i don't mind a little side talk as long as it's relivant but the constant mod/schtick and newbs and peeps just asking about stamps that nobody has had is lame and the steady stream of warnings really just keeps pissing me off and this thread has gone to shit and ain't wha it once was. i feel it is valuable but i hasn't been fun lately so close it i don't give a fuck. i'm ired of having the threat of it being closed looming constantly. that's how i feel, yo.
Yea, I agree that it aint been fun lately. But the thread aint really here to be fun yo just to be devils advocate....its here to give information about stamps....we got lots of social thread and other dope thread. But I do know wat you mean. The stamp thread used to be a place where users could chill at and bulshit with each other and didnt need someone to tell us wat was too far off topic and wat was reasonable. We knew wat was shady to post and didnt post it, and there wasnt no problems with sourcing and shit for the mos part, becuz originally it was long time junkies with plenty of connects who copped shit and shared the info , not newjacks lookin for hookups who dont know shit about dope and use the thread for other reasons than its here for. It was chill, and it worked, becuz people had common fuckin sense, and knew wat was ok to post and wat wasnt, and didnt need to be fuckin told every 2 seconds.
Nowadays, its like nobody understands shit unless you spell it out for them. At the way it is now, its either like this, or no thread at all, becuz there has been soooo much problems and so much controversy behind this thread, at one time some of the sr. staff members suggested that we completely close it forever and not even have it at all becuz it created too much problems. but me and lots of others defended it.
But, becuz of all that and the constant bullshit, people who dont comprehend simple ideas of wat is and aint cool to post in here without it bein outlined to the last detail, its all business like and strict. I dont like it like this either, I enjoyed the older threads esp. when I was still using and posting everyday and we would all talk to each other and share information without gettin out of line and everything was all good. But now, becuz so many ppl aint capable of doin that, we got to have strict rules that explicitly spells out wat is and aint allowed. People started postin inappropriate off topic shit becuz they seen others posting offtopic shit that WAS ok to post, and they couldnt tell the difference, so we had to make it be no off topic at all since ppl was not capable of tellin the difference. Its sad that it got to work for the lowest common denominator , but thats the way it is now if we want to still have this resource.
Just for the record, tho-The main rules is still all the same, and people only gets warnings becuz of violating those. No sourcing, no locations, and no prices have ALWAYS been rules of the thread, and people got warnings for violatin those since the beginning of the thread, too. its just that way less ppl ever broke the rules then becuz they had half a brain, but now there seems to be so many people that find this thread and manage to fuck up in every way within 4 posts, that you see all these warnings and shit. Im sorry u feel like that yobot, and usually a post like yours would get un approved ,but you a long time poster in this thread and I know you understand wat its about, Ima leave your post for everyone to see and reply in the thread becuz I am sure that alot of the "old schoolers" that was around since the very first version of this thread like me and u and many others, also feels the same way. Its sad to me that we cant have the same atmosphere we used to but its still important that the info gets out there becuz the main purpose of this thread always been harm reduction, and not the dopehead social, u know? I am really tryin to make it so we CAN keep this thread, even if it aint "fun", even if it aint for nothin else but to be able to keep the info out there and keep people safe. I hope you dont stop posting just becuz of that, becuz we have lost lots of our best posters since the last few versions of this thread for the same reason, and it sucks to see the people who actually know wat they are doing leave the thread-it just makes it that much easier for the ones who dont to take over...
To you and all the posters who been around since the beginning of the idea of a stamp thread--Please stick around and help improve this place instead of leave out of frustration. we need ppl like u to help keep this thread half way decent and maybe some of these newjacks can learn from u and make it better...
