How can we improve our Sickdeal site?

[kapildev]

Hi Mr. Slickdeal,

You are doing a wonderful contribution for external communities. We are all very happy about this site. Many of us may be addicted to this site.

I have some suggestion to improve your site.

a) Allow GUI images to display along with the deals (i.e. Embedding image not attachment)

b) Classify all hot deals under different categories such as PC, Networking, and Garments etc.

c) Many of our valuable associates are either terminated or banned or Left SD permanently because of poor judgment by MOD's on warning system.

Last week I saw a guy who was with SD for quite sometime had openly challenged MOD's to ban him. In this case he did not loose anything. We and SD had lost a valuable member.

You need to intervene and resolve a conflict. When you find a person openly challenging SD that means there is some seriousness in him. I mean that he is a serious member who is not happy with MOD's or few of your policies.

In such case you would have mentored and coached him to change his attitude. Many times it has been seen that you or MOD's will throw him/her out from this site.
He will definitely comeback again despite of your strict tracking mechanism. They will change the PC, MAC address, IP Address and other details which you may tracking before allowing him access to SD.

They will comeback with much negative attitude and will act as a slow poison. I saw a message on SD site recently that SD quality has gone down. People are using this forum to post all Junks, which is true.

You fulfill your dream and make us to fulfill our deals.

Bye & Bowl
KapilDev(Alias)

[ywc]

since this is posted in a forum as opposed to being a private message (thought it sounds like one), i'll take the liberty of posting a response:

a) images have been disabled in all deal discussion forums to speed up page load times. is there a particular reason why you would want to clutter deal discussion with images?

b) i would very much like to see a category system implemented as well.

c) what is the member that you are speaking of? thinly veiled praises don't say much about the value of this member's contribution.

if this person "openly challenged MOD's [sic] to ban him" as you say, then wouldn't that be considered a request?

as for "mentor[ing] and coach[ing] him to change his attitude", i'd like you to note that moderators of this site are not babysitters.

i suggest you take time and energy to explain your statements, otherwise there isn't any real substance to what you're talking about.

You fulfill your dream and make us to fulfill our deals.


huh?

[arjunsr]

first about images, its to protect people still on dialup/accesing on pda's/cellphones. its on in the everything else forums, but past that we like to keep the site streamlined.

second while some people like organization into types of deals, others just like to see all deals. in any given day there are about 20-40 new deals. i have it set to show me 26 threads per page, and that's plenty to see all new deals. of course i'm on the site more than the average user :)

finally about people getting banned. Most of the time people don't know the full story behind anyone's banning. we do it mainly to keep the privacy of the person banned. We have our reasons, and that's enough. no need to explain ourselves, or muddy the fileds. there are conversations held throughout pm's, im's, and other factors most don't know about.

Talking back to the mods isn't an instant ban, but it depends on how its done. Rarely has it been a civil disagreement, its always been you guys suck and lets see how much i can do that's against the rules.

We aren't here to babysit anyone. If you do something agianst the rules, we take action. If we have reasons to believe you will do more stuff against the rules, we aren't going to just wait for you to screw up.

[Optimus Prime]

The picture issue has been discussed, so I won’t say what has already been said.

But I would reiterate what arjunsr and ywc have stated in order to further clear the air:
1) We aren’t babysitters, and I honestly do believe that some members see us as one.
2) We aren’t paid. We all moderate out of the goodness of our hearts. We are logged in here probably more than the average member, constantly looking out for other members & people who choose to disregard the rules. It’s not as easy as it looks, but someone has to do it.
3) If I am thinking of the person you are talking about in regards to asking to be banned, he wasn’t. A post was made from someone asking to be banned & he logged off right after the post was made.
4) The warning system works. The only time it can work against a member is when the member goes against the rules. You break a rule that you agreed to follow upon becoming a member here, you are notified & the proper action is taken. You continue to break the rules, you will continue to receive the appropriate warnings & actions from the moderators.
5) If you see “junk” posted, Mod Alert the thread & it will be handled. People believe that the moderators go through each individual thread. We don’t. If you don’t flag it & let us know about it, we may never see it. Not to mention, it gives documentation of the alert, which member alerted us, and the link.

