People Who Need to be Slapped

Part 2: Pokemon Players on the GTS

So, I've been playing the new pokemon game on the DS (Pearl version, since the signature pokemon is a water type. I like water types). I've got a lot of things I like about it. Nothing that would persuade anybody else to play it, but I like it. Especially the fact that I can make trades over the internet. And meet people to make trades over the internet. Without my little brother playing another version, I've managed to gain the assistance of internet peoples and gather nearly every single pokemon.

However, there is a dark side to this use of the internet. To facilitate trading, Nintendo created an in-game way of using the internet to trade pokemon; you put a pokemon into their internet servers, asking for another, and hopefully someone else will search for the one you offered, and decide to send you the one you asked for. The system is rigged so that you can only ask for pokemon that you've encountered before.

Yet this system has become clogged with horrible people. This system, the Global Trading System, is often clogged with people offering relatively common pokemon for others that are, for instance, event-only. So a lot of people are trying to make unrealistic trades, and thus it is harder for people to make realistic trades.

But if you're thinking that's the only reason these people need to be slapped. Because, if you'll remember, one can only ask for pokemon that they've encountered, and have been entered as such in their pokedex. And the only ways they could get these event-only pokemon is to have them already, because it's impossible to get the pokedex entry from a pvp battle, which is the only other way someone can see these super-rare pokemon.

So these guys not only already have their super-rare pokemon, but they're asking for more, while offering pokemon that any idiot could get.

How do these people not get slapped on a regular basis?