HD/Drug-Grocery POSTING RULE UPDATE 11/2: Expiration in titles guidelines
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Posters:
The mods spend a lot of time cleaning up old posts on PHAT, and unlike the format on the old FW, we don’t have an ‘expired’ alert button for people to alert mods that a deal is dead.
Therefore, we have to shift some of the onus onto OP’s to include in ALL NEW POSTS the expiration date of the deal (ie, Burger King with app, Free Kids meal with $1 add purchase valid to 8/15
if there is no expiration known from the deal information, the post should say EXP UNK.
This will make it much easier for moderators to move expired deals to expired, rather than waiting for a poster to post expired in the thread or report it, which often happens days or weeks later.
The number of posts not listing an expiration date and it’s known OR listing the expiration in the body of the post adds additional time consuming steps for the moderators. Having to read posts, click on the deal link, etc adds a lot of time to ‘clean up’ of old/dead threads.
We appreciate your cooperation to this new rule, REMEMBER ALL HD, DRUG & GROCERY Posts must included an expiration date or if not know, EXP UNK.
Thank you for your help and helping your fellow PhW community members.
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Members,
we know everyone works hard to share deals, but please take the time to inc. an expiration date in the title to help mods keep the boards ‘clean’ from dead deals. It so much easier for the moderators to scan titles for expired deals if the date is in the title.
If an expiration is not know, simply put EXP UNK.
Had to move a few new posts to expired for neglecting expiration dates in titles. It really makes a huge difference in helping us on Phat. THANK YOU!
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Members:
Please note, where digital coupon offers are concerned, if you post a digital coupon that must be loaded to your card by 11/4, 11/4 is the expiration date of the deal for posting purposed.
Even if that coupon can be redeemed up to 11/11, once we are past the point of someone taking advantage of the offer, that is what we focus on for deal thread purposes.
As an example. the Tmobile Tuesday threads are expired each week after Tuesday, although some of the offers redeemed in the TMO app are valid for days after the Tuesday in which they are claimed. The logic is no different for supermarket digital coupons, only while the offer is available to clip (not redeem) is the deal ‘live’. Please note this accordingly for expiration dates in titles of threads to keep the board up to date.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