Finally, if you have a problem with the board in any way, I suggest you let Mr. SlickDeals know.

Coupon & Freebies/Magazine Moderator,
OP

[kapildev]

My Dear Arjunsr & Other Mods,

a)

I work on Information technology industry since last 10 years and I would not agree on your explanation on "Images, its to protect people still on dialup/accessing.." . I can debate on this if necessary.

SD has to move ahead with technological improvements. The current technology what SD uses is 10 years old technology. Images are no more heavy weight component for any page.

How many users uses PDA/Cellphone to browse a deal is a million dollar question. PDA/Cellphones users should access SD via different protocol.

b) I know MOD's are people like us who are given xtra responsibility to control the site. Banning a user is easy but making him to realize his mistakes and not to re-iterate the mistakes is something only few Mod's can do.

My friend "babysitting" is not mentoring or coaching. You may need to understand the real benefit of mentoring. You may use yahoo search to get the real definition of mentoring.

If I would be you, I would not have thrown out any one because of silly reasons. There is a polite way to handle the situation. If you would not handle the situation properly then you would be inviting a killer person to SD. He will definitely comeback with a killing attitude.

Had you been a cop, you would have understood my points.

[Optimus Prime]

b) I know MOD's are people like us who are given xtra responsibility to control the site. Banning a people or use is easy but making him to realize his mistakes are something only few Mod's can do. ...

...If I would be you, I would not have thrown out any one because of silly reasons. There is a polite way to handle the situation. If you would not handle the situation properly then you would be inviting a killer person to SD. He will definitely comeback with a killing attitude.

But sometimes, it takes the memeber, who violated the rule, to understand that they can't do "that". Sometimes, the memebers don't care & keep violating the rules. That's when politness needs to take a back seat & moderating & taking control come into play.

Banning is a last resort. I think you are looking at it as the moderators having fun and playing with their powers. That is not true at all.

Its' not up to the moderators to ban someone, but more on the behavior of the memebers. If they cannot behave themselves, do not follow the rules, and continue to misbehave after warnings & PMs, then I beleive that they brought that last resort upon themselves.
Had you been a cop, you would have understood my points.
huh?

[arjunsr]

you live in an idealistic world. mentoring sounds great but in pretty much all cases where someone has been banned, they've been given tremendous leeway to change, explain themeselves and have been welcomed back after there initial banning (bans are usually temprorary, and if after the initial ban hasn't gotten through, it becomes permanent).

like i said before, you haven't seen what we do when we consider someone to be banned. is usually done with input from other mods. we put up with a lot of crap in order to give people a fair shake, when we could easily just ban people and be done with it.

we aren't ban happy, we resort to it only as final desperation.

[snipe]

My Dear Arjunsr & Other Mods,

a)

I work on Information technology industry since last 10 years and I would not agree on your explanation on "Images, its to protect people still on dialup/accessing.." . I can debate on this if necessary.

SD has to move ahead with technological improvements. The current technology what SD uses is 10 years old technology. Images are no more heavy weight component for any page.

How many users uses PDA/Cellphone to browse a deal is a million dollar question. PDA/Cellphones users should access SD via different protocol.
I truly hope you are not serious. Just because the technology exists does not mean it is beneficial to each and every situation.

Overloading a website with unnecessary images is inefficient. What images are so crucial that they must be seen in-line with ones post? Hyperlinks are allowed, attachments are allowed, and both are used quite often. Images are a click away. This keeps loading times for users with slower connections (yes they still exist) down as images are viewed at ones discretion and it keeps those who do use alternate methods of browsing (pda, cellphone, etc..) the ability to browse problem free.

