To be fair Consumer it's not as bad as it was. The UK drought brought the majority of the users with Heroin as their DOC onto the forum, as for good or for bad, Bluelight works as it's a 'safe space' to not only discuss but enthuse about what would otherwise be a ridiculous notion for most of those with common sense, which of course includes most other non - problematic drug users. The wasters dissipated as the drug started to trickle back through but for those who stayed they genuinely found the opportunity to discuss Heroin use and culture with other moderately intelligent people..
(of course everyone from all walks of life use this drug habitually but despite becoming quite engaged with the local market as a reliable, greedy pig of a customer over the years, I have met only one person through that set up that I would consider a friend, the only other user I ever developed and maintained a relationship with. I have spent countless hours in the company of other users while, like a police beacon, we have all waited like idiots for some lazy yahoo to wait until there are 30 people waiting to do his 'job'. Over the years I have become acquainted with many of them but the relationship has never extended beyond that a normal person would have with those who they see at the bus stop on there way to work. One should not, especially when their own behaviour is just as stupid and careless, consider the stereotypical heroin addict but from out of everyone I met I would have not have entertained a single one. Almost all described themselves as acquisitive, occasionally violent, habitual criminals, or patients I recognised from my former life with severe and enduring mental illness and they were for the most part, incredibly stupid, much of the time when actually considering the quality of the drugs themselves with countless idiots perfectly happy buying crap and making someone else's life a misery doing it. Call me a snob, I appreciate that most of these characters probably didn't have a hope in hell to begin with while I threw so much away, but I really could not find anything in common with a single one, bar the girl I described above.)
...a lot stuck around and were really good posters, we lost a few (rip
) and a few experienced older posters had already been around that block and left it behind before rediscovering proper drugs. The majority of the threads discuss 'healthier' (from a social perspective) drugs, psyches, stims, head space experience that actually invites qualitative discussion. While the effect of heroin is far from boring, someone under the influence is boring, discussing various heroins is boring (they all either do the job, half a job or they don't) and after living with it for an influential amount of time, it makes the user permanently boring while dependent. In the last 12 months I've been pretty good fun for about 4 or 5 days, of which the most was made by me and my company. The rest of the time I deserved to be on my own. I know this because I was much better for this for most of life, even after I kicked it the first time.
I cannot speak for the AusDD and the Meth, but I do believe that I am one of an ever dwindling group of problematic opiate abusers to regularly post. It is better that this aspect of EADD is shrinking, but I still believe that it's essential that even the most chaotic heroin / polydrug abusers can feel welcome posting without getting bollocked by everyone for risky behaviour (which admittedly is difficult when the poster is actively discussing routine combinations of the most dangerous cns depressants & alcohol) and they are more likely to listen and respect the essential HR these kind of customers inevitably need when they join if they are made to feel like they are in the right place.
I started using Bluelight in 2005 (through Pillreports) but just used it as an Erowid style resource for years. It wasn't until all the heroin in the UK disappeared overnight in 2010 that I started posting in EADD.
As for gun- toting hip gangster - if you managed to make it through my post you will see I'm not much help I'm afraid. The last poster I was acquainted with a long standing a/c was 'Si Dred' (joined 2002?) who was posting regularly until last summer but not since. Sorry x
