Surely to save the database a few thousand "Price in title" comments you could add some validation saying that if the deal isn't marked as a Freebie then there must be a dollar sign followed by an amount in the title.
I know that some deals have multiple deals and therefore prices, but at least one example could be in the title.
The rules/guidelines are there. It even says "price" in the text box as someone types the Title of a new deal.
Whether people read those rules/guidelines is a different story.
Part of my job is to add validation to a system to ensure our data is compliant with external parties. What I have learned is that you can't trust users to do what they are meant to do.
If a system allows them to do something, they'll do it. No amount of policies, procedures and training will stop incompetence and negligence. Only a hard error message will achieve results.
Also grats on your 7500th comment.
The field/form validations aren't something new and, since the site has been around for a while, I'm assuming it's been considered in the past and there's reasons the site-owners haven't included such a field - the reasons of which I won't pretend to know! 😆 So I'll let them explain if they want to…
Also grats on your 7500th comment.
oh wow! thanks! I didn't even realise! 😊
There are other deals that are posted that do not contain prices (example: 20% off selected eBay stores).
If a system allows them to do something, they'll do it.
As you may have seen, there are validations configured which will attempt to fix up the title for the poster to a certain extent. The poster needs to accept the "Suggested format for title", though.
Edit: There is validation looking for a $, but as stated above, there are many deals that may not need them (almost weekly eBay deals, EOFY, Father's Day, Easter, Prime Day, Black Friday, Christmas, etc - per store).
IF {$price} is in title THEN {publish} deal ELSE {💩} deal.
There you go scotty. At that to your code.
Are you saying that we should put $0 in the title or just 'free'? Both work fine, tbh.
This was implemented many years ago. You'll get a warning if there isn't a price.
As other posters said, not all deals have prices (e.g. free games, % off at eBay) so making it a requirement would cause more issues.
I suppose it comes down to people flat out ignoring or not reading the messages.
It's also generally first time posters so they learn pretty quickly.