https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4185/hello-trainer-mod-champion
on the official pokemon forums you may also be able to reach page 5
Technically it's twice as easy to reach page 5 there because Smogon shows 20 posts per page while they have 10 posts per page. However, most topics don't manage to last that long these days with activity slowing down, yet new topics on the important issues of Pokemon are still being formed today and being responded to.
I recently received the 25 LOLs badge that only 4 people have, despite only having 24 LOLs currently.
There is some hard hitting discussion on the localization of the new anime.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6132/horizons-will-also-have-its-jp-ost-removed
Controversial debates are constantly being posted.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6120/who-is-better-floragato-or-meowscarada#latest
People are just posting images about anything now.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6194/funny-pokemon-screenshots#latest
Even meta moderator criticism is approved.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6158/why-was-this-thread-taken-down#latest
Digimon is approved.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/5731/pokemon-vs-digimon-worlds-collide#latest
Unofficial pokemon dreams are approved.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6119/i-had-a-weird-pokemon-dream#latest
MajorBrendan always seems to be thinking outside the box with a new idea in every thread and I like that. His optimism truly knows no bounds and I will not be the one to crush his dreams, though the state of Gen 9 spinoffs doesn't seem very interesting so far.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6161/pokemon-sports-genre-spin-off-game#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6191/gen-9-gen-10-spin-off-game-potentials#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6115/pokemon-contest-style-spin-off-games#latest
This thread actually has a lot of creative ideas out here to compensate for the lack of modern battle frontiers.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/6152/design-your-own-postgame-battle-facility#latest
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us...ever-walked-under-the-heavens-ask-me-anything
I saw this thread briefly last week and flagged it, thinking it would easily disappear as a rule-breaking post. I did not expect the outcome that "Mod_Champeon" would take action by removing the external URLs, but leave the mention of unofficial Pokemon products up.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/3619/fix-the-game
It seems like this Mod_Champeon prefers to stick to editing posts rather than posting directly themselves. I actually tried looking for their posts, and discovered that there isn't even a user named Mod_Champeon registered on these forums. However, there is a similarly named Mod_Champion who seems to be rather unpopular.
https://community.pokemon.com/en-us/discussion/4185/hello-trainer-mod-champion
Personally I think the theory that the Mod_s are some kind of robots or AI is actually plausible based on their behaviour, and if so, these forums may be a dark look into the mirror at the future of moderation. It would explain why there are so many moderators across all the different languages yet all being redundant to serve the same purpose, and why some don't seem to be real users, despite their names being credited to edited posts in the present day. It doesn't seem like they have the ability to post anything regarding an opinion or anything about the games themselves, and it makes sense that a niche beta TCG app bug reporting forum would be the perfect testing environment for canned responses against the complaints of fans. Perhaps this has all been a controlled experiment that goes all the way up to Nintendo to observe if a family friendly community can ever be properly governed by AI.