There is always place for a middle ground. Create Big and Dandy threads for "psychedelic activities" if it really is deemed necessary. Don't just have them scattered about. Centralize discussion, this alone will already get the forum cleaned up.
PD was once a snooty forum that was pretty daunting and unwelcoming to noobs and those not deeply into psyches. It is now friendly, fun, welcoming and just as informative as ever.
I'm sorry but I agree only to a certain extent. All this socializing detracts from PD and other forums. Why has Drug Culture been created and what purpose does it serve anymore if PD now houses a majority of these kind of topics instead? It should house the social and lighthearted discussions that should be kept out of the focus forums as much as possible. Why detract from other forums? Why do you have to create a community sense in PD alone? Why not venture into other forums instead? This is not EADD where everything under the sun is discussed, it's not a regional forum. This is PD, advanced discussion of psychedelics and dissociatives. Go to other forums and discover the whole of BL instead of this incestuous PD socializing, get a feel for the BL community as a whole, not the "PD community" alone. Now that is snooty.
And yes, I have noticed a decline in quality and informative posts, I'm sorry to say, although the general tone here has improved somewhat. All the "what should I do on", the "look at this cool stuff" or the many other types of topics that are more social and lighthearted in nature than anything else, they can drown out the more informative and insightful posts. I really don't see how it promotes harm discussion all that much. You can be welcoming without having all these social threads as well. Plus, all the basic psychedelic questions seem to permanently stay in PD. Great they can be answered more quickly and accurately sometimes, but when they have been answered, move them to their respective forum, BDD. That would significantly clean up the forum as well. Basic questions are just that, basic, imo they have a place in BDD, not PD. Again, that's why that forum was created, to serve basic questions. There has to be a distinction between forums instead of "trying to keep it all in the (PD) family".
Another suggestion would be to have a more intertwined relationship with the people of ADD. Some of their threads are incredibly informative and a move back and forth here and there could possibly benefit both forums. The creation of ADD meant that parts of PD were sacrificed, which in some ways really is a loss to this forum. I've also noticed, that, while there's certainly a lot more people browsing that forum with great amounts of wisdom than back in the days of it's creation, they have a bit of a problem with keeping it truly advanced. I mean, "DXM has notably improved my intelligence" or "STORAGE bk-MDMA Questions" aren't that advanced that they couldn't be answered by the people of PD, to name just 2 quick examples.
I remember what a great job you had done with CD (which is also very differnt then a few years ago).
Anyway, id love to see you whip this place back into shape.
lol, thanks for the praise, but I didn't exactly leave in good standing, I was dishonourably discharged by being MIA for a long time due to personal issues. Plus, I don't have as many posts here as a moderator should have (at this moment that is). I don't think I would be considered to be up for the job anyways given my replies in this thread, possibly alone out of fear of "scaring people away" from PD. I could give it a try temporarily perhaps if administration obliges, but there are other people who are probably more suited for the job. What I could be useful for though, is cleaning up/organizing some of the big and dandies and getting rid of all that vendor talk which has been going on here, which just annoys me. I tend to be pretty on top of those kind of things, but again, other people could do that too.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
and always have been... unavoidable stuff gets in the way sometimes though - shitey, dull, technical shite usually... but I think I probably needed a step back anyway so maybe the elves interevned... I'll ask 'em next week 
