What's the point of tips and guides?

bighairytoe

Most of it is being copy and pasted across from https://www.hotukdeals.com. That website is dedicate to offers. Since when getting 2p off a tin of beans mobile related?

stacydan2468

bighairytoe it’s a tip no?

claire1uk

bighairytoe

There is every point to this thread.

It's very informative in putting members in touch with offers, tips and guides for many subjects.

Not everyone knows about the offers and just because it's cut n pasted, doesn't mean that's a bad thing.
It's better to show the information, than not.

🤗🤗

isabel1066

bighairytoe . Since when getting 2p off a tin of beans mobile-related?

Just for you https://www.hotukdeals.com/tag/mobile-phone

tonic98

bighairytoe there’s some good tips now and then that don’t know of so it comes in handy to check here

keithctaylor

bighairytoe I think most of the Tips and guides are useful. But I hate when people just paste a link without sharing details or opinions about the deal.

pete2009

bighairytoe
Personally think tips and guides is ok.
Cheers

bluemoonbaz

bighairytoe
That’s no always the case I post deals as I see them and most are one I find myself .
Yes others may highlight offers available on other sites but is that an issue ,?
These members are sharing what they find with this community and @kathleen414 provides us a fantastic daily / monthly round up https://community.giffgaff.com/d/33127396-welcome-to-the-2020-members-hot-deals-tips-june-2020
Also tips and guides is a seperate section
Hot deals and tips is https://community.giffgaff.com/t/hot-deals-and-tips
I personally think it should have it’s on section and not a sub heading

dtuxcomp

I can’t speak to C&P tips but I do have several tips threads and a tips menu there so I’d say please don’t get rid of it, it took me ages to put them all together, some are simple one-offs and others are guides that evolve as there’s interest shown. I know many other members post great content in there as well.

If it’s useful info to someone who might not have seen it otherwise, I’d call it a tip. Isn’t there a dedicated section for hot deals etc though ?

jjanssen

I have posted free to enter competitions from B&M and notifications of eBay maximum £1 sellers fees. Those are good tips.

harrrrrry

Anybody who doesn’t want to see Tips and Guides can go to https://community.giffgaff.com/t/tips-and-guides and change the “Following” dropdown to “Hiding”. That will mean that T&G posts do not show in an All Discussions display.

The problem with that is that T&G probably ought to be split into two parts:

those that are about giffgaff
those that are about something else

That would give the choice of hiding the “something else” posts without missing those about giffgaff.

kathleen414

harrrrrry The problem with that is that T&G probably ought to be split into two parts:

those that are about giffgaff
those that are about something else

That would give the choice of hiding the “something else” posts without missing those about giffgaff.

Hiya Harry it’s what was asked for when the new section were put in place
Unfortunately we ended up with our well used Hot deals and tips as a sub heading

garybo

isabel1066 great link

darren1900

isabel1066 awesome link

munglespoon

I think you are right to question the role of this section and the quality of a lot of the ideas and offers that people are sharing. I do not understand the way that on this site everybody wants to pull down anybody that comes with a new idea or a voice that tells you giffgaff is doing something wrong.

mcilwraith

i dont see the point of starting a thread where the members are quite happy posting and reading tips and guides
i for one never go to hotdeals unless its something ive seen on here that might interest me

harrrrrry

kathleen414 we ended up with our well used Hot deals and tips as a sub heading

Have you tried setting Tips and Guides to Followed and setting the Hot Deals subtag to Not Followed? I think you would then only Tips and Guides in All Discussions, without seeing those with the Hot Deals subtag.

That does assume that the members who post deals add the subtag, which may not always be the case. But the eds will fix occasional mistakes and remind the member if they make a habit of it.