I I came here for the info but stayed for the organization. Personally I have a hard time dealing with stupid pointless threads and no offense but it appears more so in cannabis related forums. Sure junkies have AiC but few times do i go onto something about opiates and just see some unheard of youtube video with someone who thinks hes cool because he talks about marijuana in raps or something equally as pointless. Like sure on a social discussion or in the proper place why not but on an information forum to be like "check dis out!" no sorry i will not.
I have tried looking at other forums but this one seems to be the best most organized and enforced one, it keeps it easy to read and makes its members more intelligent by default. Sure you cant post "my pet (whatever)" in a huge pointless stream of words that does nothing to shield you from anything aside from getting your question answered.
I too spent years lurking before i posted and when i posted it was a stupid question about freebasing adderal and i got flamed, yet as i should because it was a stupid question. I didnt take it personally because this is the internet and look at me now, I rule over you guys! well not you guys but some guys.
I find substance specific forums to be ok, provided they arent about cannabis it just attracts an underage and less informed crowd, which is great we all start somewhere but if i want info i dont want to weed (pun) out the retards and pointless answers only to find one sentence that kind of helps. \
And if you think people here are bad i belong to some chemistry forums as well, you should see how know it all scientists talk, you need to be bullet proof because scientists are always right and dont mind belittling you at times. I think that sort of dynamic applies everywhere and if you cant take getting called a retarded fool by someone behind a keyboard then you shouldnt be online