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Here's a question: are you going to reward members if they "steal" a deal from another member at another site?
I have absolutely no issue when someone posts something that originated elsewhere, although I personally believe credit should be given in those cases, but I'm curious how you'll respond. You may see an influx of people copying and pasting without searching first (lots of reposts).
DutchDutch said:Here's a question: are you going to reward members if they "steal" a deal from another member at another site?
I have absolutely no issue when someone posts something that originated elsewhere, although I personally believe credit should be given in those cases, but I'm curious how you'll respond. You may see an influx of people copying and pasting without searching first (lots of reposts).
Only if they were the OP in those threads as well.
DutchDutch said:Here's a question: are you going to reward members if they "steal" a deal from another member at another site?
I have absolutely no issue when someone posts something that originated elsewhere, although I personally believe credit should be given in those cases, but I'm curious how you'll respond. You may see an influx of people copying and pasting without searching first (lots of reposts).
I'd like to chime in on this--
There have been occassions where I find a deal elsewhere and "re-tool" it. For instance, on another deal site there may not be FW Cash Back and I have to compute the net cost, create new hyperlinks and post additionaly coupon/savings codes that apply to an FW only deal. I don't consider that stealing when you are putting a good deal of your own effort into improving or making the deal unique to FW.
If all someone is doing is cutting/pasting info, then yes, by all means, give credit to the originating poster/site.
DutchDutch said:Here's a question: are you going to reward members if they "steal" a deal from another member at another site?
I have absolutely no issue when someone posts something that originated elsewhere, although I personally believe credit should be given in those cases, but I'm curious how you'll respond. You may see an influx of people copying and pasting without searching first (lots of reposts).We think we've found a decent formula to reward those posting truly hot deals. Topics that are reposts or otherwise not particularly helpful probably won't push those members onto our leaderboard. Seems the results of week #1 are pretty valid, don't you think?
Oh, and I'm with you - no problem with people finding deals elsewhere and posting them here with credit to the original site/poster, or even better what MISTERCHEAP does... though we'd certainly love the posts to be made here first.
MISTERCHEAP said:DutchDutch said:Here's a question: are you going to reward members if they "steal" a deal from another member at another site?
I have absolutely no issue when someone posts something that originated elsewhere, although I personally believe credit should be given in those cases, but I'm curious how you'll respond. You may see an influx of people copying and pasting without searching first (lots of reposts).
I'd like to chime in on this--
There have been occassions where I find a deal elsewhere and "re-tool" it. For instance, on another deal site there may not be FW Cash Back and I have to compute the net cost, create new hyperlinks and post additionaly coupon/savings codes that apply to an FW only deal. I don't consider that stealing when you are putting a good deal of your own effort into improving or making the deal unique to FW.
If all someone is doing is cutting/pasting info, then yes, by all means, give credit to the originating poster/site.
Hey mods, why don't u just create cross-site crawlers for this. =)
This is nice, I guess. But how does this help me find a hot deal? I don't think it does.
I have mixed feelings about "rep" systems, which is what the Leaderboard seems to be. On the one hand, it helps one see who's legit and who's not. But on the other hand, posters start to beg for reps and get all worked up over the whole process.
But, hey, congrats to everybody on the leaderboard. I'm sure they all deserve the recognition.
I wouldn't think that basing it on number of views or number of deal posting has any bearing on how useful the deal was. I think it should be based on how USEFUL the post to others. Although, it's not perfect the rating of the post is one way to determine. Aquick way to determine may be let's say add up all the greens a FWer got in a period of time (let's say a month) and subtract all the reds in the same time, sort it by descending order, and there you have the top 5 or 10 whatever... my 2 sense.
and oh, I don't care where the deal came from originally, If I see it here first, credit goes to whoever posted it here.. (really, if the person hadn't posted it here, I wouldn't see it so if someone posted it on somewhere else wouldn't really help my cuz, simply because I'm not going browse every single hot deal site out there)
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