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Lazy people are a pet peeve. I know it's not solely vape related, but it happens there too. Was trying to help a guy on reddit (maybe it was a gal idk), asking about a
gold mod to do a full gold setup. They said if it was in EU that would be awesome. I don't know what's eu, uk, lmnop over there. I assume UK is close, found a site selling a gold minikin 2. No links but spelled out the site name (they could look it up). I get this response back that too bad there aren't any available in europe (never specified a country).
I'll be the first to admit I've asked my share of questions. But not without some input and work on my end trying to figure stuff out. At least a basic google search ffs. Some people just can't be helped I guess. Like idk, did you google 'gold mod'? That's a start. Sheesh. And while I didn't go add it to my cart, it said it was in stock at the site name I gave them. Like I can't put it in the cart FOR you, shit. Make an effort.
I see a lot of that going on. "What tank fits this mod?". Me. Hey google - what maximum size atomizer fits xyz mod without overhang. Google - answer. Drives me up a wall. Waiting for people to start posting 'hey guys - am I thirsty? Should I get some water?' How the hell do I know, ARE you thirsty? Breathe in, breathe out. Wipe, then pull your drawers up. Fml.
We've got a couple of members here who are REALLY bad about doing that, like it never fucking occurred to them that the entire Internet is not just VU and nothing else. The part of that that gets me is the goddamn WHINING. Every damn one of those helpless fuckers is a whiner, too. Whining is one of those characteristics that turns me into the Incredible Hulk, and there's no telling what I might say. I can't stand it.
Most of the people here are super-self-motivated, though, thank god. There are a bunch of us here who wouldn't be caught dead asking a question before trying to research it ourselves. Sometimes if the research is conflicting, or there's a concept that's really hard to understand, or it's about SAFETY, then we ask questions.
The people who ask things like "what tank fits this mod" are people who know NOTHING about vaping, but they've heard all the hoo-hah about things being dangerous, and they're scared of blowing their faces off by putting a Fireluke tank on a GV Aegis. OH GOD NO, DON'T DO IT! ARE YOU INSANE? They need to find and read some Vaping For Dummies site before they buy shit or show up on here.
The only redeeming factor I can think of is that a lot of us here have been vaping a really long time and we have a lot of experience, and like anything else in life, when you're very experienced at something, you forget what it's like to be brand new - you don't even realize how much you know until you run across somebody who knows nothing. There are people at my work (and other people tell me I'm like this too) who know their jobs so well and have been at them so long, that it's hard for them to explain really basic stuff to a beginner. There's a lady in our Finance group that, when I first started working with her, I couldn't understand a single thing she tried to explain to me, because she'd start in the middle of "the story" and leave out the basic stuff that I didn't know. I'd have to tell her, look, you've gotta dumb this down for me, because I'm not an accountant, and I've got to know where point A is before I can work on point Q.