Comments / Feedback / Suggestions Thread 2020

scotty on 02/01/2020 - 19:27
Last edited 03/01/2020 - 13:26 by 1 other user

New year, new suggestion thread. Yes I know there are still many pending "unresolved" from last year's suggestion thread, but please use this thread in 2020 to post your suggestions for new features, bug report, feedbacks etc. Please refrain from creating new posts for feature requests / bug reports — they will be merged back here. Also, please check this wiki page as your suggestion may already have been mentioned.

The majority of things you see, as well as policies on OzBargain were implemented based on user feedback. Please see the Site & Guideline Updates Announcement Thread to keep up to date with the changes/features that we implement as they are added.

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  • wisdomtooth on 04/12/2020 - 17:10

    This just occurred to me… There's a truckload of IT people here… How about outsourcing the site's development to fellow community members? That would surely alleviate the site owners here… And speed things up a bit! Developments could come online in a beta site first, and authorised to wider deployment by the site owners, of course.

    • Clear on 04/12/2020 - 20:15

      OzBargain is very much a custom solution that scotty and moocher are all over. I'm sure if you have suggestions on what you think could be improved on they'll be happy to take it under consideration.

    • jv on 08/12/2020 - 16:46
      +1

      How about outsourcing the site's development to fellow community members?

      ha ha…

      Then OzBargain would look like MSY

      • wisdomtooth on 08/12/2020 - 16:50

        I don't see why.

        1. That's already partly in place with wiki pages.
        2. As with mostly all development, changes are tested in a beta environment, and only deployed to the public environment with mgt approval.
  • Moderatorneil on 07/12/2020 - 16:47

    Just for clarity on this thread.

    We always encourage feedback but won't always respond if the suggestion is in the not sure/would be nice/what the pile.

    • capslock janitor on 08/12/2020 - 09:38

      Ahh okay…
      Perhaps pinned or edited in would be nice,
      I feel neglected.

  • wisdomtooth on 09/12/2020 - 08:49

    How about a EXPIRES IN X DAYS warning tag next to deal titles similar to the IN X DAYS already there?

  • OhPee on 10/12/2020 - 09:11
    Merged from NSFW Ethical Hunting, Adult Products etc

    Would it be constructive to have a sign in Tab to NSFW deals? This way items such as swords, Rifles and hunting equipment as well as Adult products (that one asking for a friend) could be listed ona sperate NSFW tab.

    Would it be too difficult to police? It would take controversy away if you had to age verify every time you opened the tab.

    • dust on 10/12/2020 - 09:14
      +6

      This is a good idea because age verification is impossible to bypass on the internet.

      • OhPee on 10/12/2020 - 13:18

        Correct, the internet is a place where honest people share the truth.

    • Clear on 10/12/2020 - 09:20

      I know scotty has made it clear many times that he doesn't want adult content on OzBargain for various reasons. You ought to create one yourself ;)

      • whooah1979 on 10/12/2020 - 09:22

        Does condoms count as adult content?

        • Clear on 10/12/2020 - 09:25
          +1

          Nah they give those out to teenagers at school.

        • Moderatorneil on 10/12/2020 - 10:56

          Banned Items

          (Lingerie, Prophylactics are permitted, Toys and Pornography are not permitted)

          • spackbace on 10/12/2020 - 11:43

            @neil: Just on that, I have noticed general discounts from adult stores (Love Honey, for instance) just get removed, yet offer lingerie as well as adult toys

            • Moderatorneil on 29/12/2020 - 10:59

              @spackbace: Love Honey is a "sex toy shop" as described by themselves.

      • OhPee on 10/12/2020 - 13:19

        No, I see how hard the mods have to work here.

    • whooah1979 on 10/12/2020 - 09:24

      Rifles and hunting equipment

      You can forget about this. Too many lefties here.

      • Moderatorneil on 10/12/2020 - 11:00

        Too many lefties here.

        Comments like these attacking righties, lefties, other inflammatory comments is why gun deals are no longer permitted.

        Firearms deals are now banned. Not because we have an argument for or against but because of the shitshow of comments, reports and attacks this brings to OzBargain. Not helpful for bargain hunters, moderators or members.

        -Source

        Any further comments about firearms can be made in Should Firearm/Weapons Deals Be Disallowed? as to not turn this into the firearm shitshow thread: part II.

  • wisdomtooth on 14/12/2020 - 12:20
    -4

    I wish people didn't feel so inhibited from neg'ing deals. Quite often we see people providing candid negative feedback on products and services they bought in the past, and still they won't neg the deal. Why? No wonder, equally often we see people who neg'ed a deal being piled with neg votes on in their comment till their deal neg is erased to oblivion. It seems like mods have been so worried about "too much controversy" amongst members that they devised rules that essentially hide all disagreement.

  • jwu56 on 17/12/2020 - 14:58
    +1

    I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before, but can I suggest adding a way to sort by price / discount % in the search, so that it's easier to look through the price history of a product?

    • Moderatorscotty on 17/12/2020 - 15:10

      I have replied previously. Right now each "entry" in the search result is a post, and a post is a collection free form text. Often a deal post might have multiple products & multiple prices. Sometimes a post might be a site-wide discount with no pricing information. Implementing sorting posts by price / discount is not feasible.

