Three of my recipes were deleted today. Not changed back to private, or put into some kind of time out for me to change the name, photo, or description, just straight up deleted and gone forever, for being "offensive." Imagine if that was your work and it was the only copy you had of it.
One of them was called "Spiny Dragon Strap On." (Strap On is short for STRawberry APple WatermelON). But the picture was just a picture of a spikey dragon-themed helmet you might strap on to your head. Not so much as a curse word in the description. So that recipe was deleted for having the words "Strap On" in the name. I don't know what kind of puritanical nonsense that is, where someone can't see the words "strap on" without being so offended.
I admit that the pictures I chose for the other two dearly departed recipes might have given some especially uppity church ladies a case of the faints. I accept being politely warned that I would be banned if I posted anything else deemed intolerable.
VCC seems like a great calculator. I'm only posting this because 1) The recipes were deleted completely. 2) Capital punishment was administered to one recipe for the grand offense of uttering the words "strap on."
Be careful over there, is all I'm saying. You could spend half an hour writing a perfect name and perfect description for the only copy of your perfect recipe that you just finished and are so excited to share with others, only to have it deleted for using words that you can say on daytime fucking... excuse me... freaking... is that ok? Can I say freaking? television.
Can we officially declare this Dildogate 2020?
In commemoration of Dildogate 2020, why not pleasure yourself with two cucumbers and a carrot?
Ingredient|% :---|---: Carrot (Flavorah)|0.75 Cucumber (Flavorah)|0.50 Cucumber (TPA)|1.25 Lemon Grass (Flavorah)|0.20 Tropical Citrus (Flavorah)|0.50 Yakima Hops (Flavorah)|1.00
Flavor total: 4.2%
Remember to rate it at e-liquid-recipes.com!
Missing one dildo?
Sadly I had made a Dill Dough recipe on VCC that resulted in my account being suspended until February 1, 2021. Reason: “No constructive purpose to their actions other than to create dissent in the community”.
I don’t know if these guys are even human. Posts like yours and like mine and, yes, even like the Entire Strapon line of recipes started by u/ID10-T are humorous. And if there were ever a fucking year that needed some sense of humor, it was this fucking one.
I never did like cucumber vapes. I prefer a mouthful in real life! 😜
> I had made a Dill Dougb recipe on VCC that resulted in my account being suspended
What better way for VCC to say, "we cater to minors" than to enforce G-rated language?
But the real question is: where on earth did you find a dill flavor? I need that!!
TFA Cucumber is an incredibly useful flavor. It adds juiciness without the sweetness of FA Pear nor the floral notes of INW Cactus.
That's how it is when a forum is run by dictator-types such as Grubby and Steampugs.
Also, Steampugs has declared, that he wants us to (and I quote): "stop spreading rumours". We have yet to find out what these rumours he speak of are.
Oh well VCC. This community had your back and supported you when ATF went bonkers. Your thanks to us for that was to start Dildogate 2020. GOOD JOB.
I am quite new to vaping in general. Perhaps not a vaping virgin, but definitely regret having waited so long, and came here looking to gain more experience and greater depth :). I should perhaps add that i am an orthodox Jew living in Israel, a father of three and grandfather of two. (So far). I was searching around in preparation to post a question about "safe" recipes, but laughed so hard and long when i read the name you gave to your flavor that what happened could only be called "Postus Interruptus". May all your detractors be banned.
So on a website for adults using a product for adults we aren’t allowed to use adult words for fear of butthurt. Smh
To be fair, Spiny Dragon Strap On sounds like a serious case of butthurt.
It must literally be an issue with fear of literal butt hurt, because "Ass Kicking Custard Fuck Up" is apparently fine, but "strap on" is not.
if you fear butthurt, go max vg
This tyranny is why we dumped their tea in the harbor.
I lol’d.
It’s also why I only drink coffee.
Well that's fucked up.
Say NO to censorship! Just what we need within the community, aren’t the governmental restrictions enough? Deleting recipes is like burning books. No U!
Playing devil's advocate here, tbh I'm kinda tired of looking for recipes to mix and it's all dildos and tits and sex shit. Like I get it, you're edgy and you have sex. Cool. Now what flavor is this again?
I mix a lot of your recipes, often and they're great. I love them. I just don't need a vape juice to be an innuendo and I always have to make up a more descriptive name for the bottle.
Not saying deleting a recipe is justified, just my $0.02 on the matter.
I think you're right. I really do need to stop being such an adolescent all the time.
Thank you the warning! Its good to know that anything sexual will be removed. "Sex sells" though.
I find it even more interesting that these clandestine recipes are being treated like a product on a shelf
Well there's a simple answer to that - we should stop using that site. That's some serious bullcrap right there.
Don’t worry. All you gotta do is post a joke and you can be banned from participating there.
I'll save them the trouble i think.
I had opened an account to port over all my shit from atf and make a new home while atf was down. Turns out atf got back on its feet. I’m glad I never made the effort. Turns out, I’d rather Q and his lack of intervention than knee jerk humorless whackadoodles trying to police my “product”.
These dildo-hating prudes removed Custard Now presumedly because I changed the recipe image to a Parental Advisory label and changed the description of the recipe. I say presumedly because I received no message about it at all.
They need to get spammed with “Where’s Custard Now, now?” until this is explained
So sick of PC, Censorship, and Cancel Culture. Literally, ANYTHING can be considered offensive to someone.
By default any vaping website is 18+. Why on earth would they remove strap on.
Please post the other offensive names please xD
One was called Strap On (that one had a picture of a dildo), one was called Suckle My Manly Strap On (that one had a picture of a person holding a sign that included the words “fucked in the ass with a strap on”). The third one was called Spiny Dragon Strap On and just had a picture of a helmet. I don’t know what rule the third one broke, that’s why I made a post about being VERY careful, because apparently even that was going too far for VCC.
