We are currently experiencing a flood of requests from bots scraping the forums. Unfortunately it has gotten to the point where it is negatively impacting the site. As a result the forums may be slow and you may periodically experiance an error message.
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Moving to Pokepolls, and please do not make this a "I haven't missed any, I have a shiny ____!" thread, there's already a sticky for discussing your shinies in 3rd Gen Discussion.