I fully agree about earning keep somewhere. I have been around for many years, not disrespecting anyone but I guarantee for longer than 85% of people in this thread. Im no young buck in this, by any means.
Earning keep is a must, and the "old school" source forums you still had to do the same. Like ive stated before, I have been off the forums for quite a while now, and realizing how much different it has became in a relatively short period of time. The source forums I was listed on however, was no " dick riding" the sources, I mean they got their praise but also got their asses handed to them if they made errors. The moderators of the old school forums were not allowed to purchase from the suppliers they moderated, and it was watched closely to keep an even playing field, and when a member had an issue, it had to be resolved in a timely manner between the mod, customer, and supplier.
Prime example..... Years ago, over at GH15, I had a batch of tren ace that oxidized, causing it to turn a bit cloudy. As many vets know, cloudy tren is not always a bad thing, it simply can mean the batch was not made with as much BB, and the tren turned a bit cloudy. I have customers who I formulate them in specific tren with a very low BB count and it clouds a bit, and it does not bother them, that is how they want it to keep BB count low. But nonetheless, the tren clouded a bit. An error on my end, sort of, but I had to completely pull the tren ace off of my list until moderators tested multiple new batches that I produced until they saw it fit to be sold again on that forum. This was the FIRST error I had made in well over a year there, and I was utterly punished for it. None of the members complained, actually all of them said it was no big issues whatsoever, but the mods still told me to pull it, and not sell it to ANY member there until the issue was resolved. This, being on a source forum, so maybe these days some source forums are different, but I beg to differ on all of them being in the suppliers best interest, by a long shot.