guys let's remember that this is a very public very open forum. I have no authority here, but just a friendly little bit of advice is that we should all keep in mind that anyone can come here and read the posts. A lot of threads I see recently are not the type of thing you really want to talk about on a forum like this. I know source discussion is not allowed, and that is a good thing, but way to many people are hinting sources. Salmon is doing a good job moderating it, but stuff still gets through the cracks. Just remember that you don't want to draw attention to yourself, and you don't want to help some little kid who shouldn't have access to powerfull psychedelics get his hands on them by trading sources carelessly. Greed is the down fall of everything. Get greedy about sources to the point you will whore yourself out for them, and eventually you are going to whore yourself to the wrong person is all I am saying. to the people who want sources, the best thing you can do is not randomly ask for them or hint heavily that you want them. Make friends with people here to the point that you are cool with them. Learn about these chemicals and show what you know by helping people out who have questions. I met some good online friends on hipforums back in the day and we learned a lot about drugs together. After you are friendly with someone and you have both demonstrated you know about these substances and are responsible, then trade all your sources with them and you two just doubled your sources. Then go and post reviews in all the threads on undrugged or whatever database you use, it doesn't matter, of all the vendors you have already used. People will see that your reviews are honest when the vendor pulls through for them after you say it is legit, and they will see you are dishonest if you lie about a vendors quality, and eventually you will get a reputation. From there you will just keep making new friends and getting more sources at an exponential rate, and eventually you or one of your friends will probably set up a private forum and it will go from there. It is silly to just come to a public forum like this with no reputation and expect that you are going to get sources, and it is sad that it actually works for people these days. I think we should keep the discussion here to harm reduction and chemical information, not sources or how to sell shit. Obviously these are free speech forums, but remember that free speech is a double edge sword; you are free to say what you want, but others are free to listen, and in this community you don't really want the wrong people to listen, and a forum as open as hip forums is going to be crawling with the wrong people. I don't mean cops, I mean people who shouldn't be getting sources because they are not responsible or they are too young.
Im new to this VERY public forum myself...and everything above that was said by phen....shit nailed it on the head.
Agreed and stickied. Well over the last 3 weeks we've done a little better job keeping this forum clean. I think the stickies, the more frequent moderation seem to be doing the job. I'll open this thread back up now. If we need to re-address the situation later, we can do that here.
Aside from the good points phen has made let me say that some people getting further along with sources will want to consider using encryption with their IM and email. I can post more information if need be. http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/ http://www.pidgin.im/ http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable http://enigmail.mozdev.org/home/index.php http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151395&package_id=183205 (Sourceforge link is to GPG for thunderbird, 1.4.7) Enjoy, -me
im not gonna lie, as a newbie i came here, but i didnt really force sources from ppl but quickly tried to make friends and my list has grown exponentially, and i kno no one can really vouch for me for sure i guess, but i realize how important it is to b careful about who knows what and who gets your sources. if i was one of "wrong people" i easily could have had many many sources and caused a lot of trouble...lol GREAT THREAD!
