SJ is bad news, and is in my opinion beginning to have a severe negative effect on the scene.

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MY OPINION IS PARTYVIBES WHERE I GOTO HAVE A SENSIBLE CHAT ABOUT PARTY RELATED THINGS

SQUATJUICE, IS JUICE. GOSSIP. A LAUGH. PLACE TO MAKE FRIENDS IN THE SCENE AND LAUGH AT RANDOMERS CONVOSATIONS.

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I THINK IF SJ AND PV MERGED IT WOULD BE CHAOS. BUT SPERATELY THEY HAVE THEIR USES.

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SQUATJUICE, IS JUICE. GOSSIP. A LAUGH. PLACE TO MAKE FRIENDS IN THE SCENE AND LAUGH AT RANDOMERS CONVOSATIONS.

BLACKOUTAUDIO CATERS FOR ALL MY MUSICAL NEEDS.

I THINK IF SJ AND PV MERGED IT WOULD BE CHAOS. BUT SPERATELY THEY HAVE THEIR USES.

I used to use SJ loads until my work blocked it….

Although the board is alarming to outsiders, I wouldn’t say its that much of a threat to the scene – those people in society who do not accept raves are going to hate ravers and their culture no matter how “sensible” they may be on the internet, and there are plenty who will never change their views no matter how “fluffy” we may be..

ITs a bit like the difference between the Mirror and the Grauniad I suppose… a conservative is never going to accept the views in those papers, nor would a liberal accept those in the Torygraph and Daily Mail…

the only minor threats IMO are that sometimes amongst the gossip and arguments, pearls of info that cops/antis could use against us sometimes leak out; also the personal arguments could end up dissuading crews from working together in real life..

On any message board or net.community, there are (usually) real human beings at the end of each screen name, and I really can’t see how people can use each other as emotional punchbags on comedowns on a message board and expect friendships to last :confused:

since we know that the fuzz know, is it worth just going “fuck it, lets flyer, poster and promote these parties as if they are legal.”? i know i’m tempted, the scene has a massivly underused potential, no-one is doing parties that are what we’re capable of yet, even tho theyre phat…

there’s then a risk of getting done for illegal flyering (which will get you asbo’d etc and chance of being sued in civil courts now) – same would apply to licensed events but authorities would be even more pissed off when this gets done for unlicensed events.

Rave crews do make flyers, but pass them around in small quantities at trusted places (shared houses, squats etc).

Be careful with college and uni, as cops/ police support workers are also sometimes are getting an education there! (there are quite a few on day release or graduate trainees for CID in some institutions)

IMO there are actually plenty of ravers about to keep this scene going – I didn’t think the Ridgeway parties last year were short of numbers 🙂

14 years ago there wasn’t any internet to spread the word – and mobile phones were few and far between. Even so, parties still attracted thousands by word of mouth alone.

Also if people are encouraged to put a little effort into finding out about these events; it tends to keep them to those who actually believe in free parties and not the random chavs and townies who may well cause trouble….

IMO it’s innitialy finding out about free parties which is the difficult bit. If you have no idea how they work or that they even exist finding out that there are such free spirited party events can be hard.

once people have been once they normaly want to go more and more and as they meet people they find out about the different parties. the trick is gettin new vergin ravers to your events and impressing them.

thats one of the reasons we try and keep this place friendly and on a level where the site can still easily be accessed at colleges, libraries and offices – even if we can’t be as blatant about partylines on the net we can still teach people about how free parties work..