Deals.Woot

There might have been a lot of Woot-off spillover. Also, the site is growing which attracts more of both good and bad. It's not like Woot or Shirt.Woot with only one item per day to snipe at--lot of targets here.

I'll admit I made a sort of snarky reply in this thread,

http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/a7dc3714-c445-4162-abd5-2a8dc01d9cca/status-of-delivery#2

but I think it's time for people to take responsibility and investigate before asking for help.

I do think it's worse than it has been. I see so many people trying to score points in some sophomoric kind of take down, where if they just say enough rude and tasteless things, somehow they'll gain points. Except this isn't a bar, and most of us aren't laughing. It doesn't take many to make it seem like it's everywhere, either. We've had a few where @hobbit has even tattled because what had been said was just over the line.

I think that some of this may be woot off related, and a bit more may be the continual dumping of sellout folk here, rather than just making deals a brief transition. No (before someone misreads me), I do NOT mean that people from sellout are a group of low lifes who have spoiled our little paradise, but rather that those who were already a bit borderline are taking it out on things here, where they might have dumped that same visceral spew over on the forums in sellout.

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Well I just found this site this week and I love it. Of course everything isn't for met but I have bought a couple of good items this week. THANKS GUYS!!! Keep up the good work. :)

See... I completely disagree here. If you see a 'deal' posted that's not a good deal, I think you should say so. If it's cheaper somewhere else, that's supporting data for why it's not a good deal. Just posting a new deal for the same item but cheaper doesn't always get seen, and I find it nice if I click on a deal to see comments about the overall validity of the deal in question -- both good AND bad.

I don't think it's 'hating' to say, "This isn't a good deal. I saw it cheaper at X." I think that's JUST what the comments section is for.

@eneref: I think phrasing has a lot to do with it. you are right if there is a better deal at another retailer fine, but again like shrdlu said post it, don't just point out the person's deal isn't a deal. Although it is also relative i recall early on when some pen or something was posted and it was 100.00 or so the deal was actually posted by the owner of the website, I did ask How is this a deal because I couldn't ever imagine paying more than 30.00 for the item. It was also because I wanted information on this new revolutionary product.

Oh and same with some item that sanitized pens and pencils.

@shrdlu: and I think alike a lot scary. I also find it unpleasant when someone goes into a deal that might only be interesting to a few in a specific region and tells the deal poster to not post that type of deal again, even though there were quite a few of us who loved it. The deal poster was a new member too. If I had been the deal poster and been told that I wouldn't come back.

@lavikinga: You are correct on manners. I think that those of us who are thick-skinned have an easier time of it, but rudeness actually bothers me more when it's directed against others, anyway. It actually bothers me more to see rude behavior on the Deals side, because that is often the first (and only) thing a new visitor sees. It is also (as @hobbit said) sad to see it directed against people who are just testing the waters.

I don't know whether woot staff is light-handed, or just plain overwhelmed. No one can be everywhere, read every comment, and dispense justice with an even hand. Although it's not as crazy as it was during Black Friday (the site gets about 1/4 of the visitors as it did during that first week out of beta), it would still be tough for a few people to try and keep up with the activity of tens of thousands. It's why they depend on us to help.

....con't should be posted and then whenever someone says something tasteless, snarly, rude, etc. a link should be posted for that user.

I could go on, but I have things to do.

Have a good one!

@mbrugnoni: I sat here for a handful of minutes trying to remember which Conan movie she might have appeared in, and then it dawned on me...jeesh.

I don't suppose there could be a time out corner for accounts belonging to those really obnoxious people, could there?

@lavikinga: I vote for a time out corner!

But Does It Work With A Mac?

I liked a comment I read the other day. Someone had posted complaining that some site's sign-up asked "where did you hear about us" and didn't have an "other" space for deals.woot. Someone else responded that they consider the folks on here to be friends, so they marked the "heard about it from a friend" box. That's the kind of online communities I want to be a part of.