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Q: I had deals posted to the main site, why do I have a zero?

A: It's not updated automatically, post a link to your deal on the forum(*), the DDMS link, and the number HT it should be and Dan will update it.

(*)If your HT is already in the DDMS post there's no need to link to the forum thread.

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« Last edited by Dan on September 06, 2023, 05:12:52 PM »

Author Topic: Hat Tip Request Thread (Status for posting deals that are posted to main site)  (Read 976441 times)

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1860 on: December 20, 2016, 11:46:25 AM »
I should at least get 3 buffalo drops for 3 HT's

A buffalo drop is like an spg point and a ht is like a Marriott point, so no, you shouldn't

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1861 on: December 20, 2016, 11:46:47 AM »
Technically it was a roundup post of all their daily deals anyway.

66% of which was what I posted. The only reason the other wasn't posted, was because its older model, and the newer model is cheaper.

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1862 on: December 20, 2016, 11:47:45 AM »
Next do I'm treating you to a 34 piece of buffalo drops
Please bring a 40 year bottle as well
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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1863 on: December 20, 2016, 01:02:03 PM »
Next do I'm treating you to a 34 piece of buffalo drops
Please bring a 40 year bottle as well

Deal

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1869 on: December 21, 2016, 10:25:35 AM »
haha really?

Yes really, they are two totally different deals and finding one doesn't mean finding the other.

ETA: Just like here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/89660 and here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/90707

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1870 on: December 21, 2016, 10:30:43 AM »
Yes really, they are two totally different deals and finding one doesn't mean finding the other.

ETA: Just like here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/89660 and here http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/90707
You got 2 HTs for those?

I thought roundup don't get any HTs :P
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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1871 on: December 21, 2016, 10:31:55 AM »
You got 2 HTs for those?

I thought roundup don't get any HTs :P

Yes I did. How do these qualify as roundups? They aren't category, brand sales, or anything of the sort. Perhaps Dan should weigh in?

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1872 on: December 21, 2016, 10:52:38 AM »
Yes I did. How do these qualify as roundups? They aren't category, brand sales, or anything of the sort. Perhaps Dan should weigh in?
someones scrapping for HT's at the bottom of the barrel in the last hour.
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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1873 on: December 21, 2016, 10:54:50 AM »
someones scrapping for HT's at the bottom of the barrel in the last hour.
Do you think I'm "scrapping"? Rules work both ways

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1875 on: December 21, 2016, 10:58:30 AM »
There's always been a limit of 1 HT per DDMS post. Time for some F/Rs  ;)
Save your time, I don't answer PM. Post it in the forum and a dedicated DDF'er will get back to you as soon as possible.

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1876 on: December 21, 2016, 10:58:46 AM »
Really you expect two HT's for 1 post??

Look at it this way. HT's are for deals that are posted to DDMS. 1 HT for 1 deal. So if I posted two deals as different threads that were posted as one post, but both links were posted, and that they are not exclusively excluded from getting a HT, there is no reason I shouldn't get 2 HT's. Hear what I'm saying?

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1877 on: December 21, 2016, 10:59:21 AM »
There's always been a limit of 1 HT per DDMS post. Time for some F/Rs  ;)

In that case I should limit myself to only posting one next time, what's the point of posting both ;)

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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1878 on: December 21, 2016, 11:03:09 AM »
Often when there's more than 1 deal in a post, at least some of the items are not worth their own post.
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Re: Status for posting deals that are posted to main site?
« Reply #1879 on: December 21, 2016, 11:35:24 AM »
Often when there's more than 1 deal in a post, at least some of the items are not worth their own post.

Dan, let me quote what you wrote in the posts:
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/89660 ' "Price mistake?" "record low price"...
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/90707 "record low price" each a $50 drop
http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/102582 "record low price"
None of these terms reflect what you said.

Also if the fact that you post two threads together makes it ineligible for a second HT, and that the rule is in fact "There's always been a limit of 1 HT per DDMS post", how do you explain this? http://www.dansdeals.com/archives/95342 Why would it make any difference if the same or two different people posted the two deals?
That being said there is no consistence in this unspoken rule. The fact is that there is no written rule excluding this scenario, and that I have gotten two HT's twice in the past in the same circumstances.
I understand that you want to be right since this is your forum, but I appreciate honesty.