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How do disappearing deals, questions and comments affect our reps?

May 28, 2012 6:28 PM

I know this is a shallow question, and I shouldn't care, but I do. I had a number of high ranked deals and comments since the restart of the woot properties, and it makes me sad to see them all gone. Part of me wants to repost the ones I remember, but the other half doesn't want to waste the time if everything is this unstable. Anyone got any insight? This kind of instability has only happened once before that I remember, and I don't recall what the consensus was.

okham okham

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my-identity-is-tied-to-my-triangle = best tag ever.

gideonfrost gideonfrost
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If it was a terrible deal or question you posted, with lots of down votes, it will improve your rep by not being there. If it was a great question with lots of votes, you might see a slight drop, but unless you are a new user it will not be significant.

josefresno josefresno
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Good question..

It looks like the site reset about 2 hours ago and all of my latest up-votes disappeared at that time... I will have to check to see if my comments on the questions side also disappeared...

Is this Latest Change to the WOOTverse not ready for Prime Time???

Great tags by the way...
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hobbitss hobbitss
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Don't worry about it. The Woot gods can do/ anything they want. Life isn't fair, you just have to hope it is occasionally worthwhile.

nortonsark nortonsark
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@josefresno: It looks as though everything I've posted for the last 48 hours has disappeared and my rep has dropped a good bit. At this point I've lost my lovely black triangle and I'm feeling rather shallow for missing it so much. Ah, well. As @okham said, I'm hesitant to post any deals until the dust settles. Hopefully these growing pains will be resolved soon. I guess in the meantime I'll get off the interwebs and actually get something done at home.

belyndag belyndag
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@okham: I know! Someone else posted my question and is getting lots of upvotes. I'm just going away for a while (to look for a new identity).

If I can.

notanaardvark notanaardvark
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@josefresno: they were all good deals. It makes me sad.

Glad you guys are working on it though. Good luck.

okham okham
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@notanaardvark: If I see someone pop up with the identity @anaardvark, I'll know who it is :)

okham okham
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I lost four to six rep points since I posted early this morning to a now-deleted thread. I could care less, but some would say that's not at all insignificant.

xochiluvr xochiluvr
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I've quit posting deals all together. Not worth the effort. Admins: email me and let me know when it is fixed.

vistaseas vistaseas
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@okham: You are back to black and a 98 to boot...

hobbitss hobbitss
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@hobbitss: Where? I see 99, and one I went black, I never went back.

okham okham

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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.