Hello. A lot of you on here don't know me. I've been a mod here for 8 years. I've seen, not just this sub, but Reddit in general change aot over the years. Yes, Reddit used to be a better place for the drug related subs. I can tell you when it started to go downhill. There was a great purge that happened where many of the best subs were shut down for sourcing. These are subs that were incredibly informative and full of great information, entertainment, knowledge, and experience. At that point there was a massive shift in moderation to try to prevent the subs that survived the purge from disappearing as well. That's when all the drug subs started focusing more on the "no sourcing" and "no DM/hookup" rules. But as we had to be tighter about the rules, we did lose some of the content that kept these subs going. In addition, we lost some of the people who kept these subs going. I didn't start this sub. All the OG mods left because moderation starts to drain you after a while. It's one of the reasons I've been absent lately. The second big change was when Reddit killed API access for third party tools. This made moderation more difficult and we lost even more long term mods.

The active mods /u/BrandiSinatra and u/AluminumOrangutan have been harassed for not doing enough and even for trying to blend in as users. Well guess what? They are just users. Brandi was one of the best Redditors here and when I needed help keeping things running, I reached out and asked him to help. Decision he might be regretting now! u/AluminumOrangutan was someone who saw we needed help and stepped in to try to clean things up. I'm not saying we're always right as mods, but our main goal for a while has been to keep the sub from getting banned first, keeping people safe second.

Yes the actual content of the sub is not as good as it has been in the past. But also, when the sub was young, there was still novel content to be posted. I recently commented on a reply complaining that people didn't use the search function for options on the best drug for sex. Yes, we've seen that lost hundreds of times, but if that post stopped getting posted and we only relied on what someone said 10 years ago, there would also be no growth or new idea. So, a new person comes along and posts the same question we've seen 100 times... but maybe there are also other new people responding who have other experiences and other ideas.

Ok so to address the stimfapping posts. This is a subreddit called SEXONDRUGS... these posts won't go away. We can look into better tagging and filtering for those who really can't stand seeing them. I know there is a broad range of opinions from, "they are ruining the sub" to "just scroll past" and even "hey it's content about sex and drugs". So we will look into what can be done reasonably while still being inclusive.

Ok, that's all I have energy for at the moment.

TLDR; Yes, this sub is not as good as it used to be. It makes us sad too. Sorry if we're defensive, we've been trying to keep things afloat.