If stories like that stay about, it'll drive a lot of people away from HN.[Citation needed]. If a lot of low-quality "stories" like this stay about, then maybe. But the greater danger is attracting trolls / low-caliber people, not losing the current people. The current people are here to stay.
There's obviously a lot of people who are 'pro drugs', and we've already had more than enough marijuana stories.
This is neither. I was specifically trying to be scientific about this. Just because I am dropping acid once does not make me pro-drug. I have seen the harm that uncontrolled use of recreational drugs can cause. I am also agnostic to the whole debate surrounding drug use. All I care about is the experience. Also, thoughtless labels like "pro-drug" and "anti-drug" simply hinder progress. The world is not black or white.
In terms of actual interestingness, I'm sure anyone who is curious can search on google for first hand accounts of what being on drugs does/feels like.
That was not what my post was about, which you would know had you actually read and understood it. This was supposed to be an opportunity for people to have an interactive experience. Sure, if they had a specific question for me, I could answer it thoroughly. But more importantly, if they had something they wanted me to do, I could probably just do it and report back to them what it was like.
I also find it quite morbid. In the same way I would had the OP had expressed a curiosity to know how it feels to cut off his leg.
First off, one definition of morbid is, "ghoulish: suggesting the horror of death and decay; 'morbid details'". Taking one dose of acid once is certainly not going to cause long-term detrimental effects along the lines of death or decay!
(I'm not offended, and I don't think most people who flagged it are. I just don't think it's a good post for a site like this).
Once again though, be useful to see on each article how many people flagged it.
Why don't you feel that this was a decently creative, intellectually interesting post? Because isn't that what this site is about, to be intellectually satisfying? As I have mentioned, I put a good amount of effort into this, so a comment such as "well, my personal opinion is that I don't think this is very good" is totally not useful in any way. Provide reasons, man.
Lastly, on a personal note, why did you have to keep trying to destroy the one thing I thought I could contribute in the last couple months? Judging by the negative karma count of most of your comments in this thread, your views are not shared among your peers. What you are doing is generating noise. You are basically acting trollish. Simply stating your opinions is rather useless, don't you think? Perhaps you don't back up what you say because you can't, because it's my own body on the line, not yours. As far as I can tell, you have nothing more substantial than a "drugs are bad" attitude. Which is basically a witch-hunt attitude.
If you have any shred of respect for me or for my contributions to the site over the years, you'll just stop talking about this, because at this point, the damn thread is dead already, so anything further you have to say on the topic would just be an emotional act, whether that be to insult me personally or to just "get something off your chest", shall we say. It saddens me that you put so little effort into communicating your thoughts, even when I put so much effort into communicating mine. I would expect that kind of thing from a new member, but the worst part is that you've been here since the beginning. Maybe you're just having a bad day. Who knows.
And no, we don't need to see how many people have flagged an article, because that would cause people to focus on the 'meta' aspect of the site; that is, instead of aggregating cool content, people would be whining about why the current content doesn't satisfy their oh-so-high standards. Which is what you are doing. Which I specifically asked you not to do in the second paragraph of this thread. "Please don't make a meta-comment, just use the flag feature, and if it gets killed, then that's the end of it." But no, you had something important to say. Just had to keep saying all of those important things, even after they kept getting downmodded, right? Whatever. I just wish you hadn't let your personal vendetta against something you don't agree with contribute to ruining my one recent act of creativity here.