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Erowid's experience report approval policy

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I've been wondering what's wrong with the Erowid experience report approval policy. For me it doesn't make any sense. I mean, there are some substances (like benzos) where there are no experience reports available, and there's a link "Submit a report to Erowid". I for example wrote one report of a substance where there were no pre-existing experience reports of the specific substance, but it didn't get approved. I mean, isn't a bad experience report better than no experience reports at all? I've seen some really bad experience reports in Erowid, and I think the one I wrote was a decent one. Is it like they have a shitload of experiences from where some admin randomly picks a few to be published, even if they were submitted many years ago? Or is it like they get experience reports, they get read as soon as possible and then someone decides if they're going to be published or trashed? It seems quite weird policy they have there. 8)
 
They have an approval policy? Weird, because almost half of the reports are utter and complete outright lies, which anyone who actually used the substances can see clearly right off the bat.
 
^yep, ive read through most of the reports on erowid, and i found a good amount of bullshit, even drugs ive never taken like heroin, i could still tell some of it was bullshit, i tried to submit an experience, im not even sure if it went trough, i should check, be right back.......
 
They use a triage system, whereby a report has to be read and approved by three seperate reviewers before it is uploaded as a new report.

Some make it in months, some years.


P.S Does this thread belong in this forum??
 
I'll go ahead and take care of that... :)

And I think it actually belongs in Second Opinion. Do you agree with me SO mods? :)
 
I'm someone who reads and rates reports for Erowid. Their system requires several people to rate each report, and then one of the reviewers adds dosage information, makes any changes necessary/adds disclaimers, and publishes it. Only reports rated highly enough make it (although as you can tell the requirement isn't strict at all...). The reason reports take so long to publish a lot of the time is because there are over 14,000 unread reports in the database, and the number grows larger every day. There simply aren't enough people helping. You can volunteer if you don't mind doing some usually boring work for the community.
 
are there any requirements to become a volunteer? or any commitments? For example a certain number of reports one should rate per week?
 
In order to be a volunteer, you must first do a thumbprint from the Family. Then you can be trusted.
 
yeah some of the reports are like, " YEAH WHEN I WAS 7 I SHOT UP HEROIN SMOKED CRACK AND HAD SEX WITH A DONKEY AND THEN INJECTED PCP INTO MY ASSHOLE"
 
<<They have an approval policy? Weird, because almost half of the reports are utter and complete outright lies, which anyone who actually used the substances can see clearly right off the bat.>>

Ditto. I remember reading this one LSD "trip report" that was so bad that you could actually feel your eyes plowing through the bullshit.
 
My report on codeine/alcohol/pot (which i believe to be fairly well-written) hasnt been accepted amongst all the 40-100mg reports of "A fucking awesome nod ZOMG!@@!#"
 
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