The Road Ahead

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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Moving on from this latest series of problems, I hope we can grow stronger together and even when we are down in the gutter, we can as we have recently pull ourselves up and get on with what we do best. There is no challenge too great we cannot take on and sometimes we must make sacrifices to overcome such challenges, but we will get there eventually. Many of you have thanked me for the resolution of the recent problems, but the thanks must also go to the moderators who stick around even when I am hard to reach, to my fellow administrators who face the same challenges I do, for the other staff who never publicly come about and also the vendors who have in the past few days carried on sending our shipments using the secretive vendor link which allowed them access even when the public site was down. Ultimately we are all part of the team and everyone has a role to play, whether that is clear to them or not and as we now move on to whatever challenge the world will throw at us next, I would like to thank everyone in this community who stood firm in the torrents and chaos of our time.

One day in the future, people will look back at all of us and remember many of us were locked away or paid great personal sacrifice for us to take this stand. Through those times of hardship however, nothing brought us down for long and it only strengthened our resolve to fight on harder and with more vigor than ever before.

Dread Pirate Roberts
12/13/13
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[Inigo]

My hat's off to you captain. You have done a mighty fine job at the helm of this ship so far. We're lucky to have you. Keep it up.

[chimints630]

Thank you DPR... You have worked tirelessly and gave them hell. I commend you for the work you do for all of us. Cheers!

[nurseJackie]

Thanks for the hard work DPR!  I trust this site and even though I am waiting to be a vendor, I already have more faith in the admins of this site than any other =)

[wallettwosixty]

Thank you capt. you are the best.

[Whatthefuck420]

Like you said im very thankful for your staff and their HARD WORK thanks y'all !!!   Secret site for vendors good idea man.

[TheRealBossCaliBud]

Back to the grind!

[theroad101]

tip of the hat mi lady 

[Anything You Need]

Your a boss DRP thanks you so much i am very proud to be a part of this revolution with all my brothers/sisters nothing will ever kill this beautiful idea Peace and Love And a huge Thanks to your team

[jetagetomorrow]

don't know why I haven't positive karma'd you yet, but the deed has now been done!

[DoctorClu]

Cheers, mate.

[GermanShop]

On the one hand, i'm very depressed that the vendor-registrations are still closed because i (and my team) sit on literally kilos of speed and we cannot sell them because we just have a seller account on pandora, but we don't trust that site. But on the other hand, it makes me happy to see that you're not interested in getting as much money into the escrow system as possible by letting everyone register as a seller. That shows that you're not interested in "pulling the sheep".

Thank you for your work.

[blueberry43]

DPR, thank you for all your work.

thank you to all the mods as well.

keep it up...we are a strong community.

[alwaysitchy]

Thanks for the hard work DPR.

This truly is an important era for people like us.

I look forward to riding this ship with everyone else; though we face rough seas ahead, paradise is laying in wait for us.

[nurseJackie]

DPR, thank you for all your work.

thank you to all the mods as well.

keep it up...we are a strong community.

I think you summed up the difference between SR and other sites.  We are a community with common values for the most part that stands together and behind mods and admins, while so far other sites have just strung users along dragging them down.  I am proud to stand for this site and what it is and stands for, to watch the meek panic and go to other sites and get ripped,and to wait and be a vendor here when the time comes!

[Green.Machine]

*taps foot*

[blueberry43]

DPR, thank you for all your work.

thank you to all the mods as well.

keep it up...we are a strong community.

I think you summed up the difference between SR and other sites.  We are a community with common values for the most part that stands together and behind mods and admins, while so far other sites have just strung users along dragging them down.  I am proud to stand for this site and what it is and stands for, to watch the meek panic and go to other sites and get ripped,and to wait and be a vendor here when the time comes!

it truly is a great community, and revolution...i have tried other marketplaces for small periods of time, but this is the only market i use now. and the only one i've ever been proud to use!

[Navudenas]

This is why I love this place! Dread Pirate Robert, I am Honored to call you my Captain!
You have given me a place to safely call home. I will be here through thick and thin, Good and bad, ups and downs. Helping where I can, doing what I can. Reporting suspicious vending practices, bugs, odd shit, helping New Members as much as I can.

