villz
Bluelighter
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2002
- Messages
- 320
Just browsing through pillreports and it struck me that lately more and more people have been posting absolute bullshit in the comments section. Stuff like "had 4 pills 2 hours previously but this pill is shit didnt do anything to me" and "yeh very cokey pill but i could feel some heroin mixed with lsd in there so yeh they're very shit dont buy them". I have noticed this trend on bluelight recently, although i'm sure that it existed long before i joined. What worries me, especially with the popularity of pillreports, is that people read these comment, and take them as fact. I'm sure the percentage of people who just check pillreports cause some dude at a club told them about it, and don't bother to read bluelight or erowid or lycaeum etc etc is very high, because lets be honest, who can be fucked researching drugs on the internet?(except for the bored, the lonely, the curious and the stoners ) It still amazes me the amount of people i meet that speak quite obvious shit about drug (just read some of the threads in bluelight recently!). I don't hold anything against these people cause there was a time for everyone, especially when they are new to the scene, where they dont know much information, or only know what other equally mis-informed people tell them.
Anyway, my point is:
Maybe on the Index page, or the pill listing index, in BIG BOLD LETTERS so everyone can see it, would be a basic overview or FAQ (or link to) regardling well known knowledge such as "there is VERY RARELY heroin or coke in pills", "Taking other drugs or alchohol does not give you an accurate indication of what a pill does, so please do not post information in here unless absolutely necessary" and the like. Or possibly, first time visitors get taken to the FAQ page, to read before posting, with a cookie storing whether they've read it yet or not. Could possibly be difficult to implement well.... but I'm sick of reading about/talking to people that try to tell me that its the strychnine in pills that makes you all lovey and euphoric or that they can taste the difference between good and bad LSD. And i'm sure it CAN'T be good for a harm minimization point of view when their friends continue to propogate such shite to other people.
Thoughts/comments?
Anyway, my point is:
Maybe on the Index page, or the pill listing index, in BIG BOLD LETTERS so everyone can see it, would be a basic overview or FAQ (or link to) regardling well known knowledge such as "there is VERY RARELY heroin or coke in pills", "Taking other drugs or alchohol does not give you an accurate indication of what a pill does, so please do not post information in here unless absolutely necessary" and the like. Or possibly, first time visitors get taken to the FAQ page, to read before posting, with a cookie storing whether they've read it yet or not. Could possibly be difficult to implement well.... but I'm sick of reading about/talking to people that try to tell me that its the strychnine in pills that makes you all lovey and euphoric or that they can taste the difference between good and bad LSD. And i'm sure it CAN'T be good for a harm minimization point of view when their friends continue to propogate such shite to other people.
Thoughts/comments?