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Suggestion WiFi Pokemon Want board

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I went to the trade thread and I can say im a bit dissapointed in it. I think this site would benefit greatly with a want board so that people can post Exactly what they want and get reply's instead of having to look through 500+ posts to find what they want. Not only is it time consuming but also frustrating when people don't have a lot of time on the computer, not only that but people could also miss a great trade with someone else and I've seen people overlook others (yes i know part of life) but I feel that it would be easier.

Now this board would only be fore the games available to use via wifi, but i think people will also be more happy with it. Not to mention it will be in a designated area where people can 'seek' what they want. It won't make the boards cluttered unless someone spams in it, I have my own pokemon forum with a similar board and it works wonderfully. Just a suggestion on bettering the boards :)
 
I completely agree with this, especially the fact that I have to look through so many posts and end up not finding what I want/need.
 
How would you propose this is organized? By user? (i.e., I maintain my trade listing thread, you maintain yours). By Poke? I don't want a new thread every time someone's looking for a poke--that seems like it would get spammy and cluttered. But I would be curious about putting together a system that's fairly organized but fits your idea.
 
What's so hard about posting what you want on that thread and linking in your sig.

A lot of people in the past had posted a list of "wants" and "offers" and even linked the post to their sigs. The only problem I find with that thread was how people would chitchat in it rather than arrange the trades by PMs.

I guess it could work if everyone is limited to one thread where they conduct all their trades because I could see it getting really spammy with some people posting a thread every day.
 
Outrage has a good point, keeping one thread per person would keep it less cluttered. Have a link in the sig or some where on their profile for their thread so they dont forget :)
 
I think we could do something like this on one of the wikis.
 
Hmmm... I personally like this, but then again I'm not an admin. But, I think the best way to organize it would be to have each user have one thread.
 
AiedailEclipsed said:
Hmmm... I personally like this, but then again I'm not an admin. But, I think the best way to organize it would be to have each user have one thread.
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Yeah and updating it through the Edit button is very simple. Plus, the thread need not get cluttered with 'What can I offer' or 'What do you want for's because of the amazing VM and PM systems.
 
I completely support this idea, but I think that the major problem with everybody having one thread, would be that if people went to browse on the sub-forum, then they'd only see the newer posts.
Sigs could only generate a very limited amount of traffic to your trade thread, so very few people would actually see it.

My support is behind posting when you need something, but enforcing a defined no thread spamming policy on the board.
 
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