2-3 years ago when I was starting out my journey on TRT, this forum was teaming with people giving high quality advice and discussing experiences.
Was copletely invaluable at the time.
Feels like a bit of a ghost town in comparison now.
What happened?
T replacement section is lifeless, pharma/TRT section is lively.
Agreed. It’s weird man.
@systemlord even pharma is fairly dead. Mostly it’s just people who are chubsters or new lifters thinking steroids are a magic bullet. There are hardly any new members that are real lifters or provide thoughtful posts/insight. Thank goodness some of the OGs still hang around but it’s dwindling.
#2 is big one IMO. I think this forum is better geared toward TRT help than anabolics. Just my opinion.
I feel like the massive amount of drama with the presence of a certain militant-like high estrogen crowd turned a lot of people off to some of the popular trt forums as well.
The moderators here have also thrown alot of people out that IMO were excellent contributors such as @readalot
Dear Brother. I have seen your comments a few times, and I appreciate the time you take/took to support my content here.
I was in an awkward position after my readalot/tareload accounts were suspended; I had no way to access the posts I had spent many hours (countless hours) researching and crafting over the years. I could not download archives for my readalot and tareload profiles. I could not read my own posts lol.
So recently I started a loadtear profile to access my stuff and read the TRT / Pharma sections. It was suspended quickly as I made a post, and I should not have. Someone flagged my post for the Admin team (I guess there are some that don’t care for my posting on here haha).
So here we are on my 4th account so I can access my posts given the member only access for TRT/Pharma sections. I am posting this one time to explain the situation. I would appreciate it if the Mods do not suspend this account. @Tim_Patterson @Chris_Shugart
I have no intention to be consuming a “disproportionate amount of staff time” as was placed on my loadtear suspension summary. I will not argue with Mods or post more stuff. I just want access to my stuff and have granted a free nonexclusive license for my content to TNation in perpetuity as part of the member terms.
Sound fair? Please allow me to access my stuff as part of the license; I will be no bother.
I want you all to know every serious post I ever placed on here was researched to the best of my ability. I take harm reduction very seriously as well as getting the facts as straight as I can. In the end my maniacal search for the facts and harm reduction may have been my undoing along with bad humor I guess. Always grateful to @Tim_Patterson for addresssing the description on the Pharma forum.
I wish you all the best and hope we can reach a detente here. No more posts from me; just let me access my stuff to share elsewhere.
Thank you for your consideration.
And thank you to TNation for hosting and supporting this forum so people can post and share information with each other.
There were, and always are, very valid reasons for any person who has been previously suspended or banned.
Warnings are always issued, and it is up to the user to follow the guidelines that have been asked of them.
I don’t want to hash out all of the past details publically, but if you can abide by what you have posted, then everything will be fine.
With that said, you know what was asked of you previously, so please keep that in mind.
Very fine of you sir. Thanks as many of us appreciate @tearload
Thank you for your response. To clarify our written “agreement” …
I won’t post links to external forums regardless of how useful I think the info is
I will not engage with the member coach with whom I had a prior disagreement / dustup / whatever that was. I should have just left him alone and I understand.
I won’t consume any more of your time.
I believe that covers it. If not please correct me if you will.
My original request was to keep this account open so I could read and copy my old work. I mentioned above I would not post here further. But if you are fine with me occasionally posting as long as I don’t violate 1 through 3 then great (based on the way @blshaw interpreted your response). If you would like me to never post here again (as per my statement above) - then I will do that. Please clarify your wishes and I will stick to them.
I appreciate it. Have a nice evening.
As an outside observer, I’d like to politely petition you to give him his access back so he can see his old work properly.
He spent countless hours providing quality responses on a lot of topics.
Real shame to exclude him from his work that was aimed at being educational for others.
I think sometimes we can clash with other forum members and it doesnt necessarily bring the best out ofeach of us.
Can’t halm to give him access back can it- can always revoke it again if you choose?
Readalot- I appreciated a lot of the advice you gave me when I first started reading about TRT on here. I think your advice surrounding doseage and heart health was always a real balance to read when there were some suer aggresive posters (eg DB), advocating more more more protocals.
Thanks for all the time. I sincerely hope they grant you access back to your old account.