So how does including an image in-line really do anything other than hinder users who may not meet your standard of technology?

As YWC already stated, what do we gain; what is so important it must be posted in-line as opposed to hyperlinked?

[lowpro]

I just came across an interesting fact kapildev....it seems that when I cross referenced your user name and your IP it came back with a few user names..Umm yeah that technology is availble as you might know. One of the user names that caught my eye was one by the name ikdash....ikdash requested that her account be closed because she was issued a warning because she posted a referral link, which isn't allowed on SD.

In fact here is a copy of that warning and lkdash's response.

This is the link i got in my email, which says that you can send that to your friends or collegues who want to earn by hiting web.

I donot know if that is referral.

If you can't remove the waning, I request you to delete my account(i.e. lkdash).

Thanks,
Laxmi



Quote:
"

Originally Posted by lowpro
Dear lkdash,

You have been warned for one of your posts, which violated the Forums Rules.

The reason you have been warned is because Linking to sites with the poster's referral tag. (Warning Type = Referral (Linking)), for which you have been given 4 point(s).

The admin/moderator who warned you, entered this comment:
=======================================
Please refrain from posting referral links.
=======================================

The post for which you are warned can be seen here. A copy of your post is below:
---------------------------------------
Here is also a good link you get $10 while you sign up!

http://XXXXXXX.com/members/index.cgi?lkdash
---------------------------------------

Your total Warning Level at the moment is: 4 point(s).

If you reach the maximum of 10, you will be banned from the Forums, for 7 days.

To see details about all the warnings you have received, please click here.

Please reply back if you have a dispute.

A little suspicious wouldn't you say....

[kapildev]

I had shared my views. It's upto Mr. Slickdeal, Mod's and users like or dislike my ideas.

I always go with analytics.

If some one explain me

1) How many users left the SD before 10 warnings? I mean 10 warning is a ban how many left SD by having less than 10 warnings & fighting with mods.

2) Has the warning system really brings more control over users?

3) How many innocents ("I accept" to SD rule members) are warned and left SD after first warning. 99% users signs up without reading the complete rules of forum.


There are quite a few parameters which I could share over a period of time, so that you can measure warning system effectively.

[luxuryoils]

My friend "babysitting" is not mentoring or coaching. You may need to understand the real benefit of mentoring. You may use yahoo search to get the real definition of mentoring.
May I mentor you? We might both learn and it would be a Blaze ing experience.

[lowpro]

Whoa...I found another username SickDeals123 with the same IP that was also banned. :rolleyes:

[Optimus Prime]

I had shared my views. It's upto Mr. Slickdeal, Mod's and users like or dislike my ideas.

I always go with analytics.

If some one explain me

1) How many users left the SD before 10 warnings? I mean 10 warning is a ban how many left SD by having less than 10 warnings & fighting with mods. That 2 different things, fighting with a Moderator vs. 10 warnings (depending on what those 10 warnings are from). Not to mention, warnings become deactive after 30 days. Ban after 10 warnings only gives that memeber a 7 day ban. If they continue to screw up, then we may discuss pemantly removing that person from here. After the temp. ban, it's up to the member, if they want to return or not

2) Has the warning system really brings more control over users?
Yes

3) How many innocents ("I accept" to SD rule members) are warned and left SD after first warning. 99% users signs up without reading the complete rules of forum. Who knows. I've gotten a warning, and Tada, I'm still here. Also, I don't believe that memebers that post Ipod/TV referral posts are innocent. And most of those people are one post wonders anyways.


There are quite a few parameters which I could share over a period of time, so that you can measure warning system effectively.
I think Lowpro pointed that out to everyone.

[kapildev]

a) Yes, I am LKDASH. This is the fact Mr. Lawpro. I don’t respect you for any reason as you don’t have any judgment power.

b) Second thing is tracking IP address and other information is a criminal act. You may be punished in the court of law. You will escape as who knows your real name. You will grounded SD for your Idiotic act. By your approach 1000 of user will suffer.

