I have been a member for a long time now... and I find it impossible to find anything really useful or relevant in the hot deals thread in one quick visit. It used to be that one visit for a few minutes would have me evaluating new products, reading about the benefits of seven jeans, clicking links that actually worked to products that were good deals that I could actually order. In the past year, I have visited less and less frequently. Today for example, there is a post about a $6 camera on the front page, and it is there because it keeps getting bumped up from people saying "this camera sucks and isn't worth the money", not a hot deal at all! Then, to go actually look at the camera, the link doesn't work, and then I have to copy and paste just to go see what camera is getting such crappy reviews so I don't go buy one elsewhere. As far as thanking the op in a thread, every time you do it bumps the thread, makes it more likely to get on the front page, where someone with limited time like me might see it and actually get in on it, instead of seeing just a bunch of junk people are negging and arguing over stuck there. With the front hot deal a totally useless deal most of the time, I have to go wade through the forums. I see locked threads, reposts, and yet, I get a lot of deals from threads marked repost because the commotion they cause actually gets them bumped up, while the original thread has recieved no responses and is nowhere to be found in the forums! If a deal gets green, bump it. If the deal was worth posting twice, bump the original thread while you delete the repost thread. If a deal sucks and all the responses are bashes on the op, don't bump it to the top of the forum!! The idea of having the ops link activate CashBack is essential for me. I miss out on CashBack all the time in my rush to go get the deal. I can't count how many times I have missed out, and I wouldn't want to think about it honestly. I would love to be excited about waking up and checking the hot deals forum for my deal of the day again, instead of forgetting about it half the time and being disappointed when I bother the other half the time because while I was wading through the locked threads, reposts, and horrible or worse, dead deals that keep getting bumped up to the top, I was missing out on the one great deal that fell to the 8th page while I was reading and finally found just after the last person got the last one. Nothing like missing a deal to make you want to forget about FW for a while and revisit when you calm down! Another example of a deal that has been in the top three pages of the hot deals forums for at least a week now: Oh, and one more thing, I am tired of seeing the same deal that could be posted under one thread split up into competitive threads, like today, there is one post for a Columbia jacket womens, and another for a different jacket from the same site also Columbia but mens, these should not be separate, it is one site offering deals on Columbia jackets, so make them one thread!! And, this is really irritating!! |
