Comment · Thu, September 18, 2014 · Ceretropic
Something is wrong with this sub
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rondeline · 47 points
You guys need to get organized.
So far as I can tell, this is mostly a collection of random experimenters, willing to try odd compounds and kind of report back claims of efficacy. To the average noobe, this is a little better than asking the random drunk guy at the bar that happens to be just knowledgeable enough about nootropics to sound authoritative...mostly because no one else is knowledgeable enough to refute BS claims from said drunk guy.
Yes, we need to do our own research. But what about all the research (presumably you have done it yourselves right?) that's sitting haphazardly in everyone's collective brains?
What use is it there if there is no consensus as to what really works vs what some of you think really works, vs what's buried in unreadable abstracts in pub med?
Yes, I'm being slightly provocative. My question boils down to what's the process towards consensus building?
It would be pretty fucking cool if /r/nootropics started behaving more like /r/askscience in MHO.
EDIT: Wow, I didn't expect so many responses. I've gotten some pretty tough pushback and understandably so since admittedly I kind of asked for it. I realize that perhaps I poked the su…
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u/MisterYouAreSoDumb · Ceretropic
I don't think people realize how much I do here, just because I want to help people. I had 60 messages today, on all manner of things. Some were about methylation. Some were about Parkinson's. Some were about helping with their stacks. Some were about weird effects people were getting. Some we depressed people wanting to talk to me. Some were about testing vendor's products. And now I am some sort of fucking sell out celebrity? Bunch of fucking children around here now.
Do people think I get some sort of god complex by all this? It fucking tires me out! I am completely overwhelmed most days, and on the edge of losing control. The amount of pressure I am under is indescribable. I don't tell people about it, because that is just not how I work. But I am fucking spent, man. I spend hours and hours every day, getting people full studies, analyzing things, explaining things, and helping however I can. This post just put me over the fucking edge.
A subreddit about advancing our understanding of how to enhance our cognition, and people are complaining that we are advancing... Blows my fucking mind...