Dom_sufc wrote:
lol at this thread.
No wonder you made registering a must, stops people smamming asking for parties all the time :laugh_at:
Also, some comments in this thread looked welllllll fishy.
nah registering only was more to stop trolls and abusive people
back then (only 4-6 years ago!) it was a different climate
you once could post the entire partyline and even a rough region on here
people could be given party info on their first newbie post
the rave would go ahead and the cops would do 100% of jack shit
and you could post photos of the rig, name the crews, say how good the party was both on here and on SJ (which was actually a far friendlier place back then!)
it was only around 2004 the cops started half heartedly getting info from the forums but they stepped it up when everyone started boasting about stuff like vandalism/anti social behaviour (i.e putting up pictures of smashed buildings and human shit in odd places for jokes)
so people got less happy to give out info hence threads like this and (sadly) it was when the feds clamped down crews turned on one another and the rivalry between forums exacerbated – rather than fight babylon we fought each other.
thats why I may often sound “pessimistic”. Younger ravers aren’t often fully aware just how much we have lost in barely 5 years.
That said, I think half the youths at the start of the thread did find their parties in the end, either through here or SJ, proper caned it for a year or two and then burned out and never went raving again. They didn’t go mad or get rehab though, most just are now in work, college or are parents but they no longer support the party scene they once loved.
incidentally since moving here I did ask why younger people from East Anglia seemed so happy to put up their mobile numbers on a public forum,which I thought was a big security risk.
Turned out that the reason was fairly simple – many had more than one phone or (in the case of girls) were used to dealing with random callers or even stalkers anyway as lads what want to get with them are stubborn and persistent or if rejected often put their phone number on line anyway or on toilet walls (like middle school tactics FFS)
but often internet access and computers was shared with parents and siblings so they couldn’t go on line as much (also many parts of East Anglia did not have broadband until a couple of years ago!)
