[top]Membership categories
Any of the following privileges and restrictions may be changed in time, without prior notification.
[top]Mercury membership
Mercury membership is the last chance before eventually getting banned. Members who receive many negative reputation points will be automatically downgraded to mercury. If mercury members do not improve, they will get banned. Mercury members can only post in
Various drug related topics (Except chemistry) and in the main forums of the other languages forums. If, before becoming mercury, a member has posted in other forums of Drugs Forum, he or she can still post in those threads. Mercury members have 10 private messages storage.
Mercury members will get automatically upgraded again if their post quality increases and reputation is received. To prevent any more negative reputation coming in, the relevant posts should be reviewed and edited.
[top]Newbie membership
Everyone starts as Newbie after registration. Newbies have several restrictions which they can get rid of by getting upgraded to Silver membership or by donating to Drugs Forum. Newbies can not edit their posts, give out reputation, post in the
Drug related chemistry and extraction forum (except
Newbie Chemistry), and view
Improving Drugs Forum (and any other restricted forums). Newbies have 10 private messages storage. Newbies can not post blogs.
Most of these restrictions can be gotten rid of by donating or becoming a silver member. Donating newbies have the same features as palladium members and more.
[top]Silver membership
Silver is the standard level of membership on Drugs Forum. Newbies get upgraded to Silver automatically when they reach 5 reputation points. This is usually achieved through one or two informative posts. Silver members have 20 private messages storage.
Silver members can edit their posts, give out reputation, and attach files to posts, and view and post in all unrestricted forums (including Drug related chemistry and extraction) and
Improving Drugs Forum. Silver members can not access any of the restricted forums besides
Improving Drugs Forum.
Silver members can not post blogs.
[top]Titanium membership
Titanium is the first promotion up from Silver.
Titanium members are able to use the chat room during chat meetings, which will be announced.
Titanium members have the ability to edit and write in
Drugs-Wiki.
Titanium members can post polls.
To qualify for an update to Titanium membership, members must meet following requirements:
- Membership duration of at least 60 days
- Has posted in the last 60 days.
- At least 60 posts
- High reputation & Contribution Spectrum
- No recent warnings or infractions
Many Titanium members would easily reach Palladium membership, if they would rate posts.
[top]Palladium membership
Palladium members have 20 private messages storage.
Palladium members can post blogs.
Palladium members can create new groups.
To qualify for an update to Palladium membership, members must meet following requirements:
- Membership duration of at least 60 days
- Has posted in the last 60 days.
- High reputation & Contribution Spectrum
- Making use of the reputation system (giving out positive and negative points)
- No recent warnings or infractions
Before you reach Gold membership, you will reach Palladium membership. The qualifications are almost the same. The only difference is 150 quality posts for gold membership. Silver members are upgraded to palladium almost automatically when they meet the requirements. We review the posts of palladium members to see if they meet Gold standards.
[top]Gold membership
Gold members have all permissions that palladium members have and some more: Gold members have access to the Gold members and Sources forums, and the gold member file archive. Gold members have 30 private messages storage.
To qualify for an update to gold membership, members must meet following requirements:
- Membership duration of at least 60 days
- 150 or more quality posts
- High reputation & Contribution Spectrum
- Making use of the reputation system (giving out positive and negative points)
- No recent warnings or infractions
- Willingness to contribute to the Sources forum
Members are reviewed by staff. While donating does not affect being granted gold membership or not, staff gives a higher priority to donating members, so they will be reviewed faster and, if they meet the requirements, be upgraded to gold membership.
Before you reach Gold membership, you will reach Palladium membership. The qualifications are almost the same. The only difference is 150 quality posts for gold membership. Silver members are upgraded to palladium almost automatically when they meet the requirements. We review the posts of palladium members to see if they meet Gold standards.
[top]Iridium membership
Iridium members are members who met the requirements for gold membership but do not wish to contribute to the Sources forum. Iridium members have all privileges of gold members except access to the Sources forum. Iridium members have access to the Gold members forum and have 30 private messages storage.
Gold members who do not contribute to the Sources forum will be moved to iridium membership. Iridium members can apply for gold membership by contacting an administrator. Only gold members are eligible for an upgrade to platinum membership.
[top]Platinum membership
Platinum membership is the highest level of non-staff membership. The opinions of Platinum members are highly valued by the staff. Platinum members have moderator functions in the chat. Platinum members have access to the Platinum member forum and have 30 private messages storage. They can chat and even moderate the chat room.
Platinum membership is invitation only. However, there are certain requirements, that puts a member on the review list:
- Membership duration of at least 2 years.
- Has over 1.000 posts
- Is actively posting in the last 2 months.
- Has over 1.000 reputation points.
- Making use of the reputation system (giving out positive and negative points)
- Tags threads.
- No recent warnings or infractions.
- Reports posts.
- Contributes to the Sources forum.
- The member sets an example for others by carefully observing forum rules and protocol / conventions, and also helps other members follow this example by reminding them when they are slipping up or helping teach newer members the ropes.
- The member demonstrates they can maintain the calm, composed and respectable demeanor that one would expect "someone in highest level of non-staff membership" whose opinion is "highly valued by the staff" to have.
