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unclegromit You did a sterling job with the marquee last year, I wonder would you consider doing the honours for us again this year ? Or as BrenD put it - be the one to whip us into shape.

It isn't just this forum or vaping forums though it's all forums regardless of the subject, facebook killed off an awful lot of boards and has very much impacted on post counts and membership, however as Perpetua said in some ways the slow down can have some positive effects. One of the boards I'm also involved with used to have thousands of posts per day, now its lucky to get 20 but the hard core of members who remain are now a very close group of friends, very supportive of each other and very much enjoying having time to really talk about things that matter to us away from the goldfish bowl of social media.

Whilst a lot of vaping stuff has ended up on facebook I've found myself using the new "snooze" feature for almost all of the vaping groups I belong to as I was sick to death of reading the non stop posts from people asking for juice recommendations, or constantly droning on and on and on about ohh look how big/dense a cloud I can make. There is so much misinformation out there it winds me up no end and any attempt to correct it invariably ends up as a huge row. Not forgetting the scammers and backyard juice makers - it bothers me no end seeing home brew being advertised and sold for silly money and recommended in groups with the inevitable fights when the sellers get overwhelmed with orders, can't cope, fail to deliver and then the wheres my juice complaints start and fights break out between the people who support one side or the other.

And then there are the raffles - more than one group hold regular raffles for donated vape stuff ostensibly they are doing it to raise money for charity but I have yet to see any proof that the money is passed on to whichever "charity" is named - I'm not saying that they don't pass on the money simply that they are not being as transparent as they should be.

Now that I have "snoozed" the groups at least they aren't showing up on my feed irritating me and I can choose to go to their page and see what I want to see when I want to see it.

I think AAEC will pick up again, but may never get back to the pre TPD heydays and thats OK so long as we remain welcoming, friendly and a source of good knowledgeable support and advice we'll do fine.