OZBARGAIN REWARD to Members ??

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  [Deactivated] on 03/12/2013 - 17:02

  Some members have said they don't even vote until they receive the deal in case they need to then neg vote

  Well said
  Some people came here just to take and take and take

  http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/106573

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    BlazinPast on 03/12/2013 - 23:41

    Yeah I understand what you mean. But lets assume everyone was forced to +ve vote a deal they liked. Then there would be too many deals on the front page. Scotty would make increase the number of votes needed to reach the front page. Thus, everything would cancel each other out.

    Example: Say there was deal A, B, C and D. A has 40 votes, B has 15 votes, C has 25 votes and D has 10 votes. Only A and C would make front page since their number of votes are greater than 20. Lets say everyone is forced to vote. A gets 120 votes, B gets 95 votes, C gets 100 votes, D gets 80 votes. Obviously, all of them are greater than 20 votes so they would reach the front page. However, there would be too many deals on the front page then. Thus, Scotty would increase the limit to something like 100 votes to make the front page. As you can see, A and C again are the only ones that make the cut-off just like the current system

    Hence, it wouldn't really make too much of a difference in my opinion.

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  outlander on 04/12/2013 - 03:42

  +2

  Long before I signed up here I was a frequent visitor of a very similar site that was, shall we say, a little more to the left of the shady-honest spectrum. It was a site for sharing links to media, as it was posted to torrent networks. I used it mostly for discovering new movies, tv shows, software etc. It differed in a few ways from OzB, a main one being that only the owner could make posts.

  After a few years the site owner started to get overwhelmed, and recruited staff from the regular commenters. This worked well for a while. They weren't paid, but it was a hobby to them so they didn't mind spending a few hours a week making posts. Then the affiliate links started. Places like rapidshare will pay up to half a cent for every person you send their way. Times that by 200K people and it adds up. Quality on the site started to slip, with more and more repeat posts of varying quality, software with a good description but was buggy, and generally any garbage that could be posted quickly. Started with one editor doing bad posts 10% of the time, and escalated to half the editor staff posting junk 100% of the time. It got to be that you'd have to go through 20 pages to find a good post. The remaining editors who refused to sell out got pissed that the others where coasting on their efforts and diluting their contribution, so eventually they left. And then the junk was all that remained.

  Btw I didn't know about any of this until years later. One day I reinstalled windows, and then just forgot to visit the site. Went from checking it every morning and night to not at all. Last I looked it was still full of junk and the server had been infected. I think its rebounded now.

  Main point is that incentives are nice, but you have to be careful with them as it can bring out the worst in some people. If rewards were based on popularity, I could easily see a race to post stuff from supermarket catalogs, or some free piece of crap, as its almost a surefire way to get plenty of votes.

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  cpho on 04/12/2013 - 14:40

  +3

  Maybe there isn't an incentive for high vote deals, but there is definitely an incentive to join ozbargain.
  Because if you're not a member, you miss out on jv's comments :D

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  watty on 05/12/2013 - 01:37

  Isn't the ozbargain reward to members the reward of good deals, consumer knowledge and saving money?
  Edit: I mean, adding great deals is just contributing towards the community and that's a great thing!

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