At the start of every month, I like to take a step back and thank all the readers who provided helpful comments the previous month. I also like to highlight the best comments from that month and to reward those readers who did leave one of the best comments. The aim is to hopefully help readers that might have missed these great comments by highlighting them here and also to give each reader a $10 Amazon gift card that is mentioned below. If you were selected below, keep an eye out on your e-mails for the next few days for an e-mail from me.
In addition December was the first month we are trying something new. Each of the people selected below can choose one referral post to have their information ‘stickied’ to. This means your comment will be the top comment of that referral post (regardless of when you leave the comment). This should help get these people more referrals.
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Bank Bonuses
Deals
- A M sharing how to get an even more expensive pizza for free.
- CardCashGrab confirming that the Rakuten Apple Pay & Points deals stack. I don’t have apple pay so it wasn’t possible for me to do a test order.
- Reader1234 providing a detailed response from another reader asking what stock levels were like in Brooklyn. I always like to see readers going out of their way to help each other, that being said sometimes doing the foot work yourself is the best option (looks like reader1234 stocked up on the best items).
- EWR taking advantage of a promotion and then using that promotion to help others out. I love seeing this sort of stuff!
Misc
- CongestionCharge with this taco bell joke. I’m a simple man, I see some toilet humor and I laugh.
- Julian Banks coming back and reporting when they no longer need a link before. That American Express referral page is a madness, so it’s nice when people do little things like this.
Will and Chuck, even though they are awesome, don’t have the ability or time to check or test every possible aspect or situation on every offer/article. That particular comment was just me taking action and trying to find answers why Empower referrals wasn’t working. (and still not available today in my empower android app) Hopefully that one copy/paste would stop dozens of others from being frustrated and then blowing up tech support or DoC’s inbox with complaints.
This is just one way to give back to the site that has helped me so much!!! Collectively all the DoC readers have a vast amount of knowledge, so please speak up with constructive criticism, successes, hits and misses. I am absolutely amazed how well this site listens to their readers, so please take time to comment too when you have input!
This is a great idea and a great way to incentive thoughtful interactions. Thanks!
Have you guys thought about using a ranked commenting system like Disqus? It always takes a long time to load threaded comments on DoC (especially ones that go back several months) and I find that Disqus handles it really well. Would solve the “missing out on top comments” problem pretty easily, too.
Not a big fan of ranked commenting to be honest. Leads to a lot of people asking the same question and it being harder to find relevant information on older posts. We will likely introduce the possibility to upvote comments in the future, set the default to sort by oldest and give people the option to change that to their preference.
Just need to get caught up on a lot of other things and then I’ll get on it.
The stickied referral idea is a very good one. Props!
I think a stickied wiki (like Slickdeals has) is also a great idea