If these criteria are met, then the member will be on the applicants list. The member is then reviewed for platinum membership, by the staff.
Former Moderators become platinum members.
[top]Donating members
- All functionality that palladium member have.
- Donating members function: see members in thread 'real time' and see them replying. With this live function, the forum experience changes quite a bit.
- Animated avatar feature for donating members. Use bigger and animated clips as your avatar.
- Drugs-Wiki editing for donating members
- Donating members can post blogs.
- Personal Notepad for donating members
- See reputation comments on profiles
- Donating member Title:
You will be acknowledged as a funding member and receive the Donating member title.
- We will increase your Private Message storage limit to a smashing amount of 500 messages.
- You will be able to use message tracking and see whether your friend has read your message already and when.
- You will also be able to avoid to be tracked by denying all Private Message receipt requests.
- Invisible Mode:
Disappear completely from the eyes of other members. You will see them but they won't see you. Nobody will know that you entered the forum or what you are doing. Note that staff members can distinguish invisible and offline mode.
- Custom User title:
You will be able to change your user title to describe your pseudonym, character, mood, or orientation better. You can put there whatever you like as long as it's rule compliant. The user title is the title appears between username and membership level.
- (animated) images in your signature.
- Expanded posting rights:
Newbie or not, you can edit your posts, give reputation ratings. Post polls like gold members can.
- Fast review for Gold Membership and sources forums access:
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Although donating does not affect the decision on wether you can become gold member or not, it will help get your member status reviewed earlier. It usually takes quite a while to get reviewed, but donating members are at the top of the list. The higher the donation, the higher your rank will be.
- Expanded download/ upload rights. Your up/download limits are much larger than other members.
- Supporters, Sponsors and Benefactors are listed on our sponsors page. If you want to remain anonymous, then let me know.
- Forum wide various expanded functions and allowances.
- Newbies have all privileges of Silver membership.
- Donating increases your Contribution Spectrum level.
- More donating member functions are being worked on.
Donating affects your contribution spectrum level.
For a complete overview of our current staff, see:
View Forum Leaders.
[top]Co Moderators
Co-moderators moderate one or more forums. Often together with a moderator. Although Co-Moderators do not have all the functions of moderators, it is a very important and responsible position with the functionality to handle situations that need to be taken care of.
A Co-Moderator has the following tasks:
- To keep the section(s) free from breaches of the rules.
- To keep the board organized and free of misinformation and contentless posts.
- To answer unanswered topics and add information where needed.
- To stimulate and steer discussion.
- To expand and optimize the section(s) in every way.
With sections is meant; forums, image galleries, file sections, wiki's.
Current co-moderators:
Pondlife co-moderates the Law & Order forum
MrG co-moderates the GHB forum
Dickon co-moderates the Addiction & recovery forums
Ilsa co-moderates the Addiction & recovery forums and the Euphoric Body forums
ThirdEyeFloond co-moderates the file archive, dissociatives forums, chat, blog, groups & image gallery.
More commonly referred to as 'mods', moderators are usually responsible for one or more sections of the site. This mostly includes forums and/or subforums of Drugs Forum, the corresponding categories of the file archive, image gallery and
Drugs-Wiki.
They moderate their area(s) by watching out for rules breaches, steering and stimulating discussions, and settling conflicts.
Moderators also have to keep their area organized by merging threads on the same topic, closing threads, moving threads and posts, etc. Moderators have viewing access to all parts of Drugs Forum, but their forum, wiki, file archive and image gallery maintenance functions are restricted to the areas which they are responsible for.
To be considered for moderator, following things count: attitude (responsibility, helpfulness, respect, etc), knowledge (expertise is very welcome but not required) and frequency of forum visits. Experience as a moderator does help but is not a requirement. Moderators are welcomed on invitation only.
Applying to become a moderator will often result in a negative answer. Most moderators are invited by the administration. If you feel you have the necessary skills and knowledge and want to assist with a forum or section, then you can contact the administration and or the moderator of the section. Chances are that the moderator of the section will have duties on his/her list that you can help out with. Watching out for rule breaches and notifying staff through the report button helps a lot.
To view the listing of which moderator covers what please View Forum Leaders. In the case where the particular forum does not have coverage and you need help please contact an administrator for assistance.
Current Moderators:
Bajeda moderates the Ethnobotanicals section & the File Archive
Benga moderates the Cocaine & Ethno section
Jatelka moderates the Alcohol, LSD, Downers, various drugs sections & the File Archive
Shampoo moderates the Cannabis Section
Phungusheadmoderates the mushroom forums
[top]Super Moderators
Super moderators are moderators with a broad knowledge and sufficient amounts of time to spend on Drugs Forum. Their privileges are basically the same as those of moderators, but not restricted to certain subforums of Drugs Forum.
Current super moderators:
~lostgurl~ moderates About Drugs Forum, Recovery & Addiction, Drug Culture & the Multimedia Archive
Heretic.Ape. moderates Drug News & Drug Policy, Reform & Politics forums
Micklemouse moderates the
ecstasy forum
[top]Administrators
Administrators have unlimited access to all features and areas of Drugs Forum, including some administrative functions for which moderators are not responsible for.
Current administrators: Alfa, Sitbcknchill
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