Why wasn't my post made FPD :(
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“Why wasn’t my post made FPD” 
I believe this question comes up in minds of many of the dimers (esp new members) when they post a deal and it is not promoted to the Front Page. They seek an answer for the same but unfortunately it is not practically feasible to give an answer to everyone individually. Hence, I thought of creating a Topic here to give all possible (but not restricted to) answers to this question.
Hope it will calm the queries which many have in mind.
1. Very little price decrease from the previous available best price
2. Store (website) is not reliable / has a lot of negative reviews
3. Product is not worth (reviews are not good)
4. Coupon code used was not generic (universally applicable), i.e. the deal is not applicable for everyone
5. Similar deal/product is already on FP
6. Price of the product is going down and is expected to drop further
7. Product is available at a cheaper price offline.
8. Another better product is available in the similar price range.
9. Your Topic is a REPOST
10. Content copied from other site
11. OP keeps asking for Vote Ups, Suggestions & Comments
12. OP bumps the topic multiple times
13. OP keeps messaging the Admin/Mods to make his deal FPD
14. Obvious price mistake on the store (website)
15. Coupon applicable for another product is being applied to the deal
16. Mounting to unethical means to get the deal
17. Price comparisons missing
18. Coupon valid for a short time or deal valid for a short time
19. Deal is not presentable, i.e. it is difficult to make out ‘what is the deal’ or ‘how to get the deal’
20. We missed your deal because of error on our part
21. Posting CHEAP titles such as Cheapest on earth, Dirt Cheap, Cheapest in the universe, Cheaper than previous all FPD, Cheapest ever, Cheapest online etc.
22. Good deal but very less likes & suggestions
23. Deal posted in wrong section
24. Deal/Product is restricted to only certain group of people in terms of usage
25. Because not all deals can be made FPD 
The last reason is the most common too… If the product is priced cheapest then it does not necessarily mean that it will hit the FP!
Some FAQ’s:
1. My deal has 15 likes & 15 suggestions…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- Likes & Suggestions are just a part of the FP selection process. It takes hardly 10 seconds to suggest & vote up a deal but we discuss the deal at length before promoting.
Also we’ve observed that Likes & Suggestions are being given by people in a kind of an alliance…. i.e If i Vote Up & Suggest your deal…You too will do the same. This is happening with many people.
This surely increases the no. of likes & suggestions for your Topic but it decreases the value of likes & suggestions for us while discussing the deal.
2. My deal is the cheapest…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- As said before, being cheapest is not the only criteria for a FPD. With so many stores around it is obvious that each and every product would be for the lowest price at one or the other store. There are many other parameters on which a deal is judged before promoting it to FP.
3. My deal is cheaper than last FPD…Why hasn’t it still made it to FP?
- Being cheaper than the last FPD should never be considered as a criteria for deal being promoted to Front Page. As mentioned above, prices of products would fall/rise continuously. The deal being considered awesome 2 or 3 months back and hitting the FP might not be appealing today even if the prices have gone down some reasons being – the product might have been deemed obsolete, there are better products in similar price range now, the store offering low price is not having good reviews… etc etc…
Remember always, price is only one criteria and not the only criteria for any deal.
Some Tips from my side:
- Everyone look for variety in the deals, so try to post more deals from the non electronic category.
Remember we are DesiDime and not DesiElectronics
- Add pics, reviews & comparisons for reference.
- Give proper details on ‘How to get the deal’ including the details of coupon used if any.
- Don’t aim for an FPD while posting the deal. Post the deal in a manner which you think will help someone buy it.
- Share the link to the previous best price on DD for that product.
- Don’t get offended by any negative comment and try to take it in a +ve way.
- Never message Mods/Admins to make your deal FP.
- Don’t bump the Topic unnecessarily .
- Give both Pros & Cons of the product.
- Follow all the rules
I hope now, this topic will help people who seek an answer to the question – “Why wasn’t my post made FPD?” and will also help everyone to post quality deals in a presentable manner.
Happy DesiDiming friends and keep posting
Thanks to all Mods for helping me with this topic & special thanks to DM bro for his contributions
harcoredimer wrote:
I think the biggest difficulty, with non electronic product is no price comparison. Hence no one is suggesting these deals, There should be some way to encourage more users to suggest such deals
i dont think so my frnd.. check this thread..
Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:
QWERTY Bhai at times it happens that good deals dont get the required attention from members say suggestions, vote ups etc..Generally such things could happen with items which are not electronics how do we deals with such cases.. are admins and mods also looking for such deals ?? i am talking in general
Yes bhai…We surely are looking for variety in deals…
We do understand that for such deals one doesn’t get much likes or suggestions and we accept this fact & therefore we treat such deals differently!
Is this special rule applicable for the sections of Daily deal aswell ?? generally this section is like a post graveyard people post and hardly people visit.. only when people know sankalp deal has come they would check this section and that too maybe because people keep linking to the orignal post whenever repost are made in hot deal section
chauhanparth577 wrote:harcoredimer wrote:
I think the biggest difficulty, with non electronic product is no price comparison. Hence no one is suggesting these deals, There should be some way to encourage more users to suggest such deals
i dont think so my frnd.. check this thread..
Thanks 
This http://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-online... (is not a very good deal 
, but using this as an example)
Will have very hard to find comparisons and will always go unnoticed, isn’t it?
harcoredimer wrote:chauhanparth577 wrote:harcoredimer wrote:
I think the biggest difficulty, with non electronic product is no price comparison. Hence no one is suggesting these deals, There should be some way to encourage more users to suggest such deals
i dont think so my frnd.. check this thread..
Thanks
This http://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-online... (is not a very good deal
Will have very hard to find comparisons and will always go unnoticed, isn’t it?
bhai itna hard bhi nahi.. here r few i found just now [less than a min]..
Well all i want to say is that.. one can find comparison of almost every product or similar products..
@harcoredimer bhai.. Qwerty bhai gave some good tips.. trust me if everyone starts following it.. everyone will get appreciation..
Add this too
PM’ing others to have a look at the deal or for Vote UPs or Suggestions
And I have one last thing to clarify, if a good deal is posted and nobody notices then it gets faded away and nobody gets benefited from it so honestly speaking I really cant agree here with some rules here even though I’m a big fan of all the user turned mods here
bohra wrote:Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:
QWERTY Bhai at times it happens that good deals dont get the required attention from members say suggestions, vote ups etc..Generally such things could happen with items which are not electronics how do we deals with such cases.. are admins and mods also looking for such deals ?? i am talking in general
Yes bhai…We surely are looking for variety in deals…
We do understand that for such deals one doesn’t get much likes or suggestions and we accept this fact & therefore we treat such deals differently!
Is this special rule applicable for the sections of Daily deal aswell ?? generally this section is like a post graveyard people post and hardly people visit.. only when people know sankalp deal has come they would check this section and that too maybe because people keep linking to the orignal post whenever repost are made in hot deal section
Yes bhai it’s applicable for different products in whatever section they may be posted…
Daily Deals is like a post graveyard because people just post but no one comments there…So no discussions happen & that also kills the chances for promoting any deals from there…
Bhai aap comment karna start kardo Daily Deals me…People will follow
Ju$ wrote:
Add this too
PM’ing others to have a look at the deal or for Vote UPs or Suggestions
Bro this falls in Point 11 only
11. OP keeps asking for Vote Ups, Suggestions & Comments
Some people report us such messages where the poster has asked for likes & suggestions & we avoid such topics then!
Ju$ wrote:
And I have one last thing to clarify, if a good deal is posted and nobody notices then it gets faded away and nobody gets benefited from it so honestly speaking I really cant agree here with rules though even though I’m a big fan of all the user turned mods here
You can Alert Admin(using Alert Administrator feature) for such deals if you feel that they are fading away…We won’t be replying but we surely read them
To be very honest with you,your last FPD was an outcome of your comment in the Alert Administrator only
PS: Bro being fans or friends has nothing to do with Agreeing/Disagreeing…Feel free to post what you like…We all like healthy discussions
@ Qwerty bhai
I’m aware bro, couldn’t help doing that 
EDIT – Mainlining a balance in your own job/business, life and DD is a very very hard task to do and truly speaking thts the only reason I’m fan of all the user turned mods here 
In-fact, i hate the admins out here …Nah I’m kidding You guys rock too 
dont u find http://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-online… fishy and many such deals too bad i dont have karma to vote down
By chance FPD came out in last two days includes some of deals where 10 likes given in a row. Vns
Vns
Vns
CreTe doubt that some convassing done.
