I like the fact people post in here the shiny hunts and success stories no matter what generation it's from. I find it helps keep people motivated on their own hunts seeing people achieving their targets and being rewarded. At the end of the day we're all in this together in a way and our goals are the same. I thinks it's silly not being able to celebrate that success with one another without being warned over silly rules.
If the majority of people disagree that's fair enough and I'll keep my hunts to myself if they're not gen 5 but I just think it would be a shame to not hear from certain people and helping each other out.
Actually, I couldn't agree more!
It seems that the majority of the shiny hunters have migrated here, and the other threads in the other gens are pretty much dead. I have each thread bookmarked and I check them regularly, because it's fun to read of other people hunting, and seeing those shiny Pokes motivate you, but they either never have a new post, or very little activity has occurred.
Pokemon is the type of game that you can easily go back to a previous gen and play through it, and all of the games are connected in some ways to the others, whether via Pal Park or any other way. It's inevitable that we'd be going back to a previous gen to get some Poke we couldn't get easily in another gen or whatever, and so we'd be playing different gens all over the place. As a community, we sometimes need that motivation, and posting about it in a thread that no one looks at for several months makes for a pretty lonely feeling.
I actually have two new shinies that I haven't posted about, but I haven't really had the motivation to do it due to this, whether that sounds silly or not.
I'm not meaning to single out people, but there have been a few other posts where people have mentioned their hunts in older gens within this thread. I don't have a problem with that, but what I'm getting at is the fact that we're all human, and we're going to post some things like that without probably thinking about it in the first place. It just seems natural to want to share our hunts with one another.
Edit: I just wanted to say, too, that it's not about bragging that you got a shiny or anything like that. It's about sharing your success with others that understand, because let's face it, not many people will care about it in every day life.
Edit 2: I'm sorry, I just sort of read through my post again, and it probably comes off a bit as a garbled mess, so sorry about that. It's just some rambling thoughts, though.
