preparation to attempt TR leadership. The title itself says "unrelated trades", which in my mind went "trades unrelated to the type race". So for example, asking for a currency exchange, because this has absolutely nothing to do with the type race. Of course when you read the actual rule there is more detail. It does say "do not conduct trades except for xyz." Then it hit me as to why I misunderstood this rule. Until this moment I had considered a trade, a lend, and a gift to be 3 completely different things, and in this announcement you have clarified that a trade (exchanging one good for another), a lend (temporarily gifting an item with intention of receiving the item at a later time), and a gift (sending an item with no intention of receiving any return) are all considered "trades" in the context of this rule. I had previously understood that the rule meant to prevent using the thread to "make money" for yourself, prevent very obvious spam, and keep the thread cleaner. But now I get that the rule is meant to separate any type of transaction from the type race forum with exception for a few very specific transactions. Back to my original request, something like a small amendment that says something along the lines of "except for the exact trades listed above, absolutely no trades, lending, or gifts of any kind are allowed in Type Race Forums. For example, trades such as giving away lucky eggs or swapping live charms for dead ones, even if there is no fee charged, are not allowed in these threads." would have made the exact rules much clearer to me. Thank you for reading this block of text.

TBH I think that anything that is directly related to the TR--whether asking to trade/buy summons, asking for pairs, lending shelter/suppleir passes, etc.--should be allowed in the team thread. Not only is the trade forum inefficient, it's also prone to others jumping in. If I want to sell my S/A pokes from the race to only my team members I either have to verify they're on my team or remember who they are. And I have to specify this in the thread and oftentimes people don't fully read.