SakiMartini said:How about limiting the amount of "red" each person can give? The criteria could be for every "green" you give someone, then you have a credit for a "red" you can use. Fair enough that if you are really participating in this forum that you should give and take.

This will hopefully help people really think about whether the deal is red before they click it. And for those negatives out there that just likes to red everything, well then they obviously have no red credit to use, cause they probably don't like giving green to anyone.

Too many times I've read a deal and either read or wondered myself...why is this red? Just because a deal is not for me personally doesn't make it a bad deal.

not a bad idea but a i think credit 1 red for every 10 green might make fw a happier place.

Idea: integrated Reseller Ratings (or implement FatWallet's own version) in the Quick Summary box to show the ratings of the linked/referenced online sellers. This would warn FW members of sellers with "questionable business practices" or history of problems (eg. 1saleaday) before hastily jumping on a "deal" that may turn into a frustrating buying experience.

https: login support by default

Spend mondo ad dollars that MS has and talk Newegg into giving you guys the same deal they have.

how about a "click on a user id and see the last few posts that person has made"?

I still find FW one of my favorite websites and it is where I start every time I need to buy something. I wish the Fat Cash were easier to use. I have purchased hundreds of items that I've found here, but have only done 6 or 8 Fat Cash 'rebates'. I don't know if FW gets credit for every time I click through and buy from an OPs link, but I don't get much. Live.com CashBack isn't much better, but that's where I go when I see a significant item to purchase.

cheers.

Finding which products I want.

One of the most interesting aspects of FW is that I often find out about things I've never heard about, never thought I would want, or would have never thought were worth anything. E.g. Buffalo routers, polk speakers, Lodge cookware, NEC/BENQ dvd roms, etc etc. It's unfortunate we have to wait for a deal for something to be posted.

So I suggest that we should have a forum where people post their favorite products, even if they can't find a deal. The hard part would be keeping it from being filled with commonplace things. Maybe the green/red rating would separate the wheat from the chaff though...

JoeDeals said:Nuke that annoying GD yellow-haired bastard that keeps popping up at the bottom of the screen.
+10

I resisted the Modern view for a long time. A couple of weeks ago I switched over to it. There is a javascript problem that causes massive memory usage on Firefox. After about half an hour my browser slows to a crawl. I really tried to stick with it, thinking maybe the problem lie elsewhere, but the Modern view was most definitely the cause. You might want to look into that.

I'd like to see some sort of moderated product reviews at FW. Something I could trust a la Consumer Reports. Looking for unbiased reviews online for ANYTHING is an exercise in futility. Just try doing a Google net-wide search for anything having to do with batteries, cellphones or camera equipment and you'll see what I mean in about 2 seconds.

rollover preview panes in the forums so I can scan the info on a deal without having to click each link.

More thorough posting guidelines for titles would help too.

off in the distance, customizable homepage...a MyFatwallet if you will. Can add feeds from whatever forums, add price searchs, CashBack info, etc.

Cash sharing from fatwallet for legitimate clicks & purchases made thru links that members post.

peas said:The search engine is just barely better than useless.

Deals with alot of Green but are DEAD should be rated down somehow. It's annoying to see a good deal with lots of green, wade through the posts only to find it's not valid

^^^ this ^^^

nuck44 said:k000 said:Please remove the negative rating the posts / replies, and add rep point system, which seem to encourage people to really help to gain more rep points. negative rating just encourages bashing of newbies and in cases when poster just disagrees or wants to weigh down the thread so that otehrs can't geta hot deal. With reps and with overall thread rating any poster gets to rate the thread only once and is mroe fair system.

I can't understand why FW has never implemented that... almost every other forum site has that system... and yes drift towards SD is noticable, and deals show up on FW way later with thansk to SD...

Actually I love FW because of the Red/Green system. It makes threads so fun too read! I just look at the massive green and massive reds and know all I need

Remember a couple years ago when FW took away the RED and started the "Boost" system (only green was allowed)? People freaked out and left FW and then they re-implemented the red/green system.

I'd love the addition of Rep points ... but don't take away our red!!

Not sure where the guys were running to to mark threads as Red... no one else (hot deals forum) has that...

Actually reading your note reminds me and makes it clear that many people are on FW just to mark other Red / green - it's just a political statement, and does not add any real value in terms of helping each other on the site.