Not necessarily. My company's forum is busier than ever, both in terms of message traffic and new members joining, but that forum is all about a highly specialized product that requires serious information to use, and places like FB and Instagram are not serious sources of information.
Which means that people no longer need a serious source of information to find an effective vape.
Yep.
I'm the admin of a forum that is down to at best four active members (but mostly two, including me). I pay to keep the thing going because it would pain me so to let it go. I have visions of being the only one there, at which point I think I'll open multiple accounts and start arguing with myself in earnest.
I have to respectfully disagree with part of that. I wasnt around when you had the byuer/seller thing set up the way you described if nor did i get to witness the ripoffs and gouging but my experience with human nature, i think if you did that again, i would be the same if not worse. Probably worse. And also, i stated earlier that i didnt feel there was much more for me to learn about vaping here. I dont claim to know all about vaping, didnt mean it to sound that way at all. But i do think i know all i need to know, i being the key word. I can build safely on a mech, i can make my own juice. Im fairly informed on batteries and battery maintenence. Ive come to this point in vaping with much and grateful thanks to this forum and a handful of members (you know who you areWe had HUGE ripoff/gouging problems between sellers and buyers...the Verification System was created by Members that wanted to continue having a Classified section.
...fyi...j0ker had other forums contact him for help setting theirs up in a similar fashion...
j0ker hasn't been able to be around in forever...also his system permissions had been cut off.
I would like to remove the Verification process and give it a shot to see how people behave these days...maybe something like being a Member for 60 days and 100 (non spammed) posts to have access.
I think most have finally got the idea that ripping someone off and price gouging is a no-no.
Our Classifieds are also a strict Not for Profit - and I thoroughly approve of that - it's to get rid of things you no longer want and give someone else an opportunity to try it that perhaps couldn't afford the retail price.
But...that all takes the Big Cheese to approve and someone to modify the system to set it up.
And - let's not hijack this to a Classified Forum discussion.
Just know that it's something that I would go for
). I work in customer service and helping other people solve their problems is what i do. I try to give back to the forum when new folks come in but there is a limit, just as in customer service work, to how much help you can actually give. But ill stick around, no plans on quittin the forum, if just to see what happens next and being the self proclaimed resident grouch, bite the heads off the occasional trolls.
In the 40 minutes between those messages, in the middle of the freakin' night?
Yes, really!
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Imma tryin !
I am not alone tho
I thought there was an app ?
It is - and it's sad as Forums are such a rich resource for someone trying to not smoke cigarettes.
Something too I have noticed too is that people just don't like the hijacked threads.
People want/need the information they came here looking for - not a bunch of shenanigans.
We all love to have fun and goof off...but it's not right to do so when someone needs help
We have some truly wonderful people here.
Sure a lot of us are now 'older' - but don't you think that our experience makes us perfect to help a younger person ? Drop in products...rebuildables...battery safety ?
It's kind of like - you learn how to talk to your children to get them to listen...then you learn how to talk to your grand children...
Tootle puffer or cloud chucker - we are VAPERS !!
Sup ?
WE are what's Sup !
...too dang early in the morning for this much thinking
@smacuser, didn't see your post until after I logged out but now that insomnia seems to be winning...
I've seen various reasons given from old timers from added work time to other posters dropping out so they did too.
In my case it's medical but I also see a lack of diverse threads. Shinyitis thread wiped out about three other threads dealing with more specific types of vaping, no offense to the shinyitis thread.
Oliver doesn't seem to much care about this site, if at all, any more plus there's almost no engagement from the moderators.
Moderation is a joke these days. Racist, pornographic and hard drug posts are allowed to remain on here even after multiple reports have been made.
After the last software update everything went to hell. How many of your "notifications" are correct?
CASSA, born on ECF, decided ECF wasn't worthy of making posts to anymore. I think they do now but I got very used to ignoring them after their lengthy absence. And considering the ground we're losing, they aren't very effective these days.
Vaping has gone mainstream so the "it's-all-about-me" crowd think they know everything. They don't and the video evidence shows up here repeatedly.
There's very few ECF "supporting members" here anymore so now "dry herb" devices are promoted on ECF but you can't talk about them.I humbly vote drug talk can go elsewhere.
The bottom line answer to your question is an almost complete neglect/abandonment of this site, which literally probably saved my life, by its founder. It's heartbreaking. If this site continues to deteriorate at the rate it has, I won't be a supporting member next year.
I feel like I'm watching the death of an old friend.
ECF is dying and the person that can save it is AWOL.