Even if you track the IP and other information, you should not disclose it to public. Who will punish you for this mistake?

[snipe]

... I mean 10 warning is a ban ...
Exactly. 10 warnings is a ban, not 1, 2, 5, or 7. Only 10. Thus the warning "system". It allows a moderator to warn a user that their actions are going against the rules and encourages them to rethink their methodologies.

If the user rejects the warning and decides to repeat their offense, then another warning will be given up until the time of banning. I know many online forums where if you step out of line, your banned. No questions, no second chances, you're gone.

Slickdeals realizes people don't always read the rules, and they often do things unknowingly. Thus the warning system was put into operation. It allows the moderators to give the user chances to rectify the situation.

A warning in and of itself is meaningless. It states that you went against the rules and encourages you to fix your mistake. Only when the number of warnings has reached 10 is when there is a consequence, and as stated that is a ban. After 30 days have passed said warning will drop off and you start fresh. Just because you have a little red-warning line of text under your name doesn't mean you must leave. It is just there as a reminder that you shouldn't repeat said offense.

If you take issue with the warning contact the moderator who issued it and explain your side. If you were innocent/misunderstood in the case then the warning will generally be removed. Not that it makes much of a difference, as said above, the warning expires 30 days from issuance.

So really anyone who complains about warnings is just being silly. It is simply a system put in place to give the users a chance to right their wrongs. Very much like a 3-strike, multiple-chance, operation.

[Optimus Prime]

Even if you track the IP and other information, you should not disclose it to public.
1) He didn't post your IP address, please calm down.
2) You made the inital decision to address this issue in public, so here we are.

[kapildev]

I know the reality is bitter so all MODS wants to save their position. Very good tactic.

I would not fight with you MOD's for any invalid reason as I donot have time to fight with you all. Arjunsr had rasied some valuable points and I answered him.

[lowpro]

yawn....hmmm i wonder what the username items4listing was going to be for..

[Optimus Prime]

I know the reality is bitter so all MODS wants to save their position. Very good tactic.
Hence the phrase "Moderating Team"

[arjunsr]

a) Yes, I am LKDASH. This is the fact Mr. Lawpro. I don’t respect you for any reason as you don’t have any judgment power.

b) Second thing is tracking IP address and other information is a criminal act. You may be punished in the court of law. You will escape as who knows your real name. You will grounded SD for your Idiotic act. By your approach 1000 of user will suffer.

Even if you track the IP and other information, you should not disclose it to public. Who will punish you for this mistake?
you ever notice that it says ip logged? its for this exact reason. we keep track of who's at the site for cases like this.should be careful lots of sites do this. And where did we disclose it to the public? we said through ip we noticed. we didn't give anyone your ip address.

another thing about people leaving after their first warning. that is THEIR choice. we can't help if they broke the rules because by THEIR choice they didn't read the rules. what happens if you get a warning? you can just make sure you don't break the rules again. its pretty simple. pts will expire in a month and you can chalk it up to a learning experience.

AS to teh sotry about lkdash, you didn't really give us a chance to mentor you. you gave an ultimatum delete the warning or delete your account. lowpro tried to tell you you don't have to leave, but you wanted to leave

[lowpro]

I knew there was a good reason to archive messages...

Hi Admin,

Recently one of your agent has disabled my account,
indeeed i asked him to do that.

The fact is your forum is biased in terms of issuing
WARNING.

For the reason which i never knew, he warned me and
latter disabled me.

Anyway thanks much for allowing me to browse, post and
user your forum.

[kapildev]

you ever notice that it says ip logged? its for this exact reason. we keep track of who's at the site for cases like this.should be careful lots of sites do this. And where did we disclose it to the public? we said through ip we noticed. we didn't give anyone your ip address.

another thing about people leaving after their first warning. that is THEIR choice. we can't help if they broke the rules because by THEIR choice they didn't read the rules. what happens if you get a warning? you can just make sure you don't break the rules again. its pretty simple. pts will expire in a month and you can chalk it up to a learning experience.

