Party Vibe

just read that it was busted – with confiscations (although the cops just removed vital parts of rigs and a few cabs rather than an entire stack)

http://www.psy-forum.co.uk/psyforum_vb/showthread.php?t=28324&page=38&pp=10

it seems also that the zero-tolerance policies in other areas are driving more and more crews (including out of area crews) into the same spaces with internal conflict and more disruption to locals..

this is a dilemma – there are lots of promoters, and no agreed policy amongst them as to whether partylines are public or not.

but when I first became a mod on this board about 3 years ago (having been a regular contributor for even longer), there was less hostile action against parties and partylines were regularly posted; we even had a page full of numbers for London crews for many years.

Its only fairly recently that some crews have asked for partylines to be classed as restricted info; and even then others are OK with them being posted.

Along with the other mods I have to strike a balance between security and censorship. I already removed part of a post where the actual target county was discussed… and had someone from LGP contacted us and said “remove the partyline number” we would have done so straight away – however other crews publicise theres so in the first instance I have no idea whether this was “allowed” or not!

– but there’s still the onus on individual users not to compromise security; as there are times when the mods are not always available immediately (we have social lives as well!)

usually whinging locals are the main source of info to cops about where a party is.

There do seem to be in the UK lots of rich loners who buy big houses in the middle of fucking nowhere, presumably to hide from all the people they have trodden down as they climbed up the social ladder.. just the sort of people who shit themselves if they see more than the usual ramblers/dog walkers going down the paths near their houses and go squealing to the old bill.

OTOH phone numbers do provide another titbit of intelligence. the cops could easily get a RIP warrant and check who has called which number etc (this is fairly simple for a senior cop to get hold of, although listening to voice comms is more difficult and requires a further warrant)