TikTok man. YouTube. InFlUeNcErS giving out AAS info to teens (and adults) for free on social media, or behind monthly paywalls (Chase, Steve), running TRT clinics (Derek), causing non-stop drama (Greg).
First it was the magazines. Then came the forums. Now comes social media.
The evolution of information dissemination
Dear Brother roadie, thank you for the kind words of support. I made this current account “tearload” so I could find, read and copy all my posts behind the member firewall. So I am all good. I can no longer edit or revise any of the readalot or tareload account posts but not really a big deal. I have what I need so I can share these posts and information elsewhere as necessary.
I don’t want to make any more work for the Admins so just keeping this proflle active is just fine for my needs to access my posts on TRT/Pharma.
Perhaps a fitting pennance for readalot and tareload to keep those accounts suspended. There were questions on why I was banned (second time after I was allowed to return) and to best ot my knowledge it was pretty simple.
So thanks again and I will await word whether I should post any more or stick with my “read only” plan Iaid out initially above.
EDIT: @Mod_Phoenix thank you for clarifying your position WRT to further posts to the Pharma/TRT sections of the forum. Understood and I appreciate your response. Posting here since I can’t message you.
EDIT: Take care everyone. I wish each of you the very best for your journey.
Personally I think these are the people who need the friendliest help the most, if they went straight to some sites they’d just get told yep go for it rather than advised to get bloodwork and maybe take less.
A lot of answers to these posts say they shouldn’t be doing it because of body fat, age, strength etc which may be true but is unlikely to stop someone, especially if said in a rude aggressive manor which will normally make people double down and just look elsewhere for justification.
Some of the posters state “they’re fed up answering these posts from people who have no business doing AAS” or similar statements.
Then don’t post, its not your job and no one will blame you if you don’t.
None of us should be doing this, even if you’re a Mr. Universe competitor, unless its legal in your country then making it because someone could get there natty is a strange reason.
I cant dance all night but when I take MDMA I can, should I stop taking MDMA until I can dance all night?
Well no, I shouldn’t do it at all as its illegal and potentially harmful (but way more fun than AAS…)
Please note, this is not aimed at @blshaw who is I think one of the best posters on the site.
As to people being banned, there’s a few that I think a shame and there a few that I would have banned ages ago. But its not my site and I don’t know what’s actually going on so don’t get too invested in it (if I see an old profile that says someone banned I will try and read through their old posts because they’re nearly always a hoot!)
And not sure if I’m missing something here but if someone is banned but wants access to the site can’t they just make a new profile using a new email but not post so they can see the site and no one will ever know?
Then there wouldn’t be any drama, or is that the point I’m missing?
No worries, man, no offense taken. While I was being blunt, I wasn’t calling out anyone specific as name calling isn’t helpful it’s hurtful. I agree with your sentiment which is why anytime one of these guys asks about anabolics, 90% of us steer them away. That may also be a reason why they leave and go to Reddit, Meso, or some other forum.
Truth, people don’t want to hear the truth. They want to come here and get internet approval to take steroids for whatever reason that is. However, steroids have consequences and honestly don’t work the way most people think they do. I spend my time trying to educate from my mistakes, but some guys are also competitors an/or ready to take that next step. They know the consequences and I wish there were more of those guys here. I don’t take steroids anymore as the “juice” isn’t with the squeeze. Pun intended.
I prefer the idea of TRT optimization which has worked well for me and many others. In fact I truly believe it’s more health beneficial than having low T versus any possible risks. You just have to be hypogonadal or age related decline to truly benefit.
Yes on the first question as I detailed above in two posts.
Drama? My intent was to not create drama. Brother @Dgordleis had asked or tagged me a couple of times and a question was asked by @roadie (title of thread) so I risked getting this 4th account suspended (by posting from it and outing it) in order to address the questions.
I agree it is a weird habit/character flaw(?) I have to always be trying to answer questions and historically spending way too much time trying to help others anonymously on the internet for free. But I learn too so it is not completely altruistic. Not fair to my family or my bank account with the opportunity cost but I hope I did make TNation a better place because of it (minus the dumb stuff that wasted the Mods time).
Anyway I appreciate the Mods and wanted to clear the air if I could.
Wow I am curious…
Well that’s a shame. So there is a appeal to authority more or less going on here?
Thinking of if KSman or DannyB were given admin powers on this forum. 