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Update to Freebie Guidelines that will be affecting the Free Digital Goods Forum

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Hi Everyone,

In the past we have allowed threads to stay in the HD forum if they had at least one item that was normally valued at $10 or more.

Unfortunately, some have taken advantage of that and started posting threads in HD with lots of free digital things and then added one that was normally valued at $10 in order to get the thread to stay there.

We've had complaints from members and also find that those threads are taking up valuable space in our Popular Deals section on the home page.

From now on we will be moving all free digital threads to this forum with the rare exception of a super hot item.

This guideline might be looked at again in the future and if we feel it needs readjusting we will do that at that time.
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Created 06-05-2013 at 09:57 AM by Schooby
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BoldIntrepid
06-05-2013 at 03:27 PM.
06-05-2013 at 03:27 PM.
So even if it is a single item priced higher than $10 (like software), it will be moved?

I know some people (kamina) have been posting threads with kindle books like that...
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Schooby
06-05-2013 at 03:47 PM.
06-05-2013 at 03:47 PM.
Quote from BoldIntrepid :
So even if it is a single item priced higher than $10 (like software), it will be moved?

I know some people (kamina) have been posting threads with kindle books like that...
Yes unless it's unusually popular/hot.

If it's just random stuff and one thing happens to be a $10 item...it will be moved to this forum,.

This is a tricky guideline to make as we don't want to have everyone miss out if some ridiculously hot item goes free all of a sudden...but we're trying to curbe the use of a loophole. I hope that makes sense.

If you guys see something that's a hot item and it's in here please go ahead and give me a heads up or MA it to see if the mods feel it needs to get more exposure.
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wizard7926
06-07-2013 at 09:45 AM.
06-07-2013 at 09:45 AM.
Quote from Schooby :
Yes unless it's unusually popular/hot.

If it's just random stuff and one thing happens to be a $10 item...it will be moved to this forum,.

This is a tricky guideline to make as we don't want to have everyone miss out if some ridiculously hot item goes free all of a sudden...but we're trying to curbe the use of a loophole. I hope that makes sense.

If you guys see something that's a hot item and it's in here please go ahead and give me a heads up or MA it to see if the mods feel it needs to get more exposure.
In other words, Photoshop CS2 = Hot Deals, MicroBitsoftProX PDF Maker 7.82 = Free Digital Goods laugh out loud
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magicka
06-13-2013 at 07:24 AM.
06-13-2013 at 07:24 AM.
Quote from wizard7926 :
In other words, Photoshop CS2 = Hot Deals, MicroBitsoftProX PDF Maker 7.82 = Free Digital Goods laugh out loud
but its version 7.82, thats HOT! laugh out loud LMAO
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lawofattraction
12-31-2013 at 12:34 PM.
12-31-2013 at 12:34 PM.
Quote from Schooby :
Hi Everyone,

In the past we have allowed threads to stay in the HD forum if they had at least one item that was normally valued at $10 or more.

Unfortunately, some have taken advantage of that and started posting threads in HD with lots of free digital things and then added one that was normally valued at $10 in order to get the thread to stay there.

We've had complaints from members and also find that those threads are taking up valuable space in our Popular Deals section on the home page.

From now on we will be moving all free digital threads to this forum with the rare exception of a super hot item.

This guideline might be looked at again in the future and if we feel it needs readjusting we will do that at that time.
That seems fair.
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Jasmine2323
01-07-2014 at 06:12 AM.
01-07-2014 at 06:12 AM.
Quote from lawofattraction :
That seems fair.
This is fair. Thanks for sharing and updating.
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CharlieSummers
01-09-2014 at 01:15 PM.
01-09-2014 at 01:15 PM.
If it's digital, it should be here regardless of value. If it's truly "hot" then it would make front page.
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matteda
04-03-2014 at 08:08 PM.
04-03-2014 at 08:08 PM.
Can we filter or separate threads dedicated to kindle,ios,win/Mac?

Coz mostly I see kindle n I don't need it
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CheapCoupons024
04-09-2014 at 11:25 PM.
04-09-2014 at 11:25 PM.
Great!! Thanks
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compassionateone
05-12-2014 at 09:55 AM.
05-12-2014 at 09:55 AM.
I'm not tech savvy so I was elated when after clicking around I stumbled on this part of SD... Smilie TY for all you do (:
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GoPens!
05-24-2014 at 04:51 AM.
05-24-2014 at 04:51 AM.
Kindle posts are overwhelming the digital forum. They need an official sticky thread or a sub-forum.
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OvuncT
09-23-2014 at 04:25 PM.
09-23-2014 at 04:25 PM.
Quote from GoPens! :
Kindle posts are overwhelming the digital forum. They need an official sticky thread or a sub-forum.

yes, very good solution.
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kuyashane
02-12-2015 at 07:56 PM.
02-12-2015 at 07:56 PM.
Quote from OvuncT :
yes, very good solution.

I second
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jp1283
05-23-2015 at 12:18 PM.
05-23-2015 at 12:18 PM.
Thanks for the guideline. Really helps a newbie like me. Smilie
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