[Sir William Wonka]

Thanks for taking the helm Bob.  You have done quite a nice job thus far.

[Green.Machine]

PS  - Site is still broked.

Maybe you forgot to load the internet database cookies? Perhaps the oven was not pre-heated enough....

[letni]

DPR = fuckin' beauty, you have all my support dude

[DrawkwarD]

DPR, thank you for all your work.

thank you to all the mods as well.

keep it up...we are a strong community.

I think you summed up the difference between SR and other sites.  We are a community with common values for the most part that stands together and behind mods and admins, while so far other sites have just strung users along dragging them down.  I am proud to stand for this site and what it is and stands for, to watch the meek panic and go to other sites and get ripped,and to wait and be a vendor here when the time comes!

Exactly why I am choosing to vend here exclusively

[Quixote]

This is probably just something nagging me a little because I'm exhausted, but can the varying error messages stop being [relayed] to "the [C]aptain"? How about "the crew"?

[revolution]

thank you cap

[sillywabbit21]

DPR and staff- Sometimes I'm just overwhelmed with tears of joy at how a group of freedom fighters bonded and worked to create ( ANd REBUILD ) this
amazing market. To me, it's more than just a drug market: It's a community of enlightened people who have
come together and to celebrate our values and enjoy in using the sacred gifts of the earth and human minds to explore the depths of the human psyche -or just party hardy,haha. The genie is out of the bottle now, we will have our freedom ,no matter the cost.
LSD and SR providing the means to get it has really changed my life. The very existence of SR has been an integral part of the process of bringing me to LSD and my spiritual awakening.
THANK YOU Captain DPR, THANK YOU STAFF, THANK YOU VENDORS, THANK YOU TO ALL MY FRIENDS ON SR WITH WHOM I'VE BUILT FRIENDSHIPS <3 <3 <3
Love and Light!

[flwrchlds9]

Make them walk the plank!

[nurseJackie]

This is probably just something nagging me a little because I'm exhausted, but can the varying error messages stop being [relayed] to "the [C]aptain"? How about "the crew"?

lol...I am sure this would be very easy to do, but is also low on the "to do"list.  I am guessing priorities are:

1. DDOS attack: keeping online, dealing with, defense/offense, etc.
2. Preparing site for growth, developing features and resolution center, accepting new vendors, basically full dvelopment
3. Once site is developed and has grown then just maintainance, the big dog always has haters!

[CaptainWhiteBeard]

Good work Bob!

[MissX]

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up--for you the flag is flung--for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths--for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;

Thank you all xx

[ForeverStrung]

Thank you all for hard work

[spaceshit]

Thanks to all the mods and admins, with you we wouldn't be here!

[jimmybroof]

Thank you for your hard work!

Hope this site is around for many years to come 

[Public Enemy #1]

And so the metamorphosis is complete. Now we must feed and grow as we head towards the next stage of evolution.

My personal congratulations and eternal thanks to DPR, the mods, and all of those on the road.

And a special thank you to the FBI, the NCA and law enforcement agencies and law makers all over the world for giving us the strength and motivation to carry on.

Now let's go get some!

[StringerBell]

Good read!

Much love to everyone! The Captain, the crew, mods and the lovely community!

[DreadPirateMushroom]

DPR and staff- Sometimes I'm just overwhelmed with tears of joy at how a group of freedom fighters bonded and worked to create ( ANd REBUILD ) this
amazing market. To me, it's more than just a drug market: It's a community of enlightened people who have
come together and to celebrate our values and enjoy in using the sacred gifts of the earth and human minds to explore the depths of the human psyche -or just party hardy,haha. The genie is out of the bottle now, we will have our freedom ,no matter the cost.
LSD and SR providing the means to get it has really changed my life. The very existence of SR has been an integral part of the process of bringing me to LSD and my spiritual awakening.
THANK YOU Captain DPR, THANK YOU STAFF, THANK YOU VENDORS, THANK YOU TO ALL MY FRIENDS ON SR WITH WHOM I'VE BUILT FRIENDSHIPS <3 <3 <3
Love and Light!

