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dopestats
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New Sponsor! DopeStats
#10755137 - 07/28/09 12:15 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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Hey all,
I'm relatively new to the forums. Although I have little number of posts, I have used shroomery for a long time and have referred many of my friends here. I wanted to extend the invitation to ask any questions and for me to give you answers for any of your concerns.
I started DopeStats early this year (2009) in an effort to raise drug awareness nationwide. Good, bad, drug prohibition, marijuana advocate, ... whichever way you decide to look at the task of raising drug use awareness it involves spreading information and the use of reliable resources. Ergo, DopeStats
I'm sure by now many of you have legitimate concerns about issues such as privacy and trust. Please read our privacy policy..
I say this because the nature of DopeStats covers a very controversial issue. I can't tell you how many forums ousted me as a member in fear of me being a conspiring agent of some sort. This is not the case! I am a 22 year old senior Computer Science student. I am grateful that a well established place like Shroomery.org did not dismiss this idea. Please follow all of Shroomery's guidelines when you post about DopeStats.
As you can tell, there is no way to "talk" or communicate via DopeStats. You may contact me via email or the private messaging system here on Shroomery, but not each other via DopeStats. There already exists places for this type of discussion like here, rollitup.org, bluelight.ru, and many other communities that discuss drug use.
The nature of the site is based around the idea that the numbers we call drug use statistics for a nation must be a collective effort of the people to raise awareness in their own communities.
I NEED YOUR HELP!!
..so fair this has been a one man show, and I've done what I can, but I'm missing some information. Could you guys post the standard measurement units (ex.- grams, mL, L) for ANY substances found on DopeStats that do not have those units? Some examples of these substances are 2c-e, Adrafinil, LSA, etc. Even if you see a substance on DopeStats that is reporting stats using non-standard units, please let me know. I want the units for each substance to be the units that you'd find if you were to come across these substances in a single dose form! No one needs to know the bulk units because these are used only when you talk about distributing substances, and DopeStats is not meant for that purpose.
Thanks! ..now lets get to work on that trust.
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radiantthought
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Re: New Sponsor! DopeStats [Re: dopestats]
#10755537 - 07/28/09 01:20 PM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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I saw the site up at the top last night and clicked on it. It's a very cool concept and with more input could be very useful. The only real problem I see is the potential for inaccurate information being added with no way to verify it, otherwise good show.
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dopestats
DopeStats Admin
Registered: 02/23/09
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Thanks radiantthought
This is true, anyone can just input fake statistics if they wanted to. My hope is that no one is willing to waste their time doing this. Regardless, I've implemented several mechanisms to try and avoid this. Some of these include:
-Max numTimes used is 5 (per form submission) -Capped the maximum price you can enter -Use of an image captcha to verify human
And every once in a while I will personally hand erase those entries that look like total bullshit.
I figure that by showing the statistics for each county instead of just reporting national stats, people will see numbers that they can relate to. And if enough people visit and take the surveys, then hopefully the statistics will converge to what the true vale should be...
Many things use this scheme to bring you accurate results. For example
-Google PageRank -StumbleUpon -Digg ...
all use the number of inbound links, or number of stumbles, or diggs to propel the most relevant information to the top. If enough people take the surveys, then the prices, number of uses and other stats will converge to some value which should be the most accurate.
If anything, I think it's better than forums all over the place that just post pages upon pages of prices.
-------------------- Mushroom prices Lookup or submit prices for over 300 substances across 3,140 U.S counties. All anonymous! Mushroom statistics
Edited by dopestats (07/28/09 01:56 PM)
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dopestats
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This actually brings up a good point!
Because of the way it is designed, it is meant for the drug user to take the survey each time they use a substance. So lets say you give stats for 2 months (1 stat for each day), then all of your statistics will keep the averages where they should be..
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Re: New Sponsor! DopeStats [Re: dopestats]
#10760326 - 07/29/09 07:26 AM (14 years, 6 months ago) |
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 Like the site
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