Silk Road forums

Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:45 pm

Title: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:45 pm
1.  You brought open competition to the black market!
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:47 pm
2. That open competition helped increase product quality.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:49 pm
3.  Unlike many bunk products that are available in the black market, SR's open competition drove the market towards honest product offers where what was being sold was what was being advertised - a major improvement over the pre-SR black market.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:56 pm
4.  The reputation system encouraged honesty among dealers.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:57 pm
5.  The reputation system encouraged good customer service from dealers.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 07:59 pm
Open competition increased supply.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:00 pm
Open competition expanded variety of products available.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:01 pm
Escrow protects buyers from scammer dealers.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: OzAlpha on October 03, 2013, 08:04 pm
And the thousands of users that lost a tonne of BTC's wo have now lost it is over simple mistakes by DPR.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:09 pm
Anonymity protects sellers from being robbed IRL (usually violently).
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:11 pm
Anonymity also protects buyers from being robbed in real life.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:12 pm
Scammers still exist, but they are easily outed thanks to feedback and the forums.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Cailieg on October 03, 2013, 08:13 pm
The open market brought products previously unavailable to certain regions into those regions.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:15 pm
Open competition kept downward pressure on price.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:16 pm
Delivery kept buyers safe from having to travel to purchase product, risking police pullover and bust.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:18 pm
Delivery by the govt's own postal service kept dealers safe from having to travel with product.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:20 pm
Delivery kept even lazy dealers from having to reveal their addresses to buyers.  (Lazy dealers are people who have IRL buyers come to their homes.)
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:23 pm
Delivery means no meeting clients/dealers in shady places like parking lots, alleys, clubs, or wherever other eyes, police, snitches can see.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 03, 2013, 08:24 pm
Taking a break from posting.  Now your turn!
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 04, 2013, 02:18 am
More harm reduction has come from the existence of the Silk Road than anything else in the history of the black market. 
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 04, 2013, 02:21 am
As a direct result of its existence, lives have been saved.  Thousands of real life drug deals never happened thanks to SR, meaning people did not get robbed, beaten, or murdered by unscrupulous people involved in bad deals.

Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 04, 2013, 02:25 am
That life that may have been saved could have been yours.  Whatever amount you lost in the SR takedown is trivial compared to the loss of your life.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 04, 2013, 02:29 am
The SR has saved people, maybe you, from being arrested and going to prison.  Had you been dealing IRL rather than here, your risks of incarceration would have been much higher.  SR may have kept you out of a jail cell.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: sliNgBlAdee on October 04, 2013, 04:06 am
it was the best site to find ketamine
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 12:18 am
SR increased product availability IRL.  Because anyone could buy product on SR, they could enter their local drug market and compete with established dealers, avoiding local supply chains entirely and bringing new product to market without it passing through local middlemen's hands.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 02:07 am
SR's bringing new dealers to local markets increased supply there, placing downward pressure on local prices.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 02:09 am
SR's bringing better quality product to dealers increased better quality product to street buyers. 
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 02:12 am
With necessity being the mother of invention, all kinds of neat new smuggling methods were devised by SR sellers!
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 02:14 am
SR empowered mid and low-level dealers to jump up the supply chain without having to "earn it" through local product gatekeepers.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 05, 2013, 02:19 am
The SR forum brought users and dealers together in a way that had been unseen.  More communication led to better reputation ratings, as buyers, who never would have known each other IRL, were able to share feedback.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 01:48 pm
Alright, I've run out of reasons.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 01:56 pm
Looks like there are now new forums. 
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 01:58 pm
Right when I'm in striking distance of the 50 post threshold, of course.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:02 pm
Message to police:  go find some real criminals. 
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:06 pm
You know, the ones that actually hurt people?
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:07 pm
Hint to cops:
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:10 pm
To find a real criminal that hurts people...
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:16 pm
look
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:20 pm
no
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:22 pm
further
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:29 pm
than
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:40 pm
the
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:43 pm
mirror.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:45 pm
See you all on the new forums.
Title: Re: Oh Silk Road, How I Loved Thee, Let Me Count The Ways
Post by: Deliveryman on October 09, 2013, 02:47 pm
Long live the Silk Road.