@Marcus @Mr.Bravo @brutus79 @Voltrader
here are my thoughts on the SCOC- as a disclaimer if i repeat anything that's already been said the past, sorry that i didnt have time to read through hundreds of pages posts. also, i know i advocate educating new members as the #1 priority but until our culture changes where the majority of new members or lurkers are just looking for a source- we need to do the grunt work. we need to filter out the good from the bad sources. as we do this, hopefully new members see will what they should be doing and slowly we will see a culture change- just my hope.
anyways ill try my best to keep it short and go section by section:
1. pics and description
a. pictures of finished vials and powders, a substantial quantity as well so we know you're not just trying to sell 20-30 vials. but that you actually have a decent amount and you have invested
b. pictures of lab equipment IN ACTION. show us the filter working, show us pics of autoclave working, show us actual vials being made under a flow hood. it's all to easy to get pics from a uni and throw up a time stamp. show us the equipment working with a time stamp "i am fucking brewing steroids to sell"
c. descriptioon of your full process for test E. take us through the entire fucking process. there is no trade secret or secret way to do it, we all fucking know the methods. tell us exactly how you are doing it
2. communciation
a. secure email + provide public PGP key. needs to be verified by a member that you actually know how to fucking use PGP
3. full disclosure- simple question: where have you sourced before and where you are sourcing now. the board focuses too much on this sometimes with accusing sources of being previous sources. if we're asking the right questions this will become obvious in time. maybe not ASAP but immediately accusing sources of having previous handles is bullshit and not effective. shitty sources will be outed, as they always have.
4. testing
a. minimum sources MUST labmax all products, oils and powders
b. a proven attempt at acquiring shit like MS/HPLC/NMR. this board makes it seem like i can walk down the street and get all my shit tested at the local uni. that's not how it works at all. we need to be more realistic. what does this mean? sources that come here with zero attempt at further testing can fuck off, they obvi dont care about their product and just wanna sell. sources that a proven attempt- who have you tried to contact, what avenues have you attempted, what friends have you asked about testing? we need to be reasonable brothers- to ask these sources for these tests + the knowledge to interpret them is too much. instead what we want to know is "are these sources willing and actively trying and caring about their product". if so we can be more assured that when/if they get access to MS/HPLC/NMR they will act upon it.
5. references
a. stop this bullshit with not accepting reviews from other boards, esp reddit. all these boards we have the same goal, i mean who the fuck wants to get scammed? who the hell actually wants underdosed shit. we need to be more open to other boards, but be skeptic. what does that mean? it means if everyone from a certain board is sucking the dick of one source, we need to be skeptic. here is was astro, reddit it is topgear and rage, evo is domestic express. let's accept their reviews at face value but also always be wary!
b. no fucking grandfathering. all sources need to go through the SCOC. no one gets a free pass, if you're a good source you can easily answer the questions and get through the SCOC. any source who is avoiding the SCOC is to be questioned even more. anyone selling over PM or privately who reach out to others HAVE to go through the SCOC. what does that mean? if you're a private source who sells by word of mouth that's fine. bt if you're actively recruiting other buyers through PM, come out of the fucking shadows and go through this SCOC
c. only one thread of sources to push product- if at first attempt a source doesn't make it through the SCOC- needs to be requested to be deleted. come back and try again when your shit is up to date. we can't have these threads where the 1st 50 pages the source doesnt pass and then on page 52, 67,83, and 98 the source provides the information needed to pass. this all needs to be condensed on the first fucking post. new members arent going to be searching through hundreds of pages for the legitmacy of a source.
in the end it's all about the details as
@Dr JIM says "devil is in the details". good sources arent afraid of our questions. why? because they know they got nothing to fucking hide. answer all our questions and dont hide shit. on the flip side, let's approach sources with questioning but not aggression. aggression puts everyone on edge. we want he edge but we dont want to be know as a forum where everyone is shitting on everyone. brothers, we all want the same goal- good fucking gear. let's work together to find that- there may be sources out there that actually do have decent gear but we're running their asses off. as a result we are just gonna get all the shitty sources who backtalk and fight back and scam the shit outa us. these are just a few things off the top of my head