Thanks Bot:

I think it would help preserve the sanity of the readers of Fatwallet to invest in developing a "Thanks Bot". What the bot would do is take up a small space under the initial post; no more than 200 pixels high. Instead of posters saying "thanks op!" or "thanks for this" or any other thank you message, they can push a button to thank the poster. Then, the bot would display a message like "## of people have thanked dealposter1 for this deal." And then if people care enough, they can hit a button like "expand" to see the names of people that thanked the OP.

It would still keep the pleasantry of thanking the poster, but give important posting space to the individuals who are contributing to the details of the offer.

I'm well aware, and I don't see the thread rating system being in the same league. I myself have been guilty of rating a thread green and thanking the poster. I relate it to real life, really. Clicking "Thank You" translates to thanking the individual, and rating their thread green translates to telling other people about the deal.

It's not so much to please the individual posting, because seeing that long green bar is pleasing enough. It's about keeping the posts relevant to the topic.

Like other FW members suggest, we could have reputation points such as at SD. That way, we know which members are reputable and trustworthy and which who are working their way there.

Since people don't read FAQ's, for new members have common abbreviations (YMMV, etc) show up as a certain color link (to differentiate from regular links like stores and CashBack) that go to the acronym page. Once they see that a reference like this exists, there can be a button on the top of the page to turn off the linking. The links can even just go to an anchor tag on a main FAQ page with the option button displayed prominently there. Another implementation would be as popup tooltips that appear when the abbreviations are hovered over, again giving the user the option there to quickly turn them off when they have learned them.

There are many variations of this idea, whose underlying premise is to just put the information there for people to quickly help themselves to it, while easily being given the option as to when they have learned it and want to turn it off.

(P.S. I'm disappointed no one liked my lolcats idea above... I think we can still work it in somewhere.... )

I like how the specialty stores like Petco and PETsMART have such good rewards. With gas and all sky high, I was wondering specialty stores like performance bike be included. Thanks.

I think it would help quite a bit to add to the " STOP! You are about to post in the HOT DEALS category..." message that comes up when you are about to post in HOT DEALS. Maybe underneath in red, put something like, "If this is a grocery deal, please post it in the NEW grocery forum." (Possibly even with a link to the grocery forum.)

This would not only help put the right deals in the right forum, but also it would make people more aware of the grocery forum so that more people might frequent it.

Just a thought.

PML said:TM1 said:PML said:If you were to implement the "who's logged on" feature, please make it an option to keep your status private if you so choose.

Private status and hide your posts....sounds like you have a lot to hide. Why are you here then, this is not an anonymous Internet site.

Wow, that didn't take you long.

My reasons don't concern you. I have a right to my opinion same as you.

I can understand your ability to hide your status, and would probably take advantage of that as well; however, in regards to hiding your posts; I we'll have to agree to disagree on that point, as I often lookup users to see if they are trolling so the ability to see their previous post history is extremely beneficial to me (and I'm sure many others).

Giving a user the ability to hide all their posts pretty much allows them to mask their sometimes not so obvious trolls which in my opinion will detract from the quality of the forums.

munkyxtc said:I'd like to see a duplicate check be performed before a deal is posted to a forum. If I post a deal and then another user posts a deal maybe some fuzzy logic could look at all the current items in forum X and based on the % threshold figure out if there is too much in common...aka a duplicate.

Also, to expand that thought, I think it would an improvement if during the thread submission process you provided a spot to provide a URL of the deal you are posting. Still you'd be able to post it in the comments area; however, I think a little FW standardization could be useful to organize core info. For example; the CashBack blurb in appropriate deals is easy to spot & read; it would be nice if that could be implemented with the core details of the posting.

EDIT: I just re-read that and I'm not sure it makes sense. If you read it and are left scratching your head send a PM I'll try harder.FW is working on a Hot Deals "posting wizard" to help provide a standard template for new topics.