And here are the latest!
They are now claiming that u/ID10-T has admitted that he was wrong. Which he hasn't, but that is what the people behind VC claims.
So they went from: Being an alright calculator -> Dildogate 2020 -> Spreading lies
Isn't it about time that we stop supporting these guys?
I mean I did say I probably shouldn’t use plastic penis images for recipes, because it’s juvenile, and recognized that it’s reasonable to not want that on your website, but I certainly never said I was “In the wrong.” One of the pictures for the recipes that got deleted was just a helmet for Chrissakes. How was using a picture of a helmet “in the wrong?!?”
Hang on, I'm gonna strap on my wristwatch and go check this out.
We've decided not to allow offensive material on this subreddit anymore, and I've decided that the word "wristwatch" offends me. This is your first warning. Keep it up, and the banhammer starts swinging.
> Keep it up, and the banhammer starts swinging.
Keep what up, and swinging your what now? I find these completely normal and inoffensive words to have sexual connotations, and being a prude who fails to accept that sex shapes a huge part of the human experience these words offe... yeah no I can't. Tempted to go there and post a few recipes with (if you know what I mean!) tacked on to the names.
This is why I use ELR AND keep a separate word doc with my recipes as well
I can’t imagine not having a separate doc where you write everything, then copy and paste from that later. If the recipe is really that meaningless to you to not do that, it seems like it would be a waste of other people’s time. But I am an older person and come from before cloud storage. I always have a copy and a backup locally of anything I consider work. Probably just out of touch or something
i hope that churchgoing ninny doesn't find any of my recipes, holy shit. i've got TONS of ones with really fucked up names. like "raw dog under a busy overpass" "shart party" "cheerleader lockerroom tampon bin juice" "whorey pooters butter beer". . . to name a few lmao. luckily most of my public ones are tame, though i think its now time to make a few private. . .
Huh my daughters cot literally has a strap on mobile
To be fair, I do not like the idea of writing on the website itself for exactly this reason . I like to write in notepad or a note taking/keeping application like onenote or evernote and then copying and pasting the contents into the web format. Even with reddit I will occasionally do this. For most comments, such as this one, I just write it on the webpage, but if it's something more in depth that I want to more easily edit or come back to later, I will write it in a separate program. I like onenote because I use it for business as well. I recommend using something like that so that you can keep all your vape notes (or all notes) organized in one place. It also may help prevent a situation like this where you lose your only copy. There are some good youtube videos to help you set up an account and organize it properly if you don't already have one. That being said, this still sucks and I feel for you.
Where's a screenshot of what Grubby from VCC thinks about the reddit community.
I think someone over there gets outwardly excited with the thought of, or sight of, a dildo. Lips start quivering....they get weak in the knees...it’s their Kryptonite. 🤣😂🤣😂
Everything's a dildo if you're brave enough.
Jesuz this shit is straight up crazy! What kind of fascist regime is this??!!
My atf is still working fine for my reg mixing purposes anyways... but since ppl said so many good things about VCC I was thinking about coming over. I definitely will not now!
You know. The crazy part of this is that these sites rely on well known mixers to take their own time to make and post recipes while paying to use the service in order to draw other paying users. Always seemed ludicrous to me. Like if it was mine, I’d be at very least letting these mixers use it for free for contributing something positive to the community. Not acting like a total cheesedick and suspending them! Especially while being a total hypocrite. Ppl can handle allot of nonsense but you gotta practice what you preach man...
I get it that you feel unhappy about your recipes being deleted. Did you ask the admin to restore it in your private recipes? Did that function? For each flavor you test you don’t go for the first impression. I never heard you judging a flavor direct from the mix. So why here?
And honestly: do you think that your recipe name could offend someone or make him/her/them uncomfortable?
I think we share recipes to others to support them staying away from smoking. And this group consists of a large diverse universe of people and they have the right to be protected too - not only eJuice recipes.
Sometimes we need to balance all interests and even if we would miss something important in vaping without your recipes we would miss something very valuable if we exclude parts from our community by the language we use.
I still appreciate what you do for the community and value your comments and insight. I hope this doesn’t discourages you from sharing your insights and recipes!
I don't care that my recipes were deleted, really. I have backups. I just wanted to let everyone know how easy it is to get your recipes deleted, because not everyone will have backups.
I did ask, "Don't you think it would have been better to set the recipes to private or something, rather than deleting them completely?"
And the response I got was, "No, it would have been better to not have to do anything. Strap-on is a non-descriptive, offensive recipe title."
Kind of half the story that though really isn't it mate, it wasn't the word 'Strap-on' that was an issue, it was the massive dildo that you used as a product image, And then the fact that the last 3 recipes you posted were all Strap-on themed.
VC is and will always be a more relaxed forum, but there's a line mate, and using dildos as product images crosses that line in our opinion. I mean.....WHAT THE FUCK.....
It kinda comes to show, that when you guys made this calculator, you had NO IDEA what was going on in our community.
These recipes are not only well known, but also something that has a few years on them. You have made an issue out of them now.
The only thing that deserves a "WHAT THE FUCK" in this case is how poor you guys have handled this matter. Removing recipes without warning. That is the true poor taste here.
One did have a massive dildo.
One did have the f-word in the photo.
I don't know what was so upsetting about the third one, but people should know to watch themselves, because while it's kind to give people a warning before banning them, there's no warning given before recipes are deleted. People ought to know that.
'People ought to know' not to use Dildos as product images...yet....here we are...
> it wasn't the word 'Strap-on' that was an issue, it was the massive dildo
Do their terms of service clearly define where the line is drawn between (permitted) reasonably sized dildos, and (prohibited) massive dildos? I sure hope so.