Refer some of speaker deals.
Prices and product may have attractive but few of the top from leader board may be involved in this,
They are playing FPD FPD.
SO value to the views of person not involved in barter trade should be given more value.
Nothing personal against
chauhanparth577 wrote:
@harcoredimer bhai.. Qwerty bhai gave some good tips.. trust me if everyone starts following it.. everyone will get appreciation..
I am not even arguing to that
And it was not abt that particular deal (which i know is very average 
)
There are certain products, say for e.g Tshirts, Non Branded Kitchenware (or for that matter anything non branded), Kurti’s for women which are very hard for people to appreciate. We all should come up with things to Improve likes and suggestions for these deals, is all what I was trying to say
harcoredimer wrote:chauhanparth577 wrote:
@harcoredimer bhai.. Qwerty bhai gave some good tips.. trust me if everyone starts following it.. everyone will get appreciation..
I am not even arguing to that
And it was not abt that particular deal (which i know is very average
There are certain products, say for e.g Tshirts, Non Branded Kitchenware (or for that matter anything non branded), Kurti’s for women which are very hard for people to appreciate. We all should come up with things to Improve likes and suggestions for these deals, is all what I was trying to say
Any suggestions you’d like to give to solve this problem?
dhagaa wrote:
dont u find http://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-online... fishy and many such deals too bad i dont have karma to vote down
See we cannot question anyone’s vote or suggestion but we surely do understand what is happening these days.
That is all i have to say
Qwerty Bhai…… On top of my head, I think, instances of dimers seeing more such deals being promoted as FPD, will defi encourage more dimers to find such deal and also like such deals….. what do u think ??
@B@R_0_0_D wrote:@
By chance FPD came out in last two days includes some of deals where 10 likes given in a row. Vns
Vns
Vns
CreTe doubt that some convassing done.
Refer some of speaker deals.
Prices and product may have attractive but few of the top from leader board may be involved in this,
They are playing FPD FPD.
SO value to the views of person not involved in barter trade should be given more value.
Nothing personal against
Yes bro…We’re moving towards that only
Giving importance to genuine likes,reviews & suggestions
We too don’t like this FPD-FPD game
Qwerty wrote:harcoredimer wrote:chauhanparth577 wrote:
@harcoredimer bhai.. Qwerty bhai gave some good tips.. trust me if everyone starts following it.. everyone will get appreciation..
I am not even arguing to that
And it was not abt that particular deal (which i know is very average
There are certain products, say for e.g Tshirts, Non Branded Kitchenware (or for that matter anything non branded), Kurti’s for women which are very hard for people to appreciate. We all should come up with things to Improve likes and suggestions for these deals, is all what I was trying to say
Any suggestions you’d like to give to solve this problem?
- More Dimes For Such Deals
- More Karma For Such Deals
- More Karma For users who Post Such Deals
- Different criteria for selecting these deals, less number of likes and suggestions also good enough to make it as FPD
Will add few more
Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:
QWERTY Bhai at times it happens that good deals dont get the required attention from members say suggestions, vote ups etc..Generally such things could happen with items which are not electronics how do we deals with such cases.. are admins and mods also looking for such deals ?? i am talking in general
Yes bhai…We surely are looking for variety in deals…
We do understand that for such deals one doesn’t get much likes or suggestions and we accept this fact & therefore we treat such deals differently!
Is this special rule applicable for the sections of Daily deal aswell ?? generally this section is like a post graveyard people post and hardly people visit.. only when people know sankalp deal has come they would check this section and that too maybe because people keep linking to the orignal post whenever repost are made in hot deal section
Yes bhai it’s applicable for different products in whatever section they may be posted…
Daily Deals is like a post graveyard because people just post but no one comments there…So no discussions happen & that also kills the chances for promoting any deals from there…
Bhai aap comment karna start kardo Daily Deals me…People will follow
Bro i use to be a regular topic poster of daily deals and people who replied were the traditional repliers only but ill try to be more active there too.. aaj kaal mereako Dost & Dimes section ka chaska laga hai lol
anthrax.ut wrote:
Qwerty Bhai…… On top of my head, I think, instances of dimers seeing more such deals being promoted as FPD, will defi encourage more dimers to find such deal and also like such deals….. what do u think ??
