[[help:voting_guidelines]]

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Voting Guidelines

Positive Vote No vote Report button Negative Vote
If the deal is good The deal doesn't apply to you. Incorrect Title The deal is not the cheapest available
If you are associated with the poster. Incorrect Description Defective Product.
You are a competitor of the poster. Out of Stock or Expired Major issues with retailer.
You dislike the OP's avatar. Should be posted to forums
You dislike the RRP of the product (not the actual price) SPAM
Misspelling
Incorrect URL.

Positive Vote

  • Vote positive if you feel the deal is good. This encourages the poster to share more deals as they know its appreciated.
  • Please refrain from voting deals that are not good deals but have a funny picture, good description or any other element that is not related to the deal itself.

If you are associated with the poster or company DON'T VOTE. Friends, family, employees, shareholders, media relations, developers, contractor, affiliate are not to vote on related deals. Infractions may lead to a ban and the post being revoked.

No Vote

  • If the deal doesn't apply to you, you don't like the company, or you want to leave a warning for people about the business or deal, you can leave a comment and then not vote.
  • If you have any association or relationship with the business or the dealings related to the offer, do not vote.

(eg employee, owner, built the website for them, supplier, in a relationship with someone in the business)

  • If you have any association or relationship with a competitor's business or organisation, do not vote.
  • If your reason is purely that you've been asked to vote by someone, do not vote.

REPORT Button

The Report button is an additional tool provided to all members to assist in quickly identifying inappropriate posts and comments.

The Report button can be found underneath each deal, forum post and comment. You will find a number of reasons that you can choose such as:

  • Duplicate
  • Sold Out
  • Expired
  • Affiliate/Referral
  • Illegal/Inappropriate
  • NSFW
  • Sockpuppeting
  • Spam

For more complex issues, use the Talk with a Moderator forum.

Negative Vote

Purpose:

  • To let others know about issues with the deal, merchant or product.

Result of negative vote(s):

  • If there are more negative votes than positive, the deal is hidden on new deals page & categories page for visitors and users with default settings.
  • All comments by the user who cast the negative vote are highlighted with a negative vote symbol.
  • If the negative votes are cast against a deal posted by a rep, this will increase the time period between their next subsequent post.

When negative votes are revoked:

  • The community casts a number of negative comment votes to any comment by the user casting the deal votes.
  • A moderator deems your vote to be invalid as it doesn't conform to voting guidelines.
  • If too many negative votes are revoked for a user, then this will result in the loss of negative voting abilities for 90 days.

If you spot an invalid vote:

  • Use the report button to notify a moderator.
  • Try not to take negative votes personally.

Appropriate uses of negative vote

  • Cheaper price elsewhere
    • Mention store or URL and price making sure to include shipping.
  • Defective product
    • The product has been recalled
    • Major issue with product in that it doesn't work the way it should.
  • Major issue with retailer

Inappropriate uses of negative vote

  • No explanation of the vote
    • Not a bargain.
    • Agree
    • SPAM
    • I dont like the deal
    • I dont think its a good deal
    • Ditto
    • lol
  • Incorrect or missing information in title or description
    • Requesting price in title.
    • Requesting shipping cost.
    • Mentioning RRP.
    • SPAMMY sounding title.
    • Misspelling or grammar issue.
    • Incorrect URL.
    • Listed as freebie.
  • An issue with the poster.
    • Disliking their avatar.
    • Disliking their comments or description.
  • Out of Stock.
  • Should have been posted in forums.
Last edited by neil on 2013/10/14 23:59