You?re free to discuss kratom vendors off site, as people will. But we don?t allow that discussion here because of the spam factor. For the same reasons we don?t allow specific discussions of how to doctor shop or where to buy certain substances.
We don’t allow discussion of sourcing any drugs (the one exception is referring BLers to SAMHSA’s buprenorphine treatment finder, but that less about sourcing as much as it’s helping people access SUd treatment). For better or worse that is a longstanding site policy. If anyone wants to discuss it with a mod or smod, send us a PM and we can talk.
No one is keeping anyone from discussing vendors off site, but we don?t allow it on here on the public boards. Not kratom, not heroin, not loperamide, nada. Only way we allow it is in very general terms (telling someone to find a kratom vendor online, or mentioning pharmacy chains are somewhere you can find loperamide, we simply don’t allow it).
Part of the reason is that it’s a rather slippery slope, and draws attention from the wrong people (dealers, DLE, etc). But in my mind the bigger reason is that we can’t tell if someone posting a link to a kratom vender gets kickbacks or is a vendor themselves. The source and solicit issue is really what’s at stake, and that rule is necessary to the mission and ongoing function of BL.