Just wanted to give you a heads up. We are testing leaving placeholders for deals that have been moved to Expired Deals. This is so people searching Hot Deals for a moved topic will find the placeholder, thus helping solve the "where did the XXX deal go?" problem.
Please note that the placeholders shouldn’t bump, meaning they will constantly drop off as other things are posted. Let us know what you think. We will be monitoring this, and if it becomes an issue re-think it.
MarsdenFubar said: Just wanted to give you a heads up. We are testing leaving placeholders for deals that have been moved to Expired Deals. This is so people searching Hot Deals for a moved topic will find the placeholder, thus helping solve the "where did the XXX deal go?" problem.
Please note that the placeholders shouldn’t bump, meaning they will constantly drop off as other things are posted. Let us know what you think. We will be monitoring this, and if it becomes an issue re-think it.
Mars~ You guy are starting "xxx" deals... adults section only stuff huh?
I saw it the other day for a thread moved to Finance, and I liked the idea. Would at least expose me to some useful threads I might not otherwise see while keeping things in their rightful place.
drew2money said: Not the thread crap, but I would like Fatwallet to make improving the search engine the No 1 priority. It's about as useful as bing. I don't have a problem with the search. Actually, I love the fact that I can search for something as small as "GB" and it'll return any result that has those two letters in a row, whether they are part of another word or not. No other site that I visit allows me to do that and it is very handy for certain searches. If that is considered broken, please don't fix it.
Search isn't less of a priority. It is a much larger project. This is simply an effort by our Mod Team to use what's currently available to make things slightly better.
How about going through the hot deals section every day and moving any thread that is no longer valid? There are some threads in "hot deals" that have been around for weeks or months after the deal is long gone.
Great idea! But, please do not move deals that are NOT dead into expired deals section (ie, Xbox 360 Arcade w/ $100 gift card @ WalMart is still alive but instead of updating the thread, it was erroneously moved, imho)
Applause for the new cheese policy, but let's keep things in perspective; FW search is pretty good all things considered, those things being that prolly 60-65% of the time deal expiration is undeterminable in advance. I've personally had deals resurrect themselves (zombie deals) and the mods have always been great about moving the threads back into the appropriate forums after being alerted.
You could just leave everything in one place and allow multiple views based on category and type and single point searching that would also allow views based on category and type, give up all the moderator effort spent flipping things between multiple buckets, save a lot of user time spent looking through multiple buckets, and give people the opportunity to look at multiple categories/types while excluding others.
Frankly, I dont have the time or interest in looking through 5 separate buckets, but I dont seem to have much trouble scanning through and ignoring what doesnt interest me.
Sure makes life concerning for the people who like to wash their hands a lot and keep things in their own special buckets, but if you're trying to improve access to content while lowering the workload for both the operators and the users...
These placeholders are one way to work around the search deficiency. But I would suggest giving the search engine the ability to return results from Expired Deals at the same time. Maybe rate the expired ones lower than the active ones. This would solve the issue of not seeing deals moved to the expired section, and eliminate the need for the placeholder work-arounds.
While others are discussing the search issues, I'd like to see either "search threads I've viewed" or "search in threads I've viewed"
This cheesey feature will be a BIG improvement over what has been a big problem since the expired deals has been implimented, but I fear I will still not be able to easily find what I swear I was looking at a few days/weeks/months ago when I'm not exactly sure what the keyword I should be searching for.
Llilith said: user0001 said: Will these placeholders show up in searches?Yes, thats the idea. Oops! I just reread OP. I had seen a thread in OT with a MOVED by it and thought this was the same thing. My concern was for non-deal topics that start in Hot Deals and whether they would have a placeholder that would show up in searches.
drew2money said: Not the thread crap, but I would like Fatwallet to make improving the search engine the No 1 priority. It's about as useful as bing.
Just use google...
Fatwallet Staff: Look at google for custom searches or something. I'm sure you using their search engine (and providing results & ads obviously) can net you guys some money.
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