![]() If people want advise on things, there is all chat. If people need high level pokemon, there is a trade chat. If people need help, there is a help chat. Begging / panhandling is done by homeless people. Regardless, this comparing begging in PRO to begging in real life is a poor comparison. The description can be compared to getting a PM asking for something free. Law makers regulate it by defining "aggressive panhandling." More on this if you would like to read up on it. In places it is allowed, it is often regulated. ![]() Panhandling is banned in many parts of first world countries. It's something I thought about quite a bit actually ever since you brought it up, its a bit more complicated than just flat out banning it. Should beggers on the street be jailed or punished for begging? THAT'S the reason i locked myself in sinnoh region. You are right i also get pm when i go to older cities like kanto + johto e4 city they beg and i give once i had to give an epic joltik in kanto e4 for 7k cuz i was noob that time he told that he will buy it for 7k cuz he was willing to help but now i understand i was scammed. Feel free to moderate how you feel, but educating the community on how to identify and report these types of scams will make it a much more enjoyable game for players at all stages of the game. There must be a more aggressive rule that prevents this predatory behavior and encourages the community to report it. I have been extremely vocal about this topic and provided several real situations to multiple staff members in ways PRO scammers operate with begging via PMs. Asking for help is not a crime and should not be punished. The bottom line is, asking for free things should not be permitted through PMs. However, as a player, when someone tells me they need some money to travel to another region how am I supposed to know they are also asking 100 other people the same thing? How am I supposed to know the person they asked before me already gave them 5k and they are simply asking more people in hopes to get easy money? How am I supposed to know the sob story of giving away all their things last year to attend college is a lie devised to get me to feel sad for them? "If they are scamming or spamming, you can report them." - Sure.There needs to be rules preventing or discouraging scammers from hiding behind this reasoning. They mask their scams through asking for help in the form of pokedollars or free pokemon. "Asking for help is not against the rules." - This is true, however, this is what the scammers hide behind.Having to set myself to offline because I am PM'd for free things every other time I walk into a PC is frustrating. "If it annoys you, just turn off your PMs." - PRO's advantage over the Pokemon franchise games is the ability to socialize and play with friends.Also, I do not worry about me falling victim, I fear others falling victim to the scammers. As soon as the PM pops up, the feeling of frustration and disappointment has set in. ![]() "You can just ignore them." - This is not effective. ![]() How could you not give pokemon to someone that was so kind in the past? Do you have any pokemon you could give me?" - Advanced form of manipulation to make you feel sorry for the scammer.
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