I have no problem with people doing what is considered "cloud chasing". What I have a problem with is people not knowing what they're doing, not reading or understanding Ohm's Law, not understanding the safe limits of their battery, and having no consideration to the safety of themselves or others.
To give an example, I was at an event yesterday at my local shop, and was going to enter into a cloud competition in the "Anything Goes" category. I have a custom built parallel 26650 box that had a great build on it, in the 0.14 ohm range, that was producing rather well. Along comes a kid, ready to enter in the "Tube Mod" category with an aluminum Manhattan clone and a Mutation X v2 with a 0.04 ohm nichrome build. As he's sitting there at my table, he said that he had to set his mod down after each draw because it was too hot. I, as well as others, tried to explain that he built way beyond the safe limits, and was in the insane group. He looked at me like a deer in the headlights of a truck when I tried to explain the limits of his battery. That was when I withdrew from the competition and left. The chances of him blowing his mod up and injuring himself or others didn't seem to bother him much...just so long as he beat someone else. It's idiots like him that gives vaping a bad name.
My daily vape is one of my two Sigelei 150 boxes with either a 0.4 ohm kanthal build in a Troll, or my Starre tank. Both produce clouds larger than what were seen in competitions this time last year, and are much, much safer than those that are pushing the limits today.
