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Should each listing in "Similar Deals" indicate how long ago it was posted?

I ask because quite often the "Similar Deals" that pop up are, by deals.woot standards, ancient and often expired.

"Similar Questions" usually contain timeless information and a date there might dissuade someone from checking out an answer that has been posted, or posted over and over, or posted over and over and over.
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I'd still like to see expiration dates made available for deal posters.

by wootvan
asked 2 years ago

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Both of these would be helpful!

I click on the similar deals and, if expired, tattle on them. If they could expire on their own, so much the better. Of course, knowing old pricing is sometimes good for historical purposes (i.e. is it truly a good deal, or just the best price you found at the moment?)

We had a pretty good discussion on self-expiring a while back (http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/ee351649-4d2e-4ecd-b3ed-e502a20cd1fd/feature-request-expiration-date-on-deals#13) and even then, some folks pointed out that the issue had been raised before that...

heymo
2 years ago

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I noticed the last time I was checking something that the oldest deal was on top and the most recent deal was on the bottom. I would be nice if they could flip that and the most recent deal could be at the top of the similar deals list.

I am still an advocate of having an expiry date in the deal info box somewhere to help staff out, but staff seems to want to expire deals themselves so we need to help them out by reporting them as we find them.

hobbit
2 years ago

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@hobbit: Actually from what I've seen the sort-order for searches is quite mysterious. It isn't just oldest to newest, and it isn't just most votes to least.

Ya' know, I've been meaning to create a new post about this for a while anyway. I think I'll do it now.

anotherhiggins
2 years ago

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@anotherhiggins: that was just on the similar deals. on searches I just have to do a search and then click recent to see anything new. I haven't looked closer but I do wonder if the search is looking at tags first then what might be IN the description, and I responded on your other question too, although I didn't quite GET what your searches did.

hobbit
2 years ago

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@hobbit: Similar Deals are indeed weighted in the quasi order of tags, website, title, description, user, etc

So tags will be slightly boosted over content in the description to make the deal more "similar"

josefresno
2 years ago

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I'd like it if the RIP ones weren't included in that list at all. Or at least dim them so we know they're RIP'd.

thunderthighs
2 years ago

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@thunderthighs: Well, that was weird. I refreshed the page, you had two votes for the comment, I refreshed it again, back to one (so I voted, and made it go back to two).

I agree with part of your statement. I like the idea of most recent being at the top of the list, and agree wholeheartedly that tombstoned deals should be greyed out, but disagree on them not showing. If someone posted whatever it is that's pretty much the same as yours, and they did it YESTERDAY, and then it was tombstoned, you're going to want to put that in as a link on your deal, so as not to be deleted as a duplicate.

The greyed out idea is a winner, though.

shrdlu
2 years ago

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@thunderthighs: I agree with dimmed out, but still clickable, and I STILL think most recent should be at the top of the similar list. Because sometimes that Similar deal on the list is the duplicate deal.

hobbit
2 years ago

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I'd rather expired deals not show up in the similar deals list. Staff wouldn't RIP a live, working deal as a duplicate of an expired deal, would they?

chris12345
2 years ago

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I'd like to see dates in the similar deals, and an expiration date field when you're posting. Often something is a 1-day deal, the poster should be able to set it up for automatic RIP.

sfeitler
2 years ago

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@chris12345: but not all similar deals are the same, or maybe I didn't read your comment right. Expired deals might have useful information, like this product is junk don't buy it, or this retailer is a bad retailer so similar deals showing up that are expired can be useful for that reason.

hobbit
2 years ago

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@hobbit: You're right. I didn't think of that.

chris12345
2 years ago

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