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[Poll] Should Provider Offers Sink?
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voted Yes, after a week
Looks like your privileges has sunk instead.
Well we all know who has the access though, don't we, as providers can still bump rather old threads from Black Friday last year.
Make a separate offer section with 3 offers on top of the front page and with a link to the offers category. And remove offers from the section with normal posts.
It's when you know money is involved.
And not even big money. Time to wake up and realize - this community is a product :-/
A Thread should sink after its out of stock or a week after last post. Lastly its the providers decision to bump a thread or not.
A BF or any other Deal that is 2+ month, should sink or be closed, if the deal is dead.
How do you prevent blatant abuse with "double x" trick?
For the mods sake any solution needs to be easy to automate, so stock checks are out (there's no standard).
My view is sink offer threads somewhere between 3 days and a week or two -- I don't mind what, as long as the end result is less front page pollution from last year's black Friday offers with "post your order number" spam.
Well, thats the way you think.
its not the same spam as fellow shitposters spamming. With order numbers you get users have to be active to get something, that push up the visita instantly. Dramas just wont.
Doesn't mean the thread needs to be on the front page.
is a provider doing stupid shit to keep 4-5 threads at the top of the new list really helping "the community"?
anyway just give us a way to ignore (who we perceive as) abusers, why doesn't this forum have an ignore user feature?
maybe in 2022.
I voted 3 days, people looking for offers can search by category.
Simple, light solution.
https://www.lowendtalk.com/discussion/173481/dustinc-hates-him-improve-your-let-experience-with-this-one-simple-trick#latest
It's interesting how sinking privileges were removed from mods. In the beginning plans were not like this.
The following quote was taken from an official initial plan:
Maybe something was not listened, like what I put in bold?
The following quote is from this comment:
I guess he cleaned it, and now he wants revenue, therefore it's best to limit the power of mods now?
I never liked most mods here and it was mutual, so I have no problem with less power and corruption.
True, but less power should come from community voting for transparency; not from hidden agenda and profits.
I love how all of the sudden - this thread is ignored by the very person who started it.
you could simply close some of the outdated stuff, no?
That you still believe users have a say on the decisions here is kinda cute.
@jbiloh
@jbiloh is already receiving notifications as the OP of the threads, and yet actively choosing to ignore them.
Jon, be like Jon Snow..
I do not understand what the problem is .....a provider found a way to push up the post ( he calls this intelligent marketing), if I did this personal to my offer the post would be closed and I would be banned.
If their post has not been closed for a year and the respective provider has not suffered anything, it means that this is what the owner of this forum wants.
Therefore: stop complaining that you are not solving anything!
Help the owner to have his protege posting /offers all time on the first site on top positions.
(in the meantime there are about 3...4)
Now that was clearly unnecessary.
There's a difference when the OP or the customers are bumping it, but for you to do it unnecessarily is just you being a dique.
What did he do to warrant the ban?
Interesting priorities, LET.
The dedi_ro logs into customers' services without letting them know - does not get banned.
The dude bumps a few specific threads - gets banned.
I love this spelling.
I wasn't involved in that issue or really anything about this dude. That said, we are not Team Moderator: World Police or LowEndPeoplesCourt. Was there actual evidence provided or just people slinging crap?
"A few specific threads"...c'mon, he was a dique.