Quote from: masterblaster on March 13, 2013, 12:44 amQuoteP.S. edit: I sound more like masterblaster than I mean to.Your user set just went up by one.LOL... clever, but in the interest of not starting an entire thread of misleading things I never promised to implement -- my SR client application doesn't include any SQL at all. The only databases it uses are trivial YAML files that store your preferences like what sounds you want played when you get a message, etc..I was just trying to make the point that unless somebody went and tried to write their own relational database software, a lot of the things that I read from the feature suggestions area would take a day to implement. Even doing it the proper, test-till-you're-so-bored-you-wanna-die way, I mean.So please don't d/l my program thinking you can do searches sorted by price with it because I wrote a SQL snippet, lol... it does do that, but the last version I tested enough to put up only does it for one page at a time. In other words, it's useless for that purpose still. Give me a day or two before you start bitching that I lied or something, bro :PQuote from: astor on March 13, 2013, 01:54 amQuote from: sourdieselman on March 13, 2013, 01:26 amHowever, I am been genuine when I encourage OP to open a black market place that is an improved version of Silkroad bc I bet that if someone opens such market place and gets it to become popular people will start to leave silkroad Possessing the technical knowledge to run a secure hidden service with advanced features is the easy part. Getting people to use it is the hard part. Silk Road owes a large part of its success to the media. It's 10 times as popular as BMR because Adrien Chen chose to write about SR instead of BMR, and many articles followed.Now SR benefits from the network effect. There may be better social networks than Facebook, but everybody goes to Facebook because that's where everybody is. Similarly, sellers want to sell on SR because they are exposed to the most buyers, and buyers want to buy on SR because it gives them the widest selection of drugs. How are you going to attract sellers to your new market if there are no buyers and vice versa?If you want your competing market to take off, you should create a bunch of fake listings and reviews, make it look really big, and contact some journalists. Get some free advertising through their moral outrage and link baiting. You *might* be able to bootstrap it to success. :) Your point is well taken, astor; perhaps I underestimate the power of word of mouth. But do you remember when MySpace was "the thing," and you barely ever heard anybody mention that Facebook business?That sure did change fast. I sure thought it did, anyway. It works both ways is all I'm saying.