Deals.Woot

I know we collapse deals so this isn't as big a problem as it could be, but it is still annoying, especially the volume in this case.

@hobbit: I know! There are about 55 deals now in the past hour. I tattled too but not sure which method of notifying staff is best/quicker.

Here are some negative reviews I found of this company:

http://www.epinions.com/content_442015583876

http://www.resellerratings.com/store/VitaDigest

http://www.complaintsboard.com/bycompany/vitadigest-a73605.html

http://www.ripoffreport.com/computer-mail-order/vitadigest/vitadigest-do-not-receive-item-3a84x.htm

I don't know why but this makes me furious. They have some nerve doing this. I posted a comment on many of their deals saying not to buy from them and the links of complaints, but gave up. Where is the mega pew-pew-pew gun today?

edit: 76 in one hour! Holy crap!

Remember someone said he doeson't mind if retailers list all their deals from their website. So this is what -we- have to look forward to.

@mtrlgrl tattle button works fine. Posting here is a good way for us to vent about it though ;)

I noticed them last night when they posted a deal for male erm you know enhancement and this morning I saw a similar one for female you know enhancement. Oh plus the Anabolic Muscle enhancer.

I wonder if they are from China too, can we abuse them like we do the counterfeiters now?

2 cent suggestions

How about the following:

No new user can post more than 3 deals/day unless the account is >1 month old [that sounds generous], and/or

No new user can post more than 3 deals/day for the same domain name,

and

Require ALL Community Deals to be inputted, non-bot verified with CAPTCHA, and double-checked with email verification back to the user [forcing an emailed link of the deal to be clicked and A SECOND CAPTCHA] before its posted to the world. (I put this verification into a client's website and it "took down" all automated spam postings to ZERO.)

kind of funny when you think about it. I mean vitamins and supplements? Who would have thought?

I get the battery spamming and even the clothing spamming. But these people aren't even posting real pharamceuticals or any of that other stuff. These supplements look like the sort of thing you would buy at the gas station or some other odd out of the way place.

When I first saw this company's name, I thought of the I Love Lucy episode "Vitameatavegamin girl"

@hobbit: I typed too soon. Their baaaaaaaaack.

I don't know anything about programming websites or coding but isn't there some way to just block a user? Is there some program similar to the blocking of email that can be used?

... I'm also wondering where the pew-pew-pew gun is...? Hopefully Woot is able to do something a bit more drastic than the simple changing of passwords to block or limit this nonsense. This is getting obnoxious, even if we're lucky enough to enjoy the blessing of collapsing deals. As to the nature of this intrusion, it's oddly reminiscent of the controversial Shewee incident and ensuing conversations back before @catberthegreat left our ranks :)
http://deals.woot.com/deals/details/e40256c2-20e0-44be-817f-76e3dd79ec1b/shewee

I especially thought the Penis pump was hilarious!

@eneref: Seriously... that's why I killed a couple of my e-mail accounts a while back, especially the hotmail ones, since their filtering doesn't do quite as well as the gmail filters for me.

whispers I think it is gone.

@theoneill555: maybe.

Now if the counterfeiters would just go away!

This may sound a bit extreme, but if Woot has the power to track the IP addresses from which those bogus accounts are created, they could maybe block them entirely? I mean, that wouldn't necessarily work if our happy-spammy counterfeiters were particularly adept in net usage, but it may be worth a shot...
I promise I'm not a big advocate of "Big Brother" watching over all of us and controlling everything, but from everything I've seen, Woot staff has always been good to us if we've voiced any legitimate concerns. They even let us post such odd items as the... *#&%^@! for males, or the @$#)@! for females... Just not 50+ such items within an hour.

@hobbit: There are plenty of legitimate vendors/retailers in China, I'm sure, but doubtless there are also innumerable IP addresses... However, there is a chance that within the same vicinity there are some reasonable, English-capable Wooters. It's just a thought, but it does seem a bit drastic - hence my asking and not suggesting we brute-force China out, like Google did :)

@bwagner54: Uh... sorry, but I don't find underwear ads to be offensive. And seriously, if you let your kids surf the 'net unsupervised and are worried about underwear models, you need some serious soul-searching.

Just block images from the offending website in your browser settings (you DO know how to use browser controls to monitor your childrens' usage on the 'net, right? Right??) and be done with it.

Learn HOW to use the Internet before you complain that it's not tailored to suit only you.

@eneref: If you read @bwagner54's comments carefully, he's complaining not so much about "The Internet", but about how user content is handled on a specific shopping site (you may have heard of it); and specifically, the content from a particular user who, when the frequency and content of his postings came up for discussion, became belligerent.