Deals.Woot

@shrdlu: When I searched the questions, I only saw this suggestion in other threads that weren't dealing specifically with this, so I thought it best to give it its own home.

It would be easy to create a fly-by-night website, put up a fake deal page and by the time people realize it, the website is gone, shuttered, and all a purchaser might have to show for it is a stolen credit card number.

There are plenty of trustworthy sites, too. (Dailycheckout.com seems to be going out of their way to provide some good service.)

Woot definitely needs to separate themselves from the actual sale site.

It also might be nice, but maybe impossible, for experience users to be able to turn off this setting under our account page if we are logged in, if we are required to physically click on the acknowledgement of leaving the site. If it ran in the same style as the sellout warning then I feel no need to turn it off. I'm saying all this because I like to open multiple deals simultaneously in different tabs and clicking through for each and everyone would be an inconvenience.

@davidgreen7373: Checkbox ++

@fosterscool: I'd start a thread on which sites are, or are not good, but places like that just have a way of moving around. The Reputation thing that Deals had initially sounded like a good way of saying that this Deal could be trusted, and that Deal you should be careful of, but it's just way too easy to get. It's one step away from being meaningless.

I could even start a thread that said these are the Deal posters that I trust, but that's also a moving target (and not really as good an idea as it sounds).

No, I really think that Deals needs to have that intermediate step, probably ASAP.

I know I'm going to a third-party site, so I prefer not to have the extra intermediate page. It would get annoying with all the clicking I do.

If this goes through, I'd like to see an option to turn it off.

@lavikinga: You have to wait until it goes off the page to leave these little bookmarky things. You copied this from me (although @wootvan and @hobbit have both found me). This is a good trick, expect for those items that disappear into the cloud.

On the other hand, I don't usually bookmark things that made popular on the Question side, since (so far) there's only four pages of Popular, while the number of things I've commented on, on the Question side, is seventeen pages, and rapidly approaching eighteen. Perhaps for you it's more even.

@lavikinga: Said it before, but here goes:

I don't sleep much. I'm retired. It's winter, and cold outside. I still think of this as a beta test.

Besides, right now, it's very entertaining. I'll get bored, and wander off. Or not.

If we do make this feature can we have an option in the user settings that those of us who aren't idiots can choose not to be subjected to it?

@jokofoto: It can be just like the initial arrival on deals, where there's a page that obscures, and to not see it again, you just check the box. Easy to do. EASY. Hopefully someone from Staff will consider this excellent suggestion, and think about implementing it.

My distaste for some people's complete lack of common sense makes me want to throw these people to the gaping maws of the wolves, but my pathetic, weak sense of compassion makes me wish to protect these unfit individuals from their rightful Darwinian doom, mastication in the jaws of the stronger and more clever.

But, um, yeah an intermediate "Now leaving Deals.Woot, suckas!" page would be a valued addition, with an option to disable if we are smart enough to understand what's going on around us.

@scyld: You know, you've only been hanging around a short while, and you've managed to say something snarky on everything you've touched. Cut it out. You want to take out your bad day on someone, find another place to do it.

If you were actually a Scylding, you'd show a bit more class.