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Have the triangle Items gotten out of control?

Dec 20, 2011 2:50 PM

Lots of triangle items being posted. I've put up a few myself.

hossdawg97 hossdawg97

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My thought is, we just bundle everything together with a #meme tag.

Not into shapes and pork and pirates? -meme

Problem solved.

drchops drchops
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yes. way out of control.

dgrimmer dgrimmer
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@bigreddogatl: Wrong Wal-Mart.

caffeine_dude caffeine_dude
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@magic cave: Again, and? The fact that good deals typically rise to the top and bad deals get slammed is a much better indication that deals.woot is a community-driven site than the fact that occasionally a section of the community decides the site should be rendered nearly useless. And cool that a staffer finds it fun. But those of us that want to... you know, actually USE the site don't find anything funny about the fact it's being clogged with garbage that renders the fresh and top deals (which I'd guess are the ones average users rely most on) completely useless.

You people also don't seem to get the fact that it's the week of Christmas... a time that... I dunno, people might WANT to actually shop and find things during? The crab and bacon stuff was pretty stupid and bad then, but this is Christmas, one of the biggest shopping times of the year. I mean, why not just flood the site with Rebecca Black & black triangle stuff next Black Friday? Not like people wanna shop then, either!

ninjamarion ninjamarion
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It's cute & all and very Wooty, but c'mon guys, not the week before Christmas. The theme has turned out 90% garbage gifts and it's just bad timing for those who are looking for last-minute presents.

minglet minglet
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I for one found the black triangle 'flash mob' to be a bit childish. Then again, I don't consider myself part of the 99% either.

sil40 sil40
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@lobstrain: @pyxientx: Kind of hilarious how both of these posts actually apply MORE to the black triangle crowd than the rest of us. It's not deals.woot's purpose to make things interesting for you (i.e. "HILARIOUS" memes filling the deals pages). It's here to be a deals site.

And "it's not just about YOU"? Exactly. You black triangle memers are just sitting here spouting about how funny it is and how if we don't want to deal with it, we can use the - tags. Which, you know, is completely making it about you. WE, the people trying to use the site for its intended purpose (deal-hunting), should have to go out of our way to use the - tags so that we don't have to see YOUR meme that does nothing but clutter and break the site, at the expense of the better filtering of the Top and Fresh tabs. Yet we're the ones being selfish? Despite us actually stopping to realize this effects not only US, but everyone that visits the site looking for deals.

ninjamarion ninjamarion
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I don't read responses posted by white triangles. Whatever!

whataworld whataworld
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@magic cave: And? Those previous trends are precisely what I was talking about with "these stupid trends" being stupid. It's stupid. This is a deals site, not a joke scavenger hunt, try to find relevant things site.

And until a bit after posting that, no, I wasn't. As I'm sure many users of the site aren't. Even if it was publicized more, users of the site shouldn't have to go out of their way to accomplish the main purpose of the site. Not to mention it's not as functional a being able to browse regularly (you can search most votes, but that mostly brings up stuff that's long dead due to being posted months or years ago. If you try to search by most votes on the Fresh tab, you then get all this stupid triangle and other trend crap cluttering it up. So yeah, you guys are breaking the website for something that's not even funny and got old about an hour into the crab trend.

ninjamarion ninjamarion
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@magic cave: I'm not worked up over this at all. I've learned as soon as I see a few of a themed item, I might as well close the site and not even bother that day. However, that's precisely the point, and hence my pointing out the hypocrisy of the "it's not about YOU" posts above. I'm complaining about this because of all the other people it affects. I'm broke currently. I'm not doing any shopping this week. It's not gonna affect me one bit. But it does affect a large portion of the people that would like to actually find deals and shop for Christmas.

And really? "There are literally thousands of sites you can go shop on"? That's what we're going with? "If you don't like this site being made useless so us few can amuse ourselves with memes, leave"? Deals.woot is such a great community, that it suggests people leave if they want to actually use the site? Do you not see how stupid that is? You guys are driving away potential users. With no benefit to the site. That's a bad thing.

ninjamarion ninjamarion
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I can't believe I am doing this. Okay. 0000douchbags0000! This site is a business, not a place to come and "tag" as this is essentially what you are doing when you put stupid POS sites with themes like black triangles. You, as one other user posted, essentially render the site useless. I thoroughly enjoy wooting until some moron decides to run a theme and ruin the site for a couple of days.

peregrinari peregrinari
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Oh, and for those of you that have the "well if you don't like it don't look" attitude and tell me too exclude triangles to actually use the site through a search feature? Yeah....No.... Not worth the effort to curtail some childish pranks. So, in essence you are losing Amazon and their partners or not partners my business. I'm already on the fence about using woot these days as it's become a useless clearinghouse for Amazon. I only stick around for the occasional "deal" (which just usually means I am lazy and its a good enough deal to buy it and not have to deal with crowds etc.). This kind of behavior actually makes me want to use Woot even less. Childish nerds with nothing better to do than "tag" websites.

peregrinari peregrinari
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You can never have too many black triangles. Half the fun is trying to post something that hasn't been posted yet, its a scavenger hunt.

tiamat114 tiamat114
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People whine too much.

whine (hwn, wn)
v. whined, whin·ing, whines
v.intr.
1. To utter a plaintive, high-pitched, protracted sound, as in pain, fear, supplication, or complaint.
2. To complain or protest in a childish fashion!
3. To produce a sustained noise of relatively high pitch:

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