Kanyon71 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Win or not I love coming here and seeing all these threads active. This is as close to social media as I get, no FB, Snapchat, Twitter or any of that other stuff for me. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bribri25 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Win or not I love coming here and seeing all these threads active. This is as close to social media as I get, no FB, Snapchat, Twitter or any of that other stuff for me. 1000% agree. I do have Twitter and FB accounts, but don't post, follow, or like anything. I just use it for coupons and discounts and promotions.It's fun chatting/discussing with people on here things I actually care about vs. what color socks someone is wearing today, or whether they put the left or right one on first... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 1000% agree. I do have Twitter and FB accounts, but don't post, follow, or like anything. I just use it for coupons and discounts and promotions.It's fun chatting/discussing with people on here things I actually care about vs. what color socks someone is wearing today, or whether they put the left or right one on first...Right on. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossy1 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Kanyon...I cant wait to tell my children about you "IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE", someone besides their mother doesn't participate in social media(according to them GD does not count). Thanks to you I am no longer the only one of my species...LOL 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 29, 2016 Share Posted November 29, 2016 Kanyon...I cant wait to tell my children about you "IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE", someone besides their mother doesn't participate in social media(according to them GD does not count). Thanks to you I am no longer the only one of my species...LOLYa my family thinks I'm crazy not being on those things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 OK, here is the announcement you've all been waiting for. First, some info: There were 6,847 entries this year which includes the double entries in the "Posted Black Friday Ads" and "Online Black Friday Sales" subforums. The entries were spit out randomly from the database, and then randomized again on random.org. The first 5 to get returned were chosen as the winners. Here are the winners along with links to the actual posts that were chosen as winners: 1337417 - sweetdiggityhttp://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/268696-best-buy-black-friday-ad-posted/?p=13374171335317 - bribri25http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/266215-black-friday-live-2016-bigjimslade-update-post-51/?p=13353171333982 - bethedhttp://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/266208-how-do-you-save-for-black-friday/?p=13339821337758 - tracy0504http://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/268693-walmart-black-friday-ad-posted/?p=13377581339974 - sgigihttp://forums.gottadeal.com/topic/269238-kohls-online-black-friday-sale-discussion/?p=1339974 Congrats to the winners! Look for a PM from me soon to claim your prize. And to everyone else, there's always next time. Thanks for contributing to the discussion 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) Many congrats to those of you who won. You going to post up the top 5 or so posters and how many they posted like you did last year? Edited November 30, 2016 by Kanyon71 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 You going to post up the top 5 or so posters and how many they posted like you did last year? sweetdiggity - 14 entriesbribri25 - 493 entriesbethed - 22 entriestracy0504 - 149 entriessgigi - 2 entries (and they were both for the same post - lucky!) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Very cool bribri25 is tops again this year lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bribri25 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thanks Brad; and everyone. Like I've said, it's lots of fun discussing things with everyone here. Well, I may not have the most entries. He just put the # of entries for the winners. Brad, Kanyon is asking to see the members with the top 10 most entries and how many entries they had. I'm curious, too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Here's everyone with at least 100 entries: 493 bribri25406 kanyon71291 riven3d186 jaymacfla151 hanshotfirst150 bluebear149 tracy0504139 bopeep112 tigger97498107 jesusluvu107 elmck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 See bribri you talked more than even I did lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bribri25 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Lol. Apparently, so. I figured it would be close, though! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bopeep Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Congratulations to the winners - That's exciting! So, I'm not asking you to do any math that isn't already done. But, if you have them, I would be interested to know how many total posts there were, compared to last year. I see there was approximately 2000 difference for this contest purposes but that includes double entries. I guess I'm just curious if there was really that big a difference in participation this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jesusluvu Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Congrats to everyone who won... Don't stop now lets continue through out the year -- I am lonely on here all by myself. But please believe I will be winning next year.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 Congratulations to the winners - That's exciting! So, I'm not asking you to do any math that isn't already done. But, if you have them, I would be interested to know how many total posts there were, compared to last year. I see there was approximately 2000 difference for this contest purposes but that includes double entries. I guess I'm just curious if there was really that big a difference in participation this year.If you include the holiday discussion forum (easier to do the math since we archive them all together), last year had about 8,300 posts. This year we're currently around 6,500. Things have been dropping, and it's happening to most forums on all topics as a lot of discussion happens on Facebook now. For example, the main 'Walmart BF ad posted' thread on here had 56 replies. The corresponding post on our FB page had 579 comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Facebook is evil EEEEEEVIL I tell ya 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 It is, which is why we try what we can (contests, etc...) to keep the forum active each year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bopeep Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 If you include the holiday discussion forum (easier to do the math since we archive them all together), last year had about 8,300 posts. This year we're currently around 6,500. Things have been dropping, and it's happening to most forums on all topics as a lot of discussion happens on Facebook now. For example, the main 'Walmart BF ad posted' thread on here had 56 replies. The corresponding post on our FB page had 579 comments.Wow! I shared several of the FB posts, but my thought was "Hey - y'all go to Gottadeal.com and check this out!" LOL. They should know how much easier it is to find the discussion if they come here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 I mean, even a huge site like Slickdeals had less than 9,000 posts in their BF forum this year and they have many times the number of members that we do.As BF becomes more "boring" there just isn't as much to discuss year after year. The novelty of the day has worn off - it's why there is much less news coverage when ads get leaked, or when people line up days ahead.Now it's more about that 8 day stretch staring Monday before Thanksgiving and going until Cyber Monday. That's when the deals are and there's a pretty big drop in the number of deals available now compared to last week. And since online deals isn't "sexy" and you can't show funny clips of people fighting to get online deals, there isn't much coverage of it in the media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I mean, even a huge site like Slickdeals had less than 9,000 posts in their BF forum this year and they have many times the number of members that we do. As BF becomes more "boring" there just isn't as much to discuss year after year. The novelty of the day has worn off - it's why there is much less news coverage when ads get leaked, or when people line up days ahead. Now it's more about that 8 day stretch staring Monday before Thanksgiving and going until Cyber Monday. That's when the deals are and there's a pretty big drop in the number of deals available now compared to last week. And since online deals isn't "sexy" and you can't show funny clips of people fighting to get online deals, there isn't much coverage of it in the media.I would say there could be videos of them furiously clicking and refreshing and then trying to check out before the item is sold out. Then I thought. What did I look like and what was I wearing at 12am-4am when I was doing stuff and figured for the sake of all humanity those videos should not be released. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bribri25 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 I had no idea there was even discussion happening on FB. That's crazy. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy0504 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Thank you, Brad!!!! This is really going to help me out this year!!!! I had some unforeseen car repairs last week and didn't know how much BF/Christmas shopping I would be able to do this year...this is AWESOME and will help me purchase the rest of my gifts... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msyves Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 Congratulations to all the winners, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kash Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Congrats to the winners! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 I've only heard back from 2 of the 5 winners so far. Hope the others get on here soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanyon71 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 You know if you need someone to take one for the team and take those other 3 for you I guess I can do it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
speeddiva Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 You know if you need someone to take one for the team and take those other 3 for you I guess I can do it. Yeah, that ^^^ [emoji23] 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bossy1 Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 As much as I hate to add more shopping to my list...For you Brad I'd make the sacrifice and take one of those unclaimed cards off your overburdened hands...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hockeyfanamo Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Congratulations everyone! Thanks for all that you do, Brad! Sent from my SM-T217S using GottaDeal mobile app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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