Asking for a Pokemon to keep, free or not, isn't a problem IF the other player has already offered to give away Pokemon for that purpose, but why is PMing the player to take them up on their offer not the go-to method for players, instead of posting in the Type Race thread? A private trade like that just... isn't the business of all the other players in the thread?
probably because the idea is, if i publicly state im asking for the pokemon, others know its taken. rather than the person getting multiple pms and having to PM each person back, one comment reply going "oh ill take it" and everyone else knows its gone. if that makes sense.
basically i think it is the buisness because its an offer to all the other players on the thread, so its their buisness to know when its gone. the person can edit it, but thats after they pm everyone whos already asked. imo its just cleaner
While that makes some sense for unique Pokemon like specials, established breeding pairs or shelter passes, it wouldn't encompass giveaways of the spare Pokemon they're presumably hatching in droves.
Someone earlier suggested maintaining a single post with offers that the leader could link to in the first post and update when things were out on loan and therefore unavailable. That makes a lot of sense to me. A lot easier than seeing someone post that they were offering a star pass for loan and needing to check the next couple pages of posts to make sure no one took them up on it.
...it really doesn't help that PFQ forums unfortunately weren't designed for the type of high-traffic, multi-purpose threads that Type Race threads have turned out to be.
@skiddo: Players aren't forbidden to offer to give away free Pokemon. The limit is posting the offer once per Type Race thread, because before limits were put into place there were players making the same offering posts every few pages.
