and thats exactly what newbies who post just asking for party info get encouraged to do…
Once they say where they are from, what music they like, what parties they previously have been to it becomes easier for others to trust and help them.
dunno how old you are but the fluffy vibe was how raves used to be in their “better” days and is still the overriding attitude in some areas. They were an escape from the shittier aspects of inner city life or boring rural areas with nothing to do, and an escape from the townie culture rather than an extension of it..
Some of us think “Manchester” was better than “Gunchester”…
there’s too much “tinfoil helmet” paranoia over “deep cover infiltrators” anyway, when they aren’t even needed to track events that ultimately lead to big noisy gatherings!
when it was tried back in the 90s all that happened is the Police just lost a lot of young detectives to the drugs culture as they found raves to be more fun than coppering….
Believe me, nobody I know appreciates ‘gunchester’, although that’s probably because we have to deal with it.
I’m not naieve, and it’s fairly obvious that the police simply don’t have the resources to pre-emptively search for parties. As you say, the noise is more than enough to alert them.
What I do object to is that after a party they can just browse to a few well-known sites and do a quick search to find out a whole bunch of information publicly viewable.