AS to teh sotry about lkdash, you didn't really give us a chance to mentor you. you gave an ultimatum delete the warning or delete your account. lowpro tried to tell you you don't have to leave, but you wanted to leave
AS to teh sotry about lkdash, you didn't really give us a chance to mentor you. you gave an ultimatum delete the warning or delete your account. lowpro tried to tell you you don't have to leave, but you wanted to leave

I disagree with you on this. I will not give an explanation.

[kapildev]

"Kapildev" is my new Avatar.. Ask ArjunSR for it's meaning.

[snipe]

a) Yes, I am LKDASH. This is the fact Mr. Lawpro. I don’t respect you for any reason as you don’t have any judgment power.

b) Second thing is tracking IP address and other information is a criminal act. You may be punished in the court of law. You will escape as who knows your real name. You will grounded SD for your Idiotic act. By your approach 1000 of user will suffer.

Even if you track the IP and other information, you should not disclose it to public. Who will punish you for this mistake?
You are mighty naive for being in information technology for 10 years.. :rolleyes:

Every time your computer connects to the internet and is issued an IP address you are logged. Every time you send packets of information from your IP Address to another you are logged. Every website, every telnet, every ftp, every chat session, every connection is logged. This is for many different reasons and done at the sole discretion of the provider you are connecting to. In this case Slickdeals logs all the IP Addresses of its users. This way it can tell if a user signs up multiple times in order to cause problems and for various other private reasons. There is nothing illegal about it. The courts often issue a warrant demanding a private entity (such as an ISP or website) to provide copies of these logs so that law enforcement officials may use them as evidence.

So what ever you are babbling on about.. you should really have a better understanding of before you submit it.

[snipe]

I disagree with you on this. I will not give an explanation.
Then what exactly is the point of this conversation?

[lowpro]

AS to teh sotry about lkdash, you didn't really give us a chance to mentor you. you gave an ultimatum delete the warning or delete your account. lowpro tried to tell you you don't have to leave, but you wanted to leave

I disagree with you on this. I will not give an explanation.

really? Just for kicks and giggles i'll remind you of our message exchanges...



"I would rather prefer to quit your forum than having a waning message displayed under my user id.

As i already told you that your warning system is biased.

Thanks,
Laxmi

to which i replied



Laxmi, it is up to you what you want to do with your account. I am not asking you to leave. You received a warning because the link you posted is a referral link. The warning points will expire after 30 days..You let me know what you want to do.

Lowpro

In Conclusion: I went ahead and closed his/her account as requested.

[Optimus Prime]

In Conclusion: I went ahead and closed his/her account as requested.
Then why is this being discussed, or will that not be explained? :rolleyes:

[kapildev]

You are mighty naive for being in information technology for 10 years.. :rolleyes:

Every time your computer connects to the internet and is issued an IP address you are logged. Every time you send packets of information from your IP Address to another you are logged. Every website, every telnet, every ftp, every chat session, every connection is logged. This is for many different reasons and done at the sole discretion of the provider you are connecting to. In this case Slickdeals logs all the IP Addresses of its users. This way it can tell if a user signs up multiple times in order to cause problems and for various other private reasons. There is nothing illegal about it. The courts often issue a warrant demanding a private entity (such as an ISP or website) to provide copies of these logs so that law enforcement officials may use them as evidence.

So what ever you are babbling on about.. you should really have a better understanding of before you submit it.
You are wrong. My friend I am behind firewall. My company issues me a new IP everytime I login. He must have got my other information not exactly IP address to determine "who am i"?.

IT law is very clear, tracking any personal information including IP address has to be done with consent. If you donot let the user to know that his/her ip is being tracked then it's an offence for whatsoever reason.

