As I see it there are very few shops around here, and most of the threads on the first page are just people wanting to show off their art. I'm not going to waste my time requesting in someone's thread when they might not even take commissions. If you could make the signature for me I'd appreciate it. You can use any reference picture you want. Thanks again.
"Just showing off their art" is what this section exists for. As a side, people are permitted to organize their threads in a way that they can take requests. As Circuit said, those specific threads marked "Gallery/Shop" and "Shop" are specific to taking requests. You can't waste your time requesting a request
(a commission is a paid work, don't get those two terms confused) in a thread that wouldn't take it because that's not allowed anyways.
Though we've gotten off point.
Request threads are perfectly appropriate, so if one of the artists from the shops wanted to do this they would check it out anyways. Thank you guys for the input for helping to create a better worded request, but telling someone to go look through shops or recommending a specific artist isn't really helpful to these types of threads.