post subcategories for each vaporizer
You (and many others) are only looking at this issue from your own viewpoint. Making things nice and easy for members often means 10 times the work for us. The Classified section is a perfect example. Our previous configuration was a breeze for us. Now the setup is much better for members, but buyers and sellers alike are constantly breaking the rules and modding it is a nightmare. You're asking for a whole section on each vape, where we have to decide which threads deserve to stand and which are duplicates, and which ones need to be merged into others. That's not all the time consuming issues that would need addressing either. In some cases there would be hours of work in store for some mod, just with the new threads created overnight for one single popular vape. We don't have the staff to clean up the resulting mess, and we're not going to add more staff to get it done either. That would create more issues for us in other areas.
Take a look at the vaporizer forum at marijuana.com sometime. Just scan the pages and read the titles. It wouldn't be quite that bad here, since we do have Ask FC, but questions on specific models aren't usually allowed in Ask FC anyway, unless it's a new member trying to decide on a vape. As it is now, we get 'what should I buy' threads, etc. in both Vape Discussion and General Vaporiztion, where they clearly don't belong. I'm constantly amazed at the number of new members that don't bother to take a few minutes to look over the forum layout (and forum titles like
Vapor related but not model specific) before posting a thread.
It take so much time to read through a hundred+ pages of posts to find that little fix or advice I'm after.
Ask your questions in the vape thread. People do it all the time. But if your answer was posted a page or two back, don't be surprised (or upset) if someone tells you to do some reading, as the answer was just posted 30 min. ago, or yesterday. As for reading a 100 page thread for your "fix or advice", you don't have to read every word. You just scan the posts. Half the posts on any given page are nothing but chatty comments and it only takes a split second to spot a useless post. You can scan about a page a minute, especially if you know what you're looking for. If you can't spare the time I have no sympathy for you. I joined this forum 4 years ago this month, and I had a lot of info when I arrived. I knew all the best vapes, best dealers, and best places to get info. There was no 'one stop shopping' for vapor info then. I spent a lot of time searching, posting questions on half assed forums, and emailing manufacturers and dealers for info. Now we have vape makers, dealers, and tons of info right here. You can also find friendly experts for any particular vape and start a conversation with them, if you're having trouble finding the info you need. If someone won't take the time to answer your questions, start a convo with someone else, or ask in the thread. But people don't usually like to be the 'answer man' for lazy newbies, so you should be prepared to dig in and do some work/reading on your own.
It can seem overwhelming, with the volume of posts here, but it's really not that bad. Having a huge amount of info to sort through is better than not being able to find it at all. And this forum operates on a balance between ease of use for members, and ease of running it, for us. If the balance isn't in a manageable range, then either the membership is unhappy, or the staff is. Tilted too much toward member ease, and the staff wants to quit. If the balance is too much in our favor, membership drops. That's what has happened at marijuana.com. It's the biggest (highest traffic) mj forum on the web, but ownership biased changes there have resulted in less member participation, at any hour of any day, than what we have here on a much smaller forum. Right now there are 26 members online there, and 49 here. That ratio is about average, and their sections and topics are far wider in range than ours. They get mj users. We just get vaporists. We're not perfect here, but we're successful. And again, it's a balancing act. It has to be.