[Optimus Prime]

IT law is very clear, tracking any personal information including IP address has to be done with consent. If you donot let the user to know that his/her ip is being tracked then it's an offence for whatsoever reason.
I'm sure that's another thing you "agree" to when becomming a memeber.

[lowpro]

interesting...he has 185 posts from the same IP.....so new ip everytime you say?

[snipe]

You are wrong. My friend I am behind firewall. My company issues me a new IP everytime I login. He must have got my other information not exactly IP address to determine "who am i"?.

IT law is very clear, tracking any personal information including IP address has to be done with consent. If you donot let the user to know that his/her ip is being tracked then it's an offence for whatsoever reason.
By connecting to a privately owned server you are giving consent for that server to log your activity. When you established an account on said server you furthermore have given that private entity in which you are connecting to the ability and the right, to connect your account with your IP address.

If you don't like the reality of this, don't do it. It is your choice to connect to said server or not.

Furthermore I think your interpretation of tracking is off.

Logging != Tracking

Slickdeals simply logs your connection to their site, as do any and all other servers on the internet. These logs can be cross-referenced to find where users of the same ip address accessed the server at what time and under what user account. It is perfectly legal and a right of each and every private server owner.

Much like you have the right to setup surveillance cameras in your home or on your property to keep track of who comes and goes, servers on the internet have the right to keep track of who connects and when.

[snipe]

interesting...he has 185 posts from the same IP.....so new ip everytime you say?
His companies firewall probably assigns him a different intranet (LAN) IP address every time he connects. The external internet IP address (WAN) is probably static and is that of the firewall itself. So basically his place of work routes multiple LAN ip addresses out over a single WAN ip address. Thus all of his accounts have the same IP address.

[tightwad]

You are wrong. My friend I am behind firewall. My company issues me a new IP everytime I login. He must have got my other information not exactly IP address to determine "who am i"?.

IT law is very clear, tracking any personal information including IP address has to be done with consent. If you donot let the user to know that his/her ip is being tracked then it's an offence for whatsoever reason.

I realize your version of workign int he IT industry is tech support for dell. This is not that same as WORKING IN IT, where you would understand that although your computer is DHCP'd a new INTERNAL IP everytime(even though it usually isn't), your EXTERNAL IP doesn't change(unless you work for a tiny company that can't afford a static IP).

No company is going to change it's EXTERNAL IP every day, that would cause all sorts of problems. Of course you already know this, since you are in IT for 10 year now.

BTW, it doesn't show your warnings to ANYONE else, you and the mods are the only ones that know.

[tightwad]

You might also be interested to know that they can tell what operating systems you are using and what browser you are using as well!

[kapildev]

You might also be interested to know that they can tell what operating systems you are using and what browser you are using as well!
I will not bite you as it's not worth.

[snipe]

I will not bite you as it's not worth.
Would you care to actually address some of the issues that you have brought up and we have responded to with additional inquiries?

[lowpro]

So.....Now that we have established that you were banned before for coming back and creating problems after you requested to have your account closed. What should we do with your current account??

[tightwad]

I will not bite you as it's not worth.


If the truth hurts, then I supposed you can count this a lesson learned.



Click me cause I know who you are (http://www.danasoft.com/sig/JWarren.jpg)

[kapildev]

I just came across an interesting fact kapildev....it seems that when I cross referenced your user name and your IP it came back with a few user names..Umm yeah that technology is availble as you might know. One of the user names that caught my eye was one by the name ikdash....ikdash requested that her account be closed because she was issued a warning because she posted a referral link, which isn't allowed on SD.

In fact here is a copy of that warning and lkdash's response.



A little suspicious wouldn't you say....
You did not give the background when and how I posted this link?.

You please explain the SD users how and under which link I posted this referal link?

[tightwad]

You did not give the background when and how I posted this link?.

You please explain the SD users how and under which link I posted this referal link?


Does it actually MATTER what link it was posted under? It was(and is) against the rules. Ingorance of the rules is no excuse.

