I don't mean to try and drag this off topic, but often I wonder whether or not the Big and Dandy threads are in some ways detrimental to discussion of whatever specific drug is in question.
First, I should say that I think that having a central thread where people can post about what qualities a drug possesses is a good idea. But the BnD threads are frequently not focused on what effects the drug produces and instead consist of people asking the same questions – what's the dose, or what ROA to use, or how visual it is – over and over again. To be sure, not all of the posts are these sort of repeats, but a lot of them are.
Second, the length of the BnDs are rather prohibitive as far as reading the entire way through. But this gets to my main point: I have often seen people post threads asking X about drug Y, and I had responded to one of them that they should be using the BnD thread. The dude replied that it is very common for somebody to ask a question which gets totally ignored for whatever reason, or that it takes weeks to get any replies. I can definitely testify to both of those things having happened to me when I have posted in a BnD.
I wish it were possible for the rules to be relaxed ever so slightly, so that threads like this didn't necessarily have to be merged into the BnDs. Or even better, let threads like this exist for a while until they drop off the first page, and only then merge them into the BnDs. That way people could get timely answers to specific questions without having to wade through the seas of repeated questions and disjointed pseudo-conversations that take place in the BnD threads. For some reason it seems difficult to hold any substantive conversation in a BnD thread, and threads like this offer a nice middle ground via the delayed-merge option I mentioned just now.
Anyway, I know this isn't gonna happen, but I figured I'd post my musings on the subject in hopes of perhaps spurring some debate on the subject. I would post to start a new thread about this issue but I don't think it would be appropriate to post that in PD, and if I went to one of the support forums the vast majority of people in PD wouldn't see it.
Is it acceptable to post on this subject in PD so as to bring up the topic amongst the very people it would apply to?