You can check in the dutch section where it happened in 2004 or 2005 in some "explosion topic", yes, I'm pretty sure I'm banned, forever. I sent him an email a year or so later because I wanted to reply to some interesting thread there with perhaps some valuable information, but no such luck, completely ignored. Tbh I was pretty passive aggressive myself, but only in reply to bait from mindless degenerates which remained in place, I was busy replying, he made a reply in the meantime telling people to remain calm, but when I pressed enter on my sheople post, his was there already, so I was the scapegoat, so to speak.
It was basic harm reduction, noone knows what you're taking, for all we know you're gonna die if you take 2-3 vials of something completely unknown, instead you ban the guy who warns you about it (albeit a little abusively, but lol, this is how you reach a stupid audience).
But I put a lot of time and energy and thousands of dollars into trying to help that site run
Yeah and that's why you should stop doing this. It's a known pyramid scheme where half the money mysteriously dissappears into the owners pockets. You're not the only one who's donated a lot of money, and honestly, where'd it all go? Ask yourself that. Hosting is cheap af in the Netherlands, a vbulletin board (or w/e it is) isn't some high tech fancy software he made all on his own, it's proprietary and he uses it for a little fee.
I saw that donation bar a while ago, round christmas or something when I googled a certain obscure chemical, kind of a kick in the pants. What was it? Too much imo. It can't ever cost that much to migrate to new software/servers.
I'm just paranoid and hold grudges though, mental problems and whatnot.
I don't like to see fora go either, not drugs-forum, not the lycaeum, not the dextroverse, overgrow, the hive, it sucks. I like to see reddit go though, rather sooner than later.