[kapildev]

If the truth hurts, then I supposed you can count this a lesson learned.



Click me cause I know who you are (http://www.danasoft.com/sig/JWarren.jpg)
Absolutely wrong IP. That IP is to fool people like you.

[tightwad]

Absolutely wrong IP. That IP is to fool people like you.


let me guess, your IP starts with 10.?

[kapildev]

let me guess, your IP starts with 10.?
Go away as I told you are not worthy to bite.

[kapildev]

So.....Now that we have established that you were banned before for coming back and creating problems after you requested to have your account closed. What should we do with your current account??
As I told you your behavior is hotheaded. Let Mr. SlickDeal decides what to do? It’s worthless to fight with you. Mod’s like you making Slick deal weak day by day. Who knows you may be running another shop which may be competing against our SD.

[lowpro]

As I told you your behavior is hotheaded. Let Mr. SlickDeal decides what to do? It’s worthless to fight with you. Mod’s like you making Slick deal weak day by day. Who knows you may be running another shop which may be competing against our SD.

you continue to amaze me with your stupidity.

Oh and let me find that post where you posted that referral link....i'm that nice of a guy :P

[arjunsr]

You did not give the background when and how I posted this link?.

You please explain the SD users how and under which link I posted this referal link?
you posted a link to this site:
http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?

quote from the page:
Refer others and get paid up to two levels.

in the top right hand corner it says: Referred by: Multiple Stream (your link put your name here)

you claimed you didn't know it was a referral :rolleyes:

even if you didn't know it was referral, take your warning and leave it as a lesson learned.

[kapildev]

you posted a link to this site:
http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?

quote from the page:
Refer others and get paid up to two levels.

in the top right hand corner it says: Referred by: Multiple Stream (your link put your name here)

you claimed you didn't know it was a referral :rolleyes:

even if you didn't know it was referral, take your warning and leave it as a lesson learned.
#10 posting will answer you partly.

[snipe]

#10 posting will answer you partly.
No, no it doesn't.

[lowpro]

oh and besides the referral link in the post...this was also thrown in there to throw off to the moderators to let them know it wasn't a referral link.

Here is also a good link you get $10 while you sign up!

http://hits4pay.com/members/index.cgi?xxxxx

Sneaky Sneaky :doh:

[slickdeals]

All your questions have been addressed by the mods. If you have any further issues you can post it in this thread or pm me.

You're welcome to continue posting as long as you abide by the rules. Thank you for your recent contributions to the forums.

[shirleyuguest]

NEW EMAIL:

Since I see you're a coupon moderator, I'd like to get this suggestion to you:

Have you considered putting coupons in Alpha order by organization. And possibly being able to click on field header to sort by organization or date.

Thanks!

The picture issue has been discussed, so I won’t say what has already been said.

But I would reiterate what arjunsr and ywc have stated in order to further clear the air:
1) We aren’t babysitters, and I honestly do believe that some members see us as one.
2) We aren’t paid. We all moderate out of the goodness of our hearts. We are logged in here probably more than the average member, constantly looking out for other members & people who choose to disregard the rules. It’s not as easy as it looks, but someone has to do it.
3) If I am thinking of the person you are talking about in regards to asking to be banned, he wasn’t. A post was made from someone asking to be banned & he logged off right after the post was made.
4) The warning system works. The only time it can work against a member is when the member goes against the rules. You break a rule that you agreed to follow upon becoming a member here, you are notified & the proper action is taken. You continue to break the rules, you will continue to receive the appropriate warnings & actions from the moderators.
5) If you see “junk” posted, Mod Alert the thread & it will be handled. People believe that the moderators go through each individual thread. We don’t. If you don’t flag it & let us know about it, we may never see it. Not to mention, it gives documentation of the alert, which member alerted us, and the link.

Finally, if you have a problem with the board in any way, I suggest you let Mr. SlickDeals know.

Coupon & Freebies/Magazine Moderator,
OP