Please don't invoke a Do Not Resuscitate order yet please. I love this thread and have learned from it. i still have a long ways to go. I use NETs all day and custards are the palette cleanser (along with menthol and occasional fruit).
The mixing of custard and tobacco is something I haven't tried so, I'll look forward to suggestions in that direction.
Also, I'm just dipping my toes into learning extraction. With this thread and the help I've been getting in the DIY extraction threads my road has widened but I think I see some sharp curves and bumps coming up.
This thread started to slow down when specialized threads on DIY NETs were formed. It changed the landscape entirely on NET specific threads. Some of the major contributors to this thread became more active on those sub-threads.
I think creating a specific thread for DIY NETs was done because it was blossoming at the time and this thread was actually very busy and many users couldn't benefit from the discussion of DIY.
Unfortunately, it seems that the dispersion of NET discussion on two or more threads has caused all of them to drop significantly in cohesion. There just isn't enough people to occupy two or three NET threads.
The slowdown in activity is not a reflection on a decreasing market for NETs. There will always be a market and an interest in NETs because of its gateway role for smokers coming into ecigs. If anything, the NET market is growing as evidenced by some boutique and high end vendors such as Black Note, Real Extracts and others. This thread should actually be thriving.
I think they should merge the threads and create one all purpose NET thread for both retail and DIY Nets. Retail NET discussion fertilized DIY discussion and vice versa. People could learn about tobaccos and the process of making NETs by discussing DIY and in turn, people could gain something from knowing about various vendors and the kinds of tobaccos in each product. Once DIY went it's own way it created a kind of vacuum in here. The big enthusiasts went the way of DIY and what happened was the threads with DIY were full of hard hitting 'pros' who crafted their art and this thread was left with beginners and newbies. The interaction of veteran pros and beginners was what lit the fuse of discussion in here.
For beginners looking for a thread to discuss NETs they find themselves at a predicament. If they come here, it's too quiet to keep them interested and if they go to a DIY thread the discussion is technical and advance and it's a bit over their head.
The politics started to get a bit weighty in here as well where some participants interpreted this threads role to be only about the discussion of NETs so discussion on artibaccos, ahlusion, TINOs and tobacco absolute products were warded off. One avid newcomer spoke about, I think n-joys pure tobacco and at least 2 people chastised him about discussing a product that may or may not be a NET about 6 months ago. Clamping down on off topic discussion didn't help at all.
PS - has anyone heard from Billherst lately?
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