Too many front page deals

A suggestion - cut down on the huge number of front page deals and only post the truly exceptional ones, like it used to be done back then.

so u are mad that there are good deals ?

no way I like front page deals--especially around the holiday shopping season

The front page should be reserved for exceptional deals/slick deals. If you want good deals, then just go to the Hot Deals forum. There is way too much clutter on the front page now and diluting the "slick deals" aspect.

Quote from GunSharp : The front page should be reserved for exceptional deals/slick deals. If you want good deals, then just go to the Hot Deals forum. There is way too much clutter on the front page now and diluting the "slick deals" aspect.

just because you don't like a deal doesn't mean it shoudn't be on the front page. What is your definition of "exceptional deals/slick deals"

I agree. I've seen some front page deals that never would have made it in past months. The standards seem to have been lowered but maybe this is just for the Christmas season?

its been posted before both in the lounge, and here. quick summary:
things are fp'd after community reaction. they're the ones that really drive what gets on there or not.
the amount on the fp is reflective to the amount of deals posted. as the site grows the amount that get fp'd grow.

we've made things to make it a little easier to follow the deals on there (ie new deals since last visited/ the fire icon for really hot deals). if you have additional ideas we're always happy to listen

How about increasing the thumbs-up threshold in order to get on the front page? Or only front paging the top X deals of the day. That way when people come on the main site, they won't see a huge wall of text. People looking for deals always go on the forums anyways so there's really no need to put all the decent/good deals on the main page.

For every person that says there are too many FP deals, there will be someone that complains that there aren't enough.

Quote from Q-Bert : For every person that says there are too many FP deals, there will be someone that complains that there aren't enough.

we can't satisfy everyone. And as arj said, as the number of people grow on this site, so too does the number of FP deals, especially around the holidays. Most people appreciate the increased number of deals, because contrary to belief, many guests just go to the home (front) page and not the forums. Deals around this time are so short-lived anyway so it's important to have a variety of deals to make up for the expired ones. And the community decides the hotness of the deals, not us, and from what I can see just clicking on the first few FP deals, the first deal is as good as the next, so it's not like the quality of deals has degraded just because we have been posting more of them.