As much as I agree with canydavid, I do believe that mods HAVE to get involved in this, especially since some people may be mis-using this functionality to hide the deals from members.

There are times when a user-driven update HAS worked in the past though - quick summary is a perfect example of that.

airtommy said:Why don't people use the [Flag As Dead Deal] link? I think I'm the only person who uses it.

example

865 page views, OOS hours ago, still not flagged as dead

I just alert the mods for all expired deals (never flag as dead). They've got nothing better to do

BTW, I've just alerted the mods on your "dead deal". After two weeks, it is still in the hot deals forum!

SpinDizzy said:
You just don't worry about your own threads?

iceui2 said:*DEAD* Coleman Hooligan 2 Backpacking Tent - $22.96 @ Amazon

For my own threads, I just set auto-expire so that I don't have to alert the mods. At the time given in auto-expire, it will automatically move to the Expired Deals forum.

For all Woot deals I post, I always set auto-expire to the next day. When it sells out before then, I set the auto-expire to expire early.

canydavid said:You'd think the Mods would mark a deal expired/dead when they kill it themselves...

Well actually, "Free Stuff" deals don't get moved. I tried alerted the mods on dead "Free Stuff" deals, but they told me to leave it where they are.

canydavid said:iceui2 said:canydavid said:You'd think the Mods would mark a deal expired/dead when they kill it themselves...

Well actually, "Free Stuff" deals don't get moved. I tried alerted the mods on dead "Free Stuff" deals, but they told me to leave it where they are.The could at least mark it dead.
-cd

But they don't