Fuckin' A. My sentiments exactly. +1

Yeah, the team really do deserve the highest of praise and I'm so grateful that they're working their guts out to resolve all of these difficulties. For me too, the original SR's ability to connect me to psychedelics has completely changed my life. As you basically said, Silk Road represents both an evolution in freedom and human consciousness. We're going to be criticised and denounced, because we live in an ignorant world. But, the way I see it, the freedom that the deepweb gives us represents our potential as human beings to transcend the small-minded limitations of culture, to explore our minds, and to really test the limitations of what we are capable of, either as a society or as a counter-culture. Simply put, it's all about exploring new ideas and seeing how far the innovations of the collective power of our minds and our visions can take us.

To the people with whom this message resonates, many of them will feel alienated from the rest of society. I know I do sometimes. It doesn't matter though, because, in the words of Terence McKenna "the cost of sanity, in this society, is a certain level of alienation". The key is to 'find the others' and to build community as much as possible. A community of people who are like-minded but also able to be skeptical of themselves and constructively criticise each other's ideas.

Anyway, enough of the pseudo-hippy ranting, big thanks to Bob and the team! You are greatly loved!

Tu ne cede malis, sed contra audentior ito.

[43percenter]

DPR and the gang you are all heroes........let's push this thing forward and make it work.   So glad to be a part of this community.   

[WeeAxSR]

Hey DPR thanks again for keeping up the hard work & thanks must also go to the moderators & administrators  for the resolution of the recent problems, i love this community & am glad to be a part of it, long may it last, its not as if we are harming anyone is it.

Cheers again
WA

[Dr Robotnik]

United We Stand!!!

[ProEvo]

Don't make Bob angry, you won't like him when he's angry!

Now lets some weed mothafucka!

 

[Neurokid]

Just got my 50 posts to be allowed to reply loool but have been following this thread for a long time.

Thanks to the team behind the SR keep up the good work, of course I am frustrated that the site will not let me in I have just transferred my coins over and could see them in my account but got error when I went to go shopping but at the end of the day this is not eBay or Amazon and so we need to be patient and trust in the people at the top to get what needs doing done as soon as possible.

Keep up the work guys. Fuck the haters!

[Dr,Manhattan]

The road ahead is still very much closed for me,cant access it at all

[minimoogg]

you are the best!

[Grasjunge]

Bob and admins, firstly thank you for your historical work. Now, some info from Europe: It is right now 1pm in Central Europe, supposedly that means it is about 7am in New York City. And the site is down but hard. 10+ attempts to get to the login page and just 2 times success in reaching the "captain at work please stand by" pages I have seen so far. Something up again or just doing maintenance when the US is still sleeping or just waking up?
Cheers!

[DOSEO]

I never recieved a secret vendor link?



+DOSEO

[mastergrow]

is the site menna be up and running?
completely offline for me.

[Synergy]

No one ever said it was going to be easy, hoping for some clean air and smooth sailing soon.

[McRAD]

Shits Weak

Goodnight_Mcrad!

[worth-strut]

And so the metamorphosis is complete. Now we must feed and grow as we head towards the next stage of evolution.

My personal congratulations and eternal thanks to DPR, the mods, and all of those on the road.

And a special thank you to the FBI, the NCA and law enforcement agencies and law makers all over the world for giving us the strength and motivation to carry on.

Now let's go get some!

everything he said

[Hiniguel]

I never recieved a secret vendor link?



+DOSEO

Doesn't seem to work anymore anyway, mate.

[anontoker]

I am just going go ahead and post my disclaimer here:

I am not a team member of SR 2.0.
I am not on the payroll.
DPR and the Team have given me no reason to trust them, nor have I seen any documented reason not to trust them.
I do enjoy the company of many of the longstanding members here.
If that makes me an ass kisser, then fuck you! *Kisses an ass*
I don't recommend anyone use try to use the site until after the Christmas shutdown unless you have business there. This may allow those who do to get their business finished.

FYI: Whomever is giving me negative karma, you can go jump on a donkey's cock, and ride that bitch like you stole it. It's not fuckin' easy posting any kind of supportive post for the team. Fuck you naysayers.