Yes bhai…I think we should increase count of such deals on the FP…
Once this happens the motivation will also come
Let’s take the initiative then
anthrax.ut wrote:
Qwerty Bhai…… On top of my head, I think, instances of dimers seeing more such deals being promoted as FPD, will defi encourage more dimers to find such deal and also like such deals….. what do u think ??
even this could be one of the way, why don’t you guys suggest more of such deal, even that might encourage more people
harcoredimer wrote:Qwerty wrote:harcoredimer wrote:chauhanparth577 wrote:
@harcoredimer bhai.. Qwerty bhai gave some good tips.. trust me if everyone starts following it.. everyone will get appreciation..
I am not even arguing to that
And it was not abt that particular deal (which i know is very average
There are certain products, say for e.g Tshirts, Non Branded Kitchenware (or for that matter anything non branded), Kurti’s for women which are very hard for people to appreciate. We all should come up with things to Improve likes and suggestions for these deals, is all what I was trying to say
Any suggestions you’d like to give to solve this problem?
- More Dimes For Such Deals
- More Karma For Such Deals
- More Karma For users who Post Such Deals
- Different criteria for selecting these deals, less number of likes and suggestions also good enough to make it as FPD
Will add few more
Thanks for the wonderful suggestions
* Different criteria for selecting these deals, less number of likes and suggestions also good enough to make it as FPD
Working on this already
Will try to implement the rest too.
bohra wrote:Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:Qwerty wrote:bohra wrote:
QWERTY Bhai at times it happens that good deals dont get the required attention from members say suggestions, vote ups etc..Generally such things could happen with items which are not electronics how do we deals with such cases.. are admins and mods also looking for such deals ?? i am talking in general
Yes bhai…We surely are looking for variety in deals…
We do understand that for such deals one doesn’t get much likes or suggestions and we accept this fact & therefore we treat such deals differently!
Is this special rule applicable for the sections of Daily deal aswell ?? generally this section is like a post graveyard people post and hardly people visit.. only when people know sankalp deal has come they would check this section and that too maybe because people keep linking to the orignal post whenever repost are made in hot deal section
Yes bhai it’s applicable for different products in whatever section they may be posted…
Daily Deals is like a post graveyard because people just post but no one comments there…So no discussions happen & that also kills the chances for promoting any deals from there…
Bhai aap comment karna start kardo Daily Deals me…People will follow
Bro i use to be a regular topic poster of daily deals and people who replied were the traditional repliers only but ill try to be more active there too.. aaj kaal mereako Dost & Dimes section ka chaska laga hai lol
Sure bro…
Dost & Dimes me bhi aap acha kaam kar rahe ho…..Lage Raho!
By the title i thought there is one more Cry Baby crying for his post to be FPD.
But the number of smileys made me look into it.
Superb compilation bro.
harcoredimer wrote:anthrax.ut wrote:
Qwerty Bhai…… On top of my head, I think, instances of dimers seeing more such deals being promoted as FPD, will defi encourage more dimers to find such deal and also like such deals….. what do u think ??
even this could be one of the way, why don’t you guys suggest more of such deal, even that might encourage more people
Yes bro…We’re trying to do that only…
Not only suggesting we’re planning to promote more such deals
smartfriend85 wrote:
By the title i thought there is one more Cry Baby crying for his post to be FPD.
But the number of smileys made me look into it.
Superb compilation bro.
Bro
The intention was also to answer all such “Cry Babies” through this thread
smartfriend85 wrote:
By the title i thought there is one more Cry Baby crying for his post to be FPD.
Qwerty wrote:harcoredimer wrote:anthrax.ut wrote:
Qwerty Bhai…… On top of my head, I think, instances of dimers seeing more such deals being promoted as FPD, will defi encourage more dimers to find such deal and also like such deals….. what do u think ??
even this could be one of the way, why don’t you guys suggest more of such deal, even that might encourage more people
Yes bro…We’re trying to do that only…
Not only suggesting we’re planning to promote more such deals
Thanks 
ok i was finding such a deal dont know if this exactly falls in it or not but something close posted it here http://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-online… dont know if the prices is good or not but lets see how the response goes no1 who read about this deal here respond or vote lets see if people vote anything for such a thing or even comment
Yes bhai…We surely are looking for variety in deals…
We do understand that for such deals one doesn’t get much likes or suggestions and we accept this fact & therefore we treat such deals differently!