i use it to find pictures of me Gurning and looking a mess after i have been out clubbing (also handy to jog your memory of the night)

The Chat thing is poooooooooo 😉

I stumbled accorss a couple of local ones on there, but getting any info was well impossible! They were helpfull to a point then they went silent on the info :hopeless:

it is good for that – and a lot of my friends are also there, as well as a Partyvibe group.

but we have to work together, protect each other and the party scene –

I know for a fact that the admins of DSI and a lot of the promoters who use the site (some of whom I’ve met over the last year) don’t like too much discussion about blatant drug use nor of illegal parties, and the moderation is a bit harsher than on PartyVibe.

I can wholly understand this as DSI is run in a totally different way to here.

Each group/sub forum is often linked to a set of promoters and a venue and you can search by region (worldwide!) which is what makes it really handy for finding licensed events and other networking.

However, if someone says “yeah I went to ***** rave at ***** venue and I scored and took bare pills and the bouncers didn’t notice anything” its extremely easy for a cop to find the message, print it out and show it to the Licensing committee for that venue. Thats how venues get busted for drugs and closed down.

if someone puts a message about an illegal party on a legal events group, the feds put two and two together and make 300 – again a legal event can be subject to more surveillance because of this.

This applies to all rave forums though TBH, we always need to think how our message comes across even to “non-participants”. We may feel we have “free speech”, but it can be used to trap us as well.