Bye Bye FPD & Changing the way we earn Dimes !! - Suggestions needed
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16th August 2018 Update:
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Hello Dimers,
From Day one, Being Savings-obsessive people we are, We always wanted to highlight the very best deals on our Home Page of DesiDime. We use to manually select deals as FPD and highlight them on our home page. Idea was simple, we need to showcase the best deals regardless of the user who has posted it or the merchant. The deal should help people save money!
With community growing, Selection of FPD started to become more and more difficult. Some deals would run out of stock very soon, Some deals we could not promote as FPD as earlier we might not have promoted similar ones. We slowly started to create rules for FPD which kept growing every month… We started getting tags for making deals FPD… which was not the original idea… Some deals, the discussion was more about FPD rather than the deal itself.
We also introduced Hotness last year to portray the hotness of the deal(whatever the community feels about the Deal) and have been constantly working on its algorithm. Starting sometime in September, We (Select Admins, Moderators, Users with deal promotion power) would not be promoting deals as FPD anymore. With scale, we feel that Community is mature enough to choose good deals.. and most of the Home page deals will be powered by what community feels with certain Editorial content management.
We would still be involved in highlighting certain deals (like bumping upcoming deals which went live, showcasing certain deals which we feel community might have missed etc, removing deals which might be illegal or very user specific, removing deals which are intentionally bumped by users etc..) but our action will not result in a user getting FPD etc. Our objective is to make process more democratic while still keeping some editorial control of home page. Most of the deals on home page will be shown based on users reaction to the deals. So its what about what community/Dimers at large feels about the deal..
Users statistics like FPD count will be replaced with better metrics like Average Temperature, HOT Deals (Deals with more than 300 Degree hotness in x number of days) which would still justify and highlight the Best Deal Posters. Obviously, Number of Historical FPD will be still shown on user profile page
As shared earlier, even Dimes reward will now be based on reaction of community to the deal which will allow any user posting a very very good deal to get upto 100 Dimes while very cold deals can even get 0 Dimes. This we feel will remove users who spam deals.
And yes, We will also be launching a Revived Gift portal later end of this year where Dimers can automatically convert their Dimes into Gift Cards of their choice.. So no more filling up forms etc
We would love to hear what Dimers think! We are super-excited to give more power to community… as we have always believed that “Community is everything…”
Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
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So as the platform has evolved the Dime system has not evolved !
This is an attempt to change that and make it more dynamic
Current system as we see has one flaw !
It does not differentiate between good deals / great deals / Mad Crazy deals
It treats them all as one !
So how do we change it
Is to have dynamic dime distribution based on algorithm !!
what it means is that a deal can get 0.2 dime, 2 dime 10 dime…….100 dime
Depending on how the deal is performing on various parameter determined by the algorithm
So if some one comes and posts deals which they know are going to get them an FPD….. but the community knows its an avg deal then the system will distribute dimes accordingly and not necessarily give 20 dimes
This is our first thought, this is not final…… this thread is meant to start the discussion so that we can change the way we do things….. please add your comments so that as community we can get a better system in place
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Hello Dimers,
From Day one, Being Savings-obsessive people we are, We always wanted to highlight the very best deals on our Home Page of DesiDime. We use to manually select deals as FPD and highlight them on our home page. Idea was simple, we need to showcase the best deals regardless of the user who has posted it or the merchant. The deal should help people save money!
With community growing, Selection of FPD started to become more and more difficult. Some deals would run out of stock very soon, Some deals we could not promote as FPD as earlier we might not have promoted similar ones. We slowly started to create rules for FPD which kept growing every month… We started getting tags for making deals FPD… which was not the original idea… Some deals, the discussion was more about FPD rather than the deal itself.
We also introduced Hotness last year to portray the hotness of the deal(whatever the community feels about the Deal) and have been constantly working on its algorithm. Starting sometime in September, We (Select Admins, Moderators, Users with deal promotion power) would not be promoting deals as FPD anymore. With scale, we feel that Community is mature enough to choose good deals.. and most of the Home page deals will be powered by what community feels with certain Editorial content management.
We would still be involved in highlighting certain deals (like bumping upcoming deals which went live, showcasing certain deals which we feel community might have missed etc, removing deals which might be illegal or very user specific, removing deals which are intentionally bumped by users etc..) but our action will not result in a user getting FPD etc. Our objective is to make process more democratic while still keeping some editorial control of home page. Most of the deals on home page will be shown based on users reaction to the deals. So its what about what community/Dimers at large feels about the deal..
Users statistics like FPD count will be replaced with better metrics like Average Temperature, HOT Deals (Deals with more than 300 Degree hotness in x number of days) which would still justify and highlight the Best Deal Posters. Obviously, Number of Historical FPD will be still shown on user profile page
As shared earlier, even Dimes reward will now be based on reaction of community to the deal which will allow any user posting a very very good deal to get upto 100 Dimes while very cold deals can even get 0 Dimes. This we feel will remove users who spam deals.
And yes, We will also be launching a Revived Gift portal later end of this year where Dimers can automatically convert their Dimes into Gift Cards of their choice.. So no more filling up forms etc
We would love to hear what Dimers think! We are super-excited to give more power to community… as we have always believed that “Community is everything…”
Feedback and suggestions are welcome!
Many working full time as Desidime Deal Poster ?
A Big step in DD History
This will definitely save their money.
May be
Distribute your everyday profit cut to every dimer who post a deal @anthrax.ut…. haha
Maybe it can be based on the count of dimers involving in the discussion when deals are posted. I’ve seen mad crazy deals getting a lot of good attention in the discussion. Cons on this would be, for new app deals, like yesterday’s boom app deal where there were many unique dimers on discussion but it was mainly to ask referral code to be pmed. Those should be ignored by the algorithm
Then what about trolls in a thread?…
Some change in user rank sytem also. There is no reward for being an active user of DD.
