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Why can't I mark things as Expired?

2,207 442 February 5, 2026 at 08:33 PM
You obviously don't have staff that checks deals, so when I'm looking for a specific item, and find tons of posts that are long expired, I try to help clean things up by reporting them as expired. However, I can only report ONE item as expired?

After I try to report a second item as Expired, I get an error stating
"Too many expired deal reports, try again later."

One is too many? That's a pretty crappy limit. This should be looked at and increased dramatically. I'm looking for a laptop and find deal after deal that are expired, but still in the Hot Deals forum. Let us help and mark them as such.
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pur | Staff
02-06-2026 at 01:11 PM.
02-06-2026 at 01:11 PM.
Quote from kelemvor :
You obviously don't have staff that checks deals, so when I'm looking for a specific item, and find tons of posts that are long expired, I try to help clean things up by reporting them as expired. However, I can only report ONE item as expired?

After I try to report a second item as Expired, I get an error stating
"Too many expired deal reports, try again later."

One is too many? That's a pretty crappy limit. This should be looked at and increased dramatically. I'm looking for a laptop and find deal after deal that are expired, but still in the Hot Deals forum. Let us help and mark them as such.
Reporting dead deals is indeed a big help to everyone, but I think there was an issue with bots or cats walking on touchpads reporting everything, so they added a limit as a quick fix. Thanks for the feedback that it's interfering with normal use.
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02-06-2026 at 05:11 PM.
02-06-2026 at 05:11 PM.
Quote from pur :
Reporting dead deals is indeed a big help to everyone, but I think there was an issue with bots or cats walking on touchpads reporting everything, so they added a limit as a quick fix. Thanks for the feedback that it's interfering with normal use.
Can you let me know what the mysterious criteria is? If I report something expired, how long do I have to wait before I can report something else expired? It would be better to just flag certain accounts instead of blocking all your actual users from doing it.
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02-09-2026 at 09:15 AM.
02-09-2026 at 09:15 AM.
Quote from kelemvor :
Can you let me know what the mysterious criteria is? If I report something expired, how long do I have to wait before I can report something else expired? It would be better to just flag certain accounts instead of blocking all your actual users from doing it.
I believe that you should only have to wait around a minute to report another thread expired.
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02-17-2026 at 07:10 AM.
02-17-2026 at 07:10 AM.
Great topic I am trying to clean up expired tech myself
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