Well, managing a thread is actually very easy, and trading might take me... about 5 minutes because I need to get trade backs from clones. It's far easier and faster to look for a pokemon on the forums than to breed one. I stopped breeding because I spent more than 9 hours(not conecutively tough), to breed a modest magnemite, and this is the best IV spread I could get:
1/30/1/31/31/31
Just tell me, is it worth 9 hours of breeding to get a pokemon I will never trade?
That's why I trades redis.
I have about.... 20 redis in my thread, about 15 semi-redis, wich is from what I've got rights, and I have like 8 pokemons bred for me. That's what unsignificant redis has helped me to get. I am more a collector than a battler, because I prefer to use shoddy, but I consider redis are good for battling, they are easy to get, and most are very good.
I think redis are as good as other pokemons, the only diference is that other people have them too, what's the problem if somebody else has the same pokemon than you?