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Why are my questions and deals voted for going down instead of up?

Jul 30, 2012 3:24 AM

I am new to the woot community, and my friend said that I need to be active in the community in order to reap the full benefit. The little tachometers that tell me how good/bad a job I'm doing of being active impose a challenge that I must accept. My OCD will not allow the tachs to drop below 100%, but no matter how much voting I do the questions and deals voted for tachs keep going down. Is there something that I am doing wrong?

robertleemartin512 robertleemartin512

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Give the system some time to update for the activity you are doing... Sometimes the graphs will go up later just to see whether your deals and questions are voted positively for. Don't worry about your reputation and the leaderboard, if you stay active posting deals and questions fairly often (couple times a month) you will be in good shape!

Also may I add welcome to the community, here is a link to an FAQ of sorts that will help you out here on the deals side of woot.

jsoko jsoko
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http://client01.chat.mibbit.com/?server=irc.rizon.net&channel=%23deals.woot

come on over to the deals.woot chat room. we have a room full of black triangles that have been doing this long enough to give advice on anything you might want (and a lot of advice you don't want).

welcome to deals.woot

moosezilla moosezilla
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Come on over to deals.woot chat and join us.

http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23deals.woot&server=rizon.mibbit.org

klynb klynb
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Thanks so much!

robertleemartin512 robertleemartin512
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Don't vote for/against every deal. Choose your battles wisely.

jsimsace jsimsace
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@robertleemartin512: if you are having issues with that link this thread gives more/better/different instructions
http://deals.woot.com/questions/details/5471bb55-bf48-4777-9adc-dba8ecac798a/eo-you-remember-this-week-is-different#2

moosezilla moosezilla
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There definitely is a lag factor, and in some cases, it's a matter of quality, not quantity, as well as timing.

djp519 djp519

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Not a farewell, just a forced redirect.

It's true, Local.Woot is no longer, but please don't despair.

Never-ending savings are still to be found on Deals.Woot each and every day, so come on in. Don't think of it as a time for tears. Think of it as a way to bring us all closer together under one roof.

Sorry

This is only for people who have bought woots

We restrict voting to users who have purchased something from one of the other Woot stores. It's not just because we want your money (which we do) - it's the best way to be sure all the votes are coming from real people and not spam-bots or phony accounts. The best way we can think of, anyway. For now.

You can always get voting rights by buying something from one of Woot's other sites:

Purchases through Deals.Woot don't count, because in that case you're not buying anything from us. And we don't have your account information for those purchases.

If you think you've bought something from Woot before and still can't vote, make sure you're logged in with the same account you used to buy from us.

Geez, why so negative?

You have to vote up more before you can vote down.

Don't get us wrong. Negativity has its place. And downvotes are just as essential as upvotes when it comes to making Deals.Woot a useful place to find deals.

But when your votes lean so heavily toward the dark side, we have to wonder. Go vote up a few things. Accentuate the positive for a little while. It'll do you some good, and it'll do the site some good, too. Then you can get back to dealing out the smackdowns, OK?

Too late, we all heard you!

Hmm... you're wanting to take your vote back?

Well, that's a bit tricky. See, we do a lot of stuff with your vote, using it to work out the popularity of what you voted for, compare that to all the other things voted on, tally up our leaderboard, work out your reputation. Someday we'll do a little cartoon showing just how hard your vote is working.

Anyway, taking votes back messes all that up, so we give you five minutes, in case you just mis-clicked. After that we've got to say no take-backs. Luckily, votes are free, so feel free to throw them around left and right wherever you see fit.