      • wisdomtooth on 17/12/2020 - 15:24

        The formatting interface certainly identifies prices from text in post titles, as it highlights them in a different colour… How about adding price criteria in the search syntax? Or the front page filter? Sometimes I just feel like browsing a bargain bin, not sifting through multi-hundred—sometimes multi-thousand!—dollar "investment". (That may be different from what @jwu56 was asking for, though—for a price history, I usually just pull a tag search on the specific product and sort it by date.)

        • jwu56 on 18/12/2020 - 02:30

          What I was thinking of is an extra price input box / text box deal for the deal creator. It would make the search function a lot better, and everything a lot clearer so we don't get non-deal bargains. To solve the problem for site-wide or store-wide deals, we can just add a radio box to change the type of deal and just have the deal creator enter a percentage discount, so we still have the search function

          This might be a lot of work to implement though, and I don't think a majority of the community would need it.

          I can provide a mockup / design if you want me to clear things up / explain things better.

          And, I mean so that I'm able to sort by price, not really a price history per se, but that'd be nice, as the better deals are usually on ozbargain and save a lot of sifting through the web and comparing etc.

          • wisdomtooth on 18/12/2020 - 13:08

            @jwu56: Yeah, you're right: what you're asking is a lot of work, and the community would most likely baulk at it. It's way too much kafkian bureaucratic detail… I think the tech term for it is: data overspecification.

            But, for filtering searches all we need is to exclude posts without dollar numbers lower than max and higher than a min.

            • jwu56 on 18/12/2020 - 15:54

              @wisdomtooth: Or if we just used regex to find a dollar value and sorted that. That would be a little bit easier 😜

              • wisdomtooth on 01/01/2021 - 02:33

                @jwu56: Yeah, I do that with a regex search browser add-on, but it's a very poor substitute for a site search filter.

  • brisdaz on 24/12/2020 - 16:54

    Privacy breaches - How to prioritize? Where to post?

    I recently came across a comment which had confidential information inadvertently revealed which would allow the stealing of low-value (not cash). I reported it, notified the commenter but unfortunately didn't realize it had been public on the internet for just over a day.

    He also reported the comment as he could not delete as comments are only editable/deleted up to 60 minutes after posting.

    Thankfully OzBargain moderators were on the ball and it was deleted in under 30 minutes,

    I checked

    🕵🏽‍♀️Privacy Policy - OzBargain Wiki

    Is there a security email or something to communicate this besides Talk with a Moderator?

    Is there a security bounty for finding holes in Ozbargain?

    Lots of high-value transactions are done via Ozbargain Classifieds and it could be a gold mine anyway to hack the Ozbargain servers.

    I believe it's safe to post this comment as this is not public on the internet and you need an account to view this forum reducing risk.

    • Moderatorneil on 31/12/2020 - 00:06

      Is there a security email or something to communicate this besides Talk with a Moderator?

      Per the privacy policy you linked to

      Complaints about a privacy issue can be made by making a request in the Talk with a Moderator forum or by contacting us directly.

      This applies for not just privacy issues but any issues.

      Is there a security bounty for finding holes in Ozbargain?

      There isn't a security bounty policy but in the past we have rewarded individuals who have reported valid security issues. If you can outline the security issue you have discovered we'll then work out how we can compensate the reporter.

  • ely on 27/12/2020 - 22:50
    +2

    Copying from here, referring to the enormous discounted gift card table - which is full of very useful data but extremely hard to read, because most of the time when you're looking a row you can't see the headers to see what the values actually refer to!

    —

    Devs, not sure how to ping you, but sticky table headers would make that table vastly more usable and it's really straightforward(css-tricks.com); I literally use the dev tools to enable it every time I use that page just so that I can see which discounts apply to which retailers.

    IDK what your wiki software is, but it's probably possible to add a class to the table (e.g. sticky) and wire up something less fragile than this, but this is the rule I add.

    .sectionedit7 th { position: sticky; top: 0; }

  • Nalar on 29/12/2020 - 10:56

    Can the referrals link be put under the "pages' tab. I saw (and reported) a post in forum looking for a referral code, and I couldn't easily find the link to pass it along.

    Thank you

  • AustriaBargain on 04/01/2021 - 21:11
    +1

    I've got a suggestion about the affiliate links. They aren't enabled for logged in members, which is a solid policy that helps protect OZB. But what if OZB set up a second affiliate account for each site (Amazon, eBay, et al.) and for logged in users that second affiliate tag is applied. And 100% of the money from those second tags go to charity. I don't see why anyone would object to that. It has to be better than letting Amazon and eBay keep all the money from items bought after logged in users click the links. If all the money from logged in users went to a HIV or cancer charity or children's charity or something very wholesome then I don't see how anyone could complain or object. it might not be a great deal of money per day for users logged in, not as much as guests, but it'll add up to a whole lot of good being done after a few years.

    • Moderatorscotty on 05/01/2021 - 09:34

      I can see that it's a possible opt-in option for users, for those who don't want to use cashbacks.

    • brisdaz on 06/01/2021 - 20:08

      Love the thinking mate.

      Does it have to be charity though?

      Could it be to fund developer to implement features voted on by the community like mentioning users that's been asked for multiple times by multiple users over several years?

      More people are self interested rather then altruistic especially on a site like ozbargain.

  • Doovik on 06/01/2021 - 20:12

    Wheres the 2021 Thread?

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