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What will be those parameters @anthrax.ut ?
It will be a mix of many things
Votes
Comments
Clickouts
Hotness
recency of the deal
and more…. fed into the system for the system to continuously learn and evolve
Min Of 10-15 Dimes Should Be Given when A Deal Becomes FPD
What should a DIME be equal to? …
I think min. 10 dimes must given to fpd deals ….. And increase by its popularity …..and value of that deal post 😀👍
#BusinessFriendly or #CommunityFriendly or #DimerFriendly
What will you choose?
A mix balance without hurting business, without hurting sentiment & keeping all involved parties happy
Some tough calls looks to be on board but don’t make it meager payment for contribution to community
But it will have subjectivity & that should not be skewed in favor of business as many deals are not business oriented but traffic oriented
Lets hope for WIN WIN situation
I think if it is #Communityfriendly it should cover both businessfriendly and dimerfriendly
Coz more the community participates/appreciates/dislikes it will directly relate to the way dimes are distributed
Or either you make catagories like superduper deal , superdeal, and hot deal rather than FPD system and fixed the dimes accordingly on post goes to which catagory
Babu ji nay kaha gayon chod doo, app nai kaha ghar chod doo, sab nay kaha paro koo chod doo, paro nai kaha sharab chod doo, Aur ekk din aye gaa woo …
Anthrax ji ne kaha Suggestions ka credit cho do, Admin team ne kaha FPD credit ka argument chod do, Dimers ne kaha post karna chod do aur ek din aayega woh kahenge DD ko hi chod do
Correction – Use ‘Chhod’ instead of ‘Chod’ …. otherwise meaning changes check pronunciation by speaking both yourself
So just to add !!
So once channels when they convert to groups, for top 3 groups of the month the owners will receive an x dimes….. so which will help the community of having better groups
Make it more #Communityfriendly
There should be some reward for silent dimers as well based on may be how long they stay logged in and contribute to deals whenever necessary…
+1
Ha ha!! You mean stronger rewards for those who have never managed (and may or may not manage in future) getting FPDs…
btw, guess its a separate aspect…something already there on those lines, but may be that too needs revisiting aka upgrade:)
Should actually be taken up sometime even if not as imp a (business) priority!!
What can we do with dimes? Pls reply
@anthrax.ut sir
Good step from dd side.
My suggestions are:-
1) A new thread, if deal is good, but not fpd, voted by atleast 2 sr. Dimers + 2 newbies, should be give min 5 dimes.
2) A new thread, if deal is good, made fpd, but not a loot should give 15 dimes.
3) A new thread, if deal is Loot, OOS within 3 minutes, but looted by few dimers & atleast 5-7 voted up & 2-3 commented loot. Should give 20 dimes & Fpd credit.
4) A new thread, if deal is Loot, not oos within 3 minutes & OOS after 5 minutes, but looted by few dimers & atleast 10 voted up & 10 commented. Should give atleast 30 dimes.
5) A new thread, if deal is big loot like pe example – Rs 10 product at Rs 1 like deal. If seller is Cloudtail India, Retailnet from amazon & Flipkart. Mostly voted up & commented . Deal should be fpd & give 50 dimes.
Please do consider some points few you like.
I will add more suggestions later.
+1 Good thinking
please release superdime like supercash…you ll save a lot
Good suggestion
Dimes can be linked to Zing Cash+
Silent dimers are not here for any reward & award.
Good initiative..
My simple suggestion:
Main points – The only authority with admins and mods should be – to see if users are misusing system and referring each other. The other one to give manual credits if you think deal was loot with damn votes .
Normal Deals:
Super Deal - 100 Dimes for select deals with 50 or more votes and 10000+ views. (Increase this to 200 dimes during festive sales)
Awesome Deal - 50 Dimes for threads with at least 20 votes and 5000+ views
Good Deal - 25 Dimes for rest FPDs
PE and Loot Deals:
Loot deals which aren’t promoted due to the fact they were available for limited time should be given 25 Dimes as FPD credit.
Loot Deals which are voted by at least 50 dimers and you feel that deal is more than Good deal should be given 50 or 100 dimes as you think fit.
Notes:
Note 1 – Karma is just trust rank between users so don’t differentiate between users while allotting dimes, have straight system, you may increase dimes during festive season.
Note 2 – If you feel I have mentioned way more dimes than your budget you may simply lower that but keep that this way > 1X 2X 4X (25:50:100)
@anthrax.ut so the job of admins like bumblefoot & nigel etc will be automated by this …. now they will not be the one who decide FPD but the automated system will??? If yes, then wao my dream is about to come true …. after this there will not be anymore rishtedari nibhaoing here …
Automatic merging of threads pointing to same/similar deals…
If you ask me
For 1000+° ?
https://www.desidime.com/forums/hot-deals-onlin...
it should award not only dime but also rank upgrade based on the heat, demand, discount price saved, loot type , etc, parameter by the algorithm.
Dimes + –
According 2 Product Quantity 2
Some say Error Loot and Redirect But Oooos
If You Looking for cost Cutting But still Have to Make Happy Dimers
I will Suggest 2 Introduce Super Dimes (Only 5% Can Use )
As
@Tejaa Suggested 100 Dimes uper Limit also possible in >100° Thread
Good Luck
cut employees it’s better, now every company is doing this
please remove dimes for posting deals…..
Many dimers income will get affected by this