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I understand that choosing a winner at random is a hell of a lot easier, but at some point I feel that the people who actually post the deals on a deal site need to be rewarded. Frankly I am tired of joe shmoe with 0 posts winning all of the contests. I feel some consideration and advantage needs to be given to active members of the community - especially those who actually contribute by posting deals.

The biggest problem with sectioning off the entries is that if there are certain criteria for entering the contest, there may be exclusions to the people who meet them because of legal issues. Contests the way they are right now, open to virtually everyone, while might not be seen as "fair", they are the most effective way of keeping Cheapy out of any potential problems.

Originally Posted by Scrubking Frankly I am tired of joe shmoe with 0 posts winning all of the contests.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure most, if not all of the winners have been active posters.

Why should some get special consideration over others? Some might say that is favoritism. Generally speaking, "Ism's" are a bad thing.

I think part of the contest missions are to attract new users.

While I think we all hope for a long term CAGer wins the contect. I assume that any winner would become a loyal CAGer...

There's only so many deals out there, and even fewer people who can find them and post them quickly. Thats only a handful of people out of the thousands of CAGers on here. That's not fair and would probably lead to more flaming than what we've been accustomed to of late.

Originally Posted by magilacudy There's only so many deals out there, and even fewer people who can find them and post them quickly. Thats only a handful of people out of the thousands of CAGers on here. That's not fair and would probably lead to more flaming than what we've been accustomed to of late.

I have to agree here. I'll admit that I've never posted any deals. I've searched around before, but I've never really been in "the right place at the right time" so to speak, not to mention the fact that I don't have all that much time to do so, with school and work and all. Besides, as I understand it, the contest was "open to all" not "open to some".

I may not post here a lot but I do come and look at the forums and look at the deals and if I actually found a deal I would try to submit it. I can see what you mean though.

I wouldn't be averse to a special 'deal posters only' feature/thank-you of the board, but I think to keep the board open and inviting, most/all contests need to be open to the public. Registered users only, and I could *maybe* see a minimum message board post requirement [very minimal, like 10], but otherwise it becomes somewhat elitist. I also generally don't find any deals. You could argue that the people who find/post deals actually already are winners, because if they found the deal, if they wanted the game, they probably bought it, so their orders definitely wouldn't be cancelled or OOS.
Your basic point, however, of "some consideration and advantage needs to be given to active members of the community - especially those who actually contribute by posting deals", I can agree with, but I don't think that should be by allowing only them to enter contests.

I don't care who wins what, as long as they aint Amish, because those ers need to be taught a lesson.

I agree with everyone else. I also have never posted a deal, but it's not because I don't try to, or because I want to just leech off of everyone else's work.

Whenever I find a deal, I always do a search to make sure it hasn't been posted yet, and you know what? I ALWAYS find that deal already posted. I did post one time because I didn't find it in search, but it was promptly locked. Why? Because it was already posted! I guess I'm just too slow. :(

So what exactly would you consider "those who actually contribute by posting deals"? Someone who tries but is too slow? Someone who has posted 1 deal? Or you have to have posted a minimum of 10 deals? Gaming deals only, or anything? See, now you run the risk of people posting fake deals just so they can say "I posted a deal, I want in this contest. I can't help it if it wasn't true, my friend told it was true."

You sure do hate Amish JimmieMac!

If by any off-chance they won the contest they'd end up using the game discs as reflectors on their buggies anyway. Ban the Amish!

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CDs as buggy reflectors. Very funny. Very very funny.

Most of the ground has already been covered here, but I'll say this:

Deals aren't officially tallied, and who's to judge what's a valid deal post to qualify for the contest? I could go to the non-gaming deals forum and post the sale price of Natural Ice at my convienence store and say "GREAT DEAL, YMMV!"

Minimum post counts won't work either. You remember Spriggan and Antonio? We don't want that mess again...

Your heart's in the right place, but there's just not a feasable way of making it fair and airtight.

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I agree that those who post deals give more back to the site, but the statistics are just that not even close to a large percentage of people can possible put deal on here. Even if you are generous and say there are 100 (or maybe 200) worthwhile deals a week, then it's impossible for everyone to post one obviously.

Originally Posted by daphatty Generally speaking, "Ism's" are a bad thing.

Not when playing Street Fighter Alpha 3.

And from what I've seen, only Scrubking, Mr. Rhee, Defender and CheapyD (sorry if I missed anyone) are the primary active deal posters. That may be great for you 3 or 4 (obviously excluding CheapyD, it is his contest), but what about the other hundred thousand something CAG's?

Honestly, if I was in your position I'd probably say the same thing. After all that effort, I'd want some benefit or something. Don't tiptoe around it or deny it, just admit it. =P

Problem with rewarding the "deal posters" over everyone else, is it would start a flood of useless or "who cares" deals by people trying to qualify for the contests. Hell, anyone can troll Froogle for five minutes and post things they think are good buys just to get in on the spoils.

You guys are much more eloquent than I am.
